Results 16,241-16,260 of 34,778 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: The board is implementing this and we want to know why. We want to know the basis of the decisions and how they are implemented.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: The next item is a letter from Deputy McGuinness, Chairman of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform and Taoiseach, stating that committee is looking at the Paradise Papers and the issue of corporation tax. We have noted it. We are carrying on with our work. There is a chapter in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report on corporation tax. It is our duty to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will write indicating we received the correspondence and ask for a reply to the email we have received. We will take it from there. No. 930C is correspondence from an individual with further questions for NAMA in respect of the sale of a hotel in Cork. I propose that we forward it to NAMA. We have done that before. We have got replies back. We have sent them out. They are back...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: The individual maintains it could be a criminal offence to impersonate a Revenue official. It may be a criminal offence to set up a customs post if it is bogus. I have no idea what is behind this. If the person has something to say and believes an offence has been committed, the matter should be reported to the Garda rather than us. On we go. Deputy Deering is surprised at the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: He is the person conducting the investigation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: It looks as if Professor Thorn is saying that he will have his work done at the end of January 2018. We will note that and will include it for consideration in our work programme for 2018.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: There is. We will deal with it next week. Correspondence was sent to me and to the secretariat yesterday. A member of the ETB phoned me directly in my office.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: I am.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: I am told that people referred to by an initial in the report contacted the secretariat, but they did not want the issue to be public. The secretariat advised that if the persons wanted to contact individual members of the committee, they should please do so.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: My understanding is that the correspondence is now being sent to some members of the committee, whoever they choose to contact.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: If they choose. The issue is not now before the Committee of Public Account except if a member raises it at the committee and brings it back to us. They might not have wanted it to be discussed in public when they wrote in. We advised them to contact individual members.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: I said something else there as well. I took a phone call from a member of the Kildare and Wicklow ETB and she sent me an email expressing difficulties on how the board was operating and in connection with the evidence provided, principally by the chairman of the board to the committee when he appeared before us. She raised health and safety issues in some of the schools and included some...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Some members may have received correspondence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes, we are getting advice. There was a reference to High Court proceedings.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes, because it concerns procurement. I think this is about the building of a school.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will. It is not before us today because we want to take legal advice before we bring the letter to the committee. It just arrived and we will come back to it. The next item on the agenda, which is on the screen, the accounts and statements received since-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Which nursing home?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: We have had a response from Deloitte. We got a letter of a couple of pages yesterday evening. It will be on the agenda for the next meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: We are still awaiting for the details of that. The Deloitte letter will be on the agenda for discussion at our next meeting. We did not get a chance to circulate the letter in time for the meeting. The next issue on the agenda is financial statements received since the last meeting The United States Commission for Education Exchange has a clear audited opinion on €1.2 million and...