Results 2,801-2,820 of 34,778 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: The Chairman will be delighted to hear that this is my final question. Are there payments for attending parent-teacher meetings? Are teachers obliged to attend such meetings outside school hours? What was the outcome of the last benchmarking exercise in the context of teachers' pay? Did those who carried it out conclude that allowances are part of such pay or that teachers would be...
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: I have a final point emerging from what Mr. Burke said. He mentioned an extra 33 hours per annum that the Department had negotiated with teachers under the Croke Park agreement to do work outside school hours. Will those 33 hours be lost when the Croke Park deal ends in 15 months time?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: The Croke Park deal will expire. I am being upfront on this. If the Department has a provision negotiated under the Croke Park agreement, it is for a maximum period of four years as that is when the agreement will expire. How does Mr. Burke reasonably expect this provision would continue after the agreement expires? How could the Department even contemplate that it would continue after...
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: What about in the teachers' agreement? Has the Department been made aware of this issue?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: Mr. Burke can understand my asking about this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: One would assume that when the agreement expires everything under it will also expire. Mr. Burke might come back to us with his view on that and we will put that to representatives of congress when they appear before the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Functions of NAMA: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: I welcome the delegates to the meeting. I wish to raise a number of topics. NAMA completed two business plans earlier this year. How many plans are there? Mr. McDonagh said in his opening statement that NAMA had referred two cases to the fraud squad as the debtors had not adequately disclosed information to NAMA. Are these business plans completed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Functions of NAMA: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: I wish to recap. I refer to the par value of the loans versus what NAMA paid for them. I ask the delegates to describe the percentage write-down. What is the par value?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Functions of NAMA: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: I wish to refer to a few items in NAMA's quarterly accounts - the section 55 NAMA accounts presented to the Minister. Both Mr. Daly and Mr. McDonagh signed the statement on 21 September. The quarterly report on the accounts for the second quarter is for the period up to 30 June 2012. On that date the amount due to NAMA on debtor loans was €72.4 billion. The NAMA book value of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Functions of NAMA: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: Yes, on these specific points.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Functions of NAMA: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: We will not talk about the matter of interest today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Functions of NAMA: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: I understand that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Functions of NAMA: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: Yes, that is fine. I am pleased that NAMA still has some money available in the first six months for current impairments. Up to now, it has been addressing those impairments at the end of each year. I have two other questions to ask in respect of this particular document.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Functions of NAMA: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: I am moving faster than most other members. I am not making speeches, I am posing straight questions. Will our guests indicate the purpose of the IBRC repurchase agreement scheme of €15 million? This is detailed on page 12. People will be intrigued why NAMA was obliged to take the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to the District Court in Longford to obtain an order of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Functions of NAMA: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: We know that. I would ask NAMA to go easy on the Minister in the future.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Functions of NAMA: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: Could the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform not have volunteered the key to the building to NAMA?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Functions of NAMA: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: Is it often the case that companies with which NAMA is dealing are struck off?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Functions of NAMA: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: I had not heard that before.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Functions of NAMA: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: How many of the 800 companies involved in NAMA's business cases have been struck off and no longer exist?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Functions of NAMA: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Seán Fleming: Was NAMA required to go to the District Court in circumstances where it wanted to access the properties of any of those former companies?