Results 20,181-20,200 of 34,726 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: I call Deputy MacSharry.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Through the Chair. Deputy MacSharry is the next speaker.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: I call on Deputy MacSharry and I urge him to speak on this topic.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: We should stick to this topic.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Members have asked me questions and I will explain the full background. I explained previously that the sequence commences with the letter of 15 February 2017 from the Minister to this committee, which is reproduced in full in the report. Before the members had an opportunity to consider that letter, the Minister was before the finance committee dealing with Estimates. He took the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: On our report, in that we were potentially making adverse findings against NAMA. I am taking it a step further. Senior people in this House made it very clear to me as Chairman that if they were not happy with the wording in the report, they would prevent our report being issued and they would take it to the Committee on Procedures and Privilege to have it approved by it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Senior people. I am not going to name the officials-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: No, I am talking about senior officials, not the clerk to the committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: In the Oireachtas.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: For the moment, I am not going to name an official by name. That is standard practice.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Let us use his title. Was it the Clerk of the Dáil?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: No, let me clarify. I am not identifying the person here today but I am making it clear that senior officials, certainly not anybody in this room, made it very clear to me that if the wording was not to the satisfaction of what the House – they - felt was safe; that they had, under Standing Orders – I have not checked the Standing Orders - the authority to take our draft...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Senior officials. I took it as par for the course in my job as Chairman to deal with that and move on. I am now putting on record that I think the fact we did our work has strengthened the committee, despite people's efforts to undermine us. We are a stronger committee for it. With regard to NAMA, I have served on this committee for a couple of terms and, during those terms and perhaps...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: That was personal.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: To clarify, I have asked the clerk to outline for us whatever Standing Orders are available to people in the House regarding committee reports - I am not aware of every Standing Order - and the procedures in place whereby reports or draft reports can be referred to the CPP. I would like that to be summarised and presented to us in the afternoon. It may be something we were not fully aware...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: I have to leave in ten minutes for a short period and the Vice-Chairman will take the Chair.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: They would probably say it was to protect the committee.