Results 17,841-17,860 of 34,778 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes, we will link the two. Is that agreed? Agreed. We move to the next item. There have been clear audit opinions for the Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority, the Property Service Compensation Fund, the Citizens Information Board and the Public Trustee Account, which is the finance account for the State. The National Treasury Management Agency accounts also have a clear...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Next week there will be a chapter in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report on the NTMA. That annual account dealt with the administration account, the national debt account, the State Claims Agency account, the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, the Post Office Savings Bank Fund and the National Pensions Reserve Fund. The National Pensions Reserve Fund is to be dissolved after...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Does it happen anywhere outside health?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: I thought it might have been across the board.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Those are the general accounting standards. The Comptroller and Auditor General is saying we have to write to the Secretary General of the Department of Health for a list of all bodies under its remit.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Where the accounts are drawn up not only in accordance with the standards.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: That is what we are seeking. We shall see. There is no point in our reviewing accounts and thinking we have the full picture when there is a section in the legislation setting up that body which states that it does not need to show anything in its annual accounts that anybody would expect it to show. I want to see what we are missing - that is all that I am asking. Will the Comptroller...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: The secretariat will work from there and we will send letters out. The next item relates to clear audit opinions in respect of the Health Insurance Authority, the risk equalisation fund, the National Disability Authority, the Irish Blood Transfusion Service, the Medical Council, the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board - I think we said that we might talk to representatives...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: HIQA?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes, we are proposing to have representatives from HIQA come before us.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Our friends from the Waterford Institute of Technology have just sent their 2015 accounts to us. Are they not fantastic? Two years later.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will write to them. Have we a date for the 2016 accounts? We gave them a roasting on that when they were here. We will write to them to ask for a date for when the 2016 accounts will be ready for audit.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Galway is in the same category.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: NUIG.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: What about NUIG?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: It has only just completed its 2015 accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Great. In other words, the third-level institutions got a little rap on the knuckles from us and are now smartening themselves up to get their accounts in at last.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is the last one on the list; I jumped the gun there. We will come to it in a second. The next one up is the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: That is normal for a public-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: That is grand. The next item concerns Athlone Institute of Technology and Limerick Institute of Technology and involves the same point. The final one is the National University of Ireland Galway. The 2015 accounts-----