Results 20,641-20,660 of 34,956 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will. We asked them to leave during the previous meeting and when they returned, due to the paucity of information and lack of post-project reviews, we made it abundantly clear on the day that we would not complete our work until we received all the necessary information and we would return to that. We have made a point of not signing off any appropriation account this year that has a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: Every legal challenge delays the process by a year or two, which prevents the much needed public service that is required as part of that contract being available to the public.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: There is no evidence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: It might be, but there is no evidence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: It might be true but it might be false. We do not know, and nobody can tell us except to make the bland statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: Possibly, yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: One or the other.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will conclude. We will certainly have a deeper session on the PPPs. We will discuss it in the context of the work programme. What we will do, as part of our work programme, is take half an hour or an hour in private session to try to work out how we want to approach that and the type of questions we want to raise. We might need an external adviser to assist us in some way in our work...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: That is another day's work.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: I am sorry I opened up that hornet's nest.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: Okay, okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: Anyway, that is good. There are good mixed views on that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: Okay. It is a big issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: The matter under our remit, which is PPPs. The rest is under the Ceann Comhairle's remit. The question of the PPPs is the big issue. We have got a foot in the door that nobody has succeeded in previously-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: -----and we now have to shove the door open. We must plan how we go about it. We will discuss that in private session but we will be coming back to it in detail. Is that agreed? Agreed. The next item of correspondence is item 1237B from the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Donohoe, dated 18 April 2018. Following receipt of the minute provided by the Minister to the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: A private site.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: Kerdiffstown is the private site on which the Deputy wants details as to why it is not on the list. The Deputy also wants details of what is being funded directly, by the Department or by the local authority-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: -----or by the EPA, and on a local authority by local authority basis, on remediating public sites as well. We will write to the Department directly on that. The next item-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: I do not have the letter in front of me.