Results 25,101-25,120 of 34,956 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy is quite right. While we will publish the letter, the committee is dissatisfied with the response. We will come back to the matter because we will be discussing housing after the Christmas break. We will see what mechanism can be used in having some people who are on the front line dealing with this issue because they deal with the housing assistance payment, HAP, the rental...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: And we might.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy is quite right. Our second letter specifically stated that individual chief executives of some local authorities might come, not representing the County and City Management Association, CCMA, but in their own capacity to help us. That option is still available and we will discuss it again. They may not come wearing the CCMA hat, but we need to see the chief executives of some...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Sick leave, yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Some of them could be as a result of assaults.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: There are many of them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: There is an excellent chart at the end of that document. It shows the number of days lost in each Department with the average being ten. There are clearly some outliers and some Departments with very low numbers of days lost to sick leave based on the 2017 figures. We will publish that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Officials from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection will be here in half an hour. After the Prison Service, that Department's level of sick leave is second highest at 13. We can put that question to the Secretary General as soon as the witnesses come in.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will come back to that topic. The Department recently issued a report on the operation of protected disclosures. It was one of the poorest reports I have ever seen published. It had no engagement with any person who had made a protected disclosure. It looked like a desktop exercise among senior officials. We will come back to that. We have noted it before.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We can address the absences with the line Departments as the officials come along. We have no problem coming back to that issue again. We note and publish that. Correspondence No. 1743 is from the chief executive officer of IDA Ireland, providing information requested by the committee regarding the annual employment survey. We had asked for details of the annual employment survey....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: It would be the CEO.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: What is the confirmation process?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: The letter states it is carried out by an agency on behalf of IDA Ireland and not by the organisation directly. We can ask for more specific details on verification of the figures. Correspondence No. 1744 is from the chief executive of HIQA, providing an update requested by the committee on HIQA's examination of the cost of agency staff. In that letter, he says there has been a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will get the copy of the workforce plan.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, that is very important. The next letter was from the HSE confirming that the findings and recommendations of the Hannaway report took the form of a presentation. We had asked for a fully copy of the report but the HSE says there is only a slide presentation and that is the full extent of the report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Nothing else seems to have been prepared.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We should also ask whether when the report was presented minutes were taken of the presentation and the discussion on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: There was a slide presentation but there must have been some discussion on that. Perhaps a minute was taken.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, those that were relevant to that. No. 1748 is correspondence received from the Revenue Commissioners and dated 26 November providing clarification. We spotted a wrong decimal point of a matter of 100 million in one of their letters - a part of our periodic report - and they have corrected the figures. We will publish a report next week and the correct figures will be in it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes. I think the amount in dispute was €7.01 million but it should have been counted in hundred millions.