Results 21-29 of 29 for "direct provision" speaker:Seán Fleming

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: Okay, that is fine. On Thursday, 13 April we will meet the Department of Justice and Equality to discuss the Department's Vote and the procurement and management of contracts for the direct provision system. That meeting has not been fully confirmed as yet but that is the plan. We are meeting the Department of Justice and Equality today but that is strictly to deal with the prisons issue....

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: ...Dunamase school has opened on a temporary site. I ask Mr. O'Toole to send an update in writing to the committee on the status of that next week. Pages 70 and 71 of the accounts have the title, Direct Provision of Funding (Further Education Grants) - Breakdown of Grants by Programme as Reported by the Education and Training Boards. I ask Mr. O'Toole to explain the rationale; he may...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Act 2014: Motions (1 Apr 2015)

Seán Fleming: ...the Department of Justice and Equality is that third party FOI requests would have the potential to delay judicial reviews of the organisations' decision making, giving rise to significant additional cost and direct provision". That is the real reason for the change, but the Minister studiously dropped that sentence from his statement today. Some will agree with him, but I did not think...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: .... Robert Watt, Secretary General, Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, dated 22 May 2019, provides comparative information requested by the committee regarding the cost of accommodating individuals in direct provision centres and in nursing homes under the fair deal scheme. We will note and publish this. It relates to how much money someone residing in a nursing home can retain...

Topical Issue Debate: Community Employment Schemes Funding (16 Apr 2014)

Seán Fleming: ...be centralised in the county and I want to acknowledge everything the Minister of State has said so far, which tallies exactly with the information I have been given. There are 33 places for the direct provision of child care and 17 places are allocated for child care support. The most important sentence from the Minister of State, which I will repeat, is: "An additional training budget...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...a follow-up note on a number of matters, including the probation service building; costs associated with two protected disclosures; the numbers of people accommodated in commercial and State-owned direct provision centres; sections to be commenced in the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act; the Bridge Project; and the process and systems to raise matters with the Minister. We will...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: ..., Community and Local Government because there is a chapter there about funding for local authorities and progress under the land aggregation schemes. There will be a meeting on procurement and management of contracts for direct provision, with the Department of Justice and Equality. There will also be a discussion of EU refunds and levies in the agriculture sector. There is nothing...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Apr 2017)

Seán Fleming: ...with Bord na gCon. On 11 May 2017, we will deal with the Department of Justice and Equality appropriation accounts for 2015. There is a specific chapter dealing with the procurement and management of contracts for direct provision. Sometime around the date of the last meeting, we noted the report by An Garda Síochána into the Templemore issue. There is also the issue of the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: ...the national debt and financial position. The Department of Justice and Equality will be here on Thursday, 13 April, to deal with the normal Vote plus the procurement and management of contracts for direct provision. I have a note of further items listed that we will give dates for in due course, for example, HSE section 38 and section 39 organisations. Procurement issues come up...