Results 19,381-19,400 of 34,779 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness at the committee. No apologies have been received. The first item on the agenda is the minutes of the meetings of 11 and 18 May 2017. Are they agreed to? Agreed. As there is nothing specific arising from them that will not come up in our discussion of items further down the agenda, we...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: Does the Deputy propose to send on directly-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: I do not know the answer to that question, but we will have the matter clarified.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: We have not concentrated on it until now. We will inquire whether it is included in the terms of reference and formally write to it again on the issue. The next items are Nos. 520B.1 and 2 from the Secretary General of the Department of Education and Skills, Seán Ó Foghlú, regarding Caranua's accommodation. There was a debate in the Dáil yesterday on this issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: It did, regarding the date. In correspondence, item No. 517C, Ms Mary Higgins, CEO of Caranua, corrected a statement made at the meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts on 13 April 2017. For the record, Caranua had rent-free accommodation from 2013 to May 2016, not 2017, as had been indicated.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Comptroller and Auditor General might give us his observations.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: Let the Comptroller-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: We need to write to the OPW to ask what brought about the change in approach from earlier years to 2016. It was not charging rent in the earlier period and the OPW seemed to change its approach.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will conclude this. We will write to the OPW to ask it to explain its change in policy. That is for the OPW to answer directly to this committee. The second letter will be directed to Caranua to clarify the evidence. We will check the transcript. If its representative indicated it had not paid up until 2016-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: There is a revised letter today.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes, she had the wrong date. Okay, that is clarified. Given that there must have been some contract resulting in them taking on that payment in 2016, did they get the Minister's consent for the contract? We will ask the Department the same question. Caranua is not in the new premises and the documentation has not gone in. We will ask the OPW to clarify the change of attitude and Caranua...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: The legislation may not agree with the Deputy's sentiment.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: That is what we want to know.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: And costs.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: That is agreed. The next item of correspondence is No. 521B, correspondence date 23 May from Mr. Ray Mitchell from the Health Service Executive, HSE, regarding questions put to the HSE relating to the Grace case and evidence given by the director general. May we note this for the moment as we will be coming back to it? People have it and we will be talking to Mr. O'Brien about that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is a fair comment.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: That was a formal investigation, with documentation in the room. There was no leak from that committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes. Should we write to the Committee on Procedure and Privileges to outline our concerns? A member of the Committee of Public Accounts is responsible for this leak. Should we ask that committee to write to each individual member? I can ask people, but if the CPP would point out the responsibility of members separately it might help. There are two concerns. The first is that the slant of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: We did.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will get out the correspondence. We eventually took the matter into our own hands and did not circulate any further electronic copies. We only handed them out. We had to do that ourselves. That is not possible with weekly correspondence, however.