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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes, it was a published statement by the Minister of State in the line Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: My view on it is this - we are in an open society and anybody is entitled to criticise our work, including line Ministers or any member of the public if they do not think we are doing a good job. People have the right to criticise us. We are not above criticism. In the press release by the Minister of State, Deputy Halligan, he also warned that any incorrect suggestions of impropriety...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will ask him if he can back it up. We will ask him to explain and verify his statement and if he cannot he should withdraw that aspect of the statement. However, he is entitled to make remarks.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: My view on it is-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: This press release appears to have come from the Department. I do not who DJEI is.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: This has come from a Department. We have a job here and we do not take kindly to Ministers or Ministers of State trying to cut across our work. I would put it this way. If he had issued it from this own constituency office-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: This is from the Department. The Deputy might want us to take it up with the senior Minister as well. I do not mind. We want that clarified.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: Issued a statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: That is the issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: Pardon?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will not go there yet.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: That is an option.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: Okay, we will do that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: That is not a coincidence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes, individual members.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will write directly to the Minister in the Department to clarify his statement. Do we write to the senior Minister?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will write to the senior Minister because this has come from the Department, not from the Minister of State's constituency office. Okay, we will move on. On the next item on the agenda, the last day we had a discussion here about the timeliness of the accounts being presented to us and we were on the verge of sending Waterford Institute of Technology and all the organisations here...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: Our point here on the last occasion related to the specific six we had in because some of those were the serious outliers. We refer specifically to those. What the Comptroller and Auditor General might assist us with is - it is public knowledge but not member seems to know about it - this idea that they all are doing two sets of audits. It tripped out that Galway had KPMG doing an audit...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: Is that a cash basis versus accruals?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: Did that include the subsidiaries? Did both audits?