Results 19,881-19,900 of 34,956 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service Staff (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: 201. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the process used for the assessment of injury and illness and the granting of workplace accommodations and lighter duties in the Irish Prison Service; the rules governing employment in An Garda Síochána, the Irish Prison Service or the emergency services prior to the implementation of the Employment Equality Acts...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service Staff (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: 202. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11168/18]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: I welcome two new members of the committee, Deputy Kate O'Connell who replaces Deputy Noel Rock and Deputy Jonathan O'Brien who replaces Deputy Mary Lou McDonald. We look forward to working with both of them. I thank Deputies Mary Lou McDonald and Noel Rock for their contributions to the work of the committee. I believe Deputy Mary Lou McDonald was a member of the committee for seven...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: That is a good idea. We have a letter in hand from Deputy Mary Lou McDonald wishing the committee all the best in its work. We will write back to her and also to Deputy Noel Rock to thank them on behalf of the Committee of Public Accounts. The Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, is present as a permanent witness at the committee. He is joined by Mr. John Crean, deputy...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will come to that matter when we discuss the work programme. Item No. 3 on the agenda is correspondence, of which there are three categories. The first is briefing material and opening statements. As members can see, there is a large bundle of correspondence to be dealt with. We will move as quickly as we can, but a few items will merit a more detailed discussion. Items No. 1117...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: I will call Deputies Cullinane and Catherine Murphy in that order.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Does it relate to this batch of correspondence?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is part of the current periodic report we are compiling and it is covered in that. We have asked for updates before we finalise our periodic report, which is nearly there.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: No.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will do that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: A final question from Deputy Kelly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Would the Comptroller and Auditor General care to comment on that? Obviously as part of his work, he examined the risk register.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: What is his understanding of this committee's entitlement to a copy of the risk register for the various organisations whose accounts come under our remit?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Fine, but we are talking about the administrative processes and controls. We will ask for that information again.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, we asked for this information last November.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will give them ten days. A week is a bit tight. We will ask again about the legal advice and when we get the reply within the fortnight, we can take that up with our own parliamentary legal adviser. The other issue that has come up a number of times is criticism of this committee, which is fashionable in some quarters and systemic in others. In that context, I am going to ask the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Or Deputy Cullinane in Waterford-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, there are several examples.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: There is a break coming up between now and the Easter period during which I will ask the secretariat to work on this because it is important. We have so many cases-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: There are many issues that we need to address. We need to demonstrate what the Committee of Public Accounts has achieved, in spite of what those who want to knock us might say. We will certainly come back to that matter. The next item of correspondence is No. 1114B from Mr. Tony O'Brien, director general of the HSE, enclosing information requested by the committee on salary overpayments in...