Results 23,901-23,920 of 34,956 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: That is fine and our job is to keep public pressure on this and to keep the Tax Appeals Commission hopping because these things can just rumble on for years. We have a duty to ensure we do that, especially now that resources have been allocated to do the job. We only highlighted the top 67 in our meeting and there are thousands more smaller cases behind in the system, but the 67 cases are...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Would many of these be corporate?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Dividend withholding tax is mentioned as well. Then there is some income tax.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We might for a recasting of the schedules under each of the tax settings, just to save our overworked staff from having to do it. We have the document here. The relevant authorities have the information on a spreadsheet. We will ask them to break the schedule down and give us the amounts under VAT, income tax, corporation tax and dividend withholding tax. We will ask for a recasting of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will get the information. The €750 million is in the context of approximately €60 billion collected by the Revenue Commissioners every year. Out of the €60 billion, we are talking about less than €1 billion, which is probably much less than 2%. I am not making light of it but putting it in the context of what the Revenue Commissioners do. I am putting the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will publish this. It will be followed up. We will return to it specifically when we recast the schedule. We will ask for target dates for having the matter concluded. That may not happen because every one of the people affected can go to court at the end of the process, if they like. That is not within anyone's control. We found a lacuna in the information between the Tax Appeals...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We have discussed this for long enough and we know we are coming back to it. It was useful to receive the letter. The next item is No. 1644B, from Mr. Michael Horgan of the Higher Education Authority, responding to the committee's request for a copy of Dr. Graham Love's resignation letter. Since the letter was received, the HEA sent a further email advising that Dr. Love authorised...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Someone got there in front of this committee. I was just made aware of it recently. We will publish it because it has already been made available. No. 1645B is from Mr. Robert Watt, Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, replying to information requested by the committee regarding PPP reviews. We will note and publish this and raise it with the Secretary...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is available, noted and published. It is already on the public record by way of parliamentary question. We will publish it here again. The next item on our agenda concerns statements and accounts received since the last meeting. There are seven, the first of which relates to the National Concert Hall. There is a clear audited opinion. Attention is drawn to the recognition of an...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: There was nothing paid out of the fund in 2017.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Is it expected that any will be paid out or is that all done through Caranua?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: There was none that year.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We should write to whoever is in charge and ask for a projection in regard to potential future claims to be paid through the account. While there might have been none in the year in question, there may be many in the system. We will write to the chief executive or Accounting Officer asking for an update.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: What we will do then is circulate the Financial Statements among the members of the committee. If we have any questions, we will come back to them next week. We have circulated such information on one or two occasions. It is useful.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We are coming back to that because we have asked-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: At our previous meeting, we asked that a note be written to the Department. It had informed us in correspondence over the summer that a number of transactions were to be completed by the end of September and we agreed to write to it last week, or a week earlier, to ask for an update on whether this actually happened. This arose out of the correspondence we received. We will get an update...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Wonderful. It is a clear audit opinion. The Arts Council also received a clear audit opinion but, in his report, the Comptroller and Auditor General states:Attention is drawn to weaknesses in the controls over grant payments. The Council has made provision for payments of €196,000 due in relation to grants awarded in 2017 under an arts programme. The Council had provided funding for...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will get detail. We will write to the Arts Council for a far more comprehensive note on this than that which Mr. McCarthy read from the annual report. It sounds a bit like Console where an organisation was funded and then when it went into liquidation people were left. It appears as thought the situation is a mini version of that relating to Console.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We are going to write to the council seeking details. The message is that the council had €196,000 less to give to people who should have got funding-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is going to make it up but the money will have been paid on the double.