Results 16,121-16,140 of 34,778 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Mr. Barrett has gone down that road of other issues twice now. We are here only to discuss this one unit.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Can I just ask-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Chair is in possession.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: We are.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy has made a request.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: I will not instruct the acting Garda Commissioner to be quiet. He is the Accounting Officer here today and as Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts I decide-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: I ask Mr. Barrett for a very precise answer. Twice he has been asked a question and he has strayed beyond it immediately.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: I am not asking Mr. Barrett any question.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Okay then, I am going to ask the question-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Mr. Barrett said finance.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Did Mr. Barrett have any further concerns that might be relevant to the attention of the Committee for Public Accounts?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: I am ruling as Chairman that we are now moving on. With regard to the financial issue, I want to draw the attention of everybody here and everybody watching to the fact that we have the Accounting Officer of the Department of Justice and Equality here. He is responsible to the Oireachtas for the Vote and he gave verbal sanction to this matter. A letter subsequently arrived. We also have...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: We have spent 40 minutes on this and we have other business to address. We are now moving on to look at the matter of the re-opening of Garda stations. At this point I will ask acting Garda Commissioner Ó Cualáin to deliver the rest of his opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: On the Garda station-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Until 10.30 a.m., and then we can move on to the main business after that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: The main business is chapter 12. I am flexible on the time but the main business is chapter 12 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's annual report and the management of ancillary services at the Garda Síochána College. In view of the fact that we invited people in on that, we said we would allow a specific time at the beginning of the session to address what we just discussed...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Will we agree to go to 10.30 a.m.?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will move on to the main chapter at 10.30 a.m.
- Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: I ask acting Garda Commissioner Ó Cualáin to make his complete opening statement. When we are finished with the Stepaside issue, I will ask the Comptroller and Auditor General to introduce his chapter at 10.30 a.m., which is the main agenda item of today's meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: We have approximately 45 minutes left for this session and speakers have indicated in the following sequence - Deputies Alan Kelly, David Cullinane and Marc MacSharry. Can we confine it to three speakers for this particular topic? Fine. Deputies have a maximum of 15 minutes each.