Results 32,021-32,040 of 34,956 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (19 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: 211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the reason a person (details supplied) cannot get a primary school place will be investigated; if a school place will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47723/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (19 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: 400. To ask the Minister for Health the discussions or consideration given to remove services from a hospital (details supplied); if consideration is being given to outsourcing the service; if a role for the National Treatment Purchase Fund is being considered in the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47481/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (19 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: 408. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there has been a disregard for the employment rights of existing contract holding consultant pathologists (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47520/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (19 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: 422. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide clinical evidence to support outsourcing of services from a hospital; if a risk analysis has been undertaken to evaluate the possible adverse events arising from same and the consultation involved to date (details supplied); the discussions on the issue to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47588/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (19 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: 423. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there has been no regard for existing INAB accreditation service level agreements; the reason no consideration has been given to the wider implications of undermining existing services in the midlands region in particular reputational damage to his Department at the hospital (details supplied); the effect that this will have on the provision of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, as a permanent witness to the committee and he is joined by Ms Maureen Mulligan, senior auditor. No apologies have been received for today's meeting. We need to agree minutes for previous meetings. We met on Tuesday, 5 November regarding greenhouse gas and financial transactions with witnesses from the Economic...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We have received the geographical breakdown, but not the breakdown of whether the claims are from staff members or members of the public.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will certainly do that. That is noted and published. We will follow that up. No. 2546 is on the school transport scheme. It contains two sentences which I find almost mutually contradictory. It is from Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú, Secretary General, Department of Education and Skills, dated 8 November responding to our request on whether Bus Éireann's auditors are satisfied...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: The Comptroller and Auditor General has been all over this and produced a special report. I ask him to explain how the Department is claiming there is not a surplus and that it is just cost recovery, yet Bus Éireann repaid an uncommitted reserve to the Department. It is either one or the other.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Is that because it has handed it back?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: This is like discussing the number of angels dancing on the head of a pin. It has excess money and is saying it is a surplus, but because it handed it back, it was never a profit. Is that what it is saying?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Does anyone understand that? This is pedantic in the extreme.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will write back to the Department asking it to explain that. I just do not understand it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: I have no particular issue, I just do not follow the letter. Over what period was this surplus, as we will call it, and that ultimately was repaid to the Department built up? What about the company deciding to return it to the Department? Was that the work of the Comptroller and Auditor General? Had his office not done it, was it going to keep this money in its own bank account year on...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will go back to the Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: It should be where?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We might deal with that in a periodic report in some respects.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is not the core.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is a fair point.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: And what brought about the identification of the issue?