Results 27,761-27,780 of 34,956 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: Could Mr. McCarthy send us a note on that because there are many people in various communities watching the proceedings and one of their main concerns about the guidelines not coming through is that the old policy, which was drafted a long time ago, is now the basis on which local authorities have to make a decision. When were the existing guidelines introduced?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: Mr. McCarthy will understand the reason for concern. In 2006 a big wind turbine was 30 m high, now they are 186 m high. They bear zero relationship to turbines that have been going through the planning process in respect to the guidelines that local authorities are obliged to use. Somebody in the Department has not been fair to either the communities or the local authorities, expecting...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: That is a new issue I had not heard about previously. Is that in connection with noise?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: It did not deal with the flicker from the blades but noise.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: I thank the witnesses for their time. Much of what was said is of interest to the public. Our job as the Committee of Public Accounts is not just to interrogate the figures but to help the public understanding of what goes on and to get information out. People who are interested in this area will have picked up information during the day. That is part of what we are doing here. I thank...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (5 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: 300. To ask the Minister for Health when a psychological report will be carried out on a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10442/19]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: We are joined today by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness at the committee. He is joined by Mr. Mark Brady, the deputy director of audit. Apologies have been received from Deputy Pat Deering. I propose we postpone dealing with the business of the committee and meet directly with the Secretary General of the Department of Public...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: No, it was from the Secretary General of the Department. All the communication is through the Accounting Officer. As is normal, the Accounting Officer decides whom he or she brings to the meeting. We have never refused to accept a witness that an Accounting Officer wanted to bring. There is respect on both sides. If an Accounting Officer brings in witnesses we respect those witnesses but...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: To Mr. Watt.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: The correspondence was to Mr. Watt.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: I have not decided anything. I made an observation the same as the Deputy is doing.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: Not at all. There is only one person-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: For information-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: Utterly. To ensure that people are aware, I, as Chairperson, wish to state that the only person required to appear at a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts is the Accounting Officer.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: I will answer the question.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: The official position as laid down - and not by me, I am just outlining it - is that the only person answerable to this committee is the Accounting Officer. No one else is accountable. An Accounting Officer is free to come on his or her own if he or she so chooses. Regularly, they bring officials with them to assist the progress of the meeting but that is at the behest of the Accounting...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: I am giving it to the Deputy straight.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: Let me finish. I am trying to put the matter on the public record. There is a practice of Accounting Officers coming in here and bringing people with them. There have been several occasions when we named people we would like to accompany an Accounting Officer. On all such occasions previously, there was that level of co-operation and that person came but, technically, it was always at the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: Those are the rules and we work with co-operation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: He can do so.