Results 20,381-20,400 of 34,745 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will be guided by the Deputy on this. If he feels there is a need or it would be helpful to call someone, we will certainly do that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: We are putting the HEA on notice that it should be present at all meetings involving third level institutions-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: -----and if there are specific requests for particular people. Is that agreed across the board?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: We understand where we are going with that. The next item is No. 337C, dated 10 March from the National Transport Authority, providing a note on the licensing of bus services operated by Bus Éireann. We note and publish that. The next item is correspondence from the Office of the Garda Commissioner dated 14 March, providing information on when a Garda Sióchána audit...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Mater report is a historic report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy is right, and we have asked the National Hospital Paediatric Board to outline the costs incurred to date and the systems it has in place to ensure that the costing system they have used in the past are valid and will hold. The Deputy is partly right.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: I understand that, but what I would say is that we can agree-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: That may happen. Most people will focus on what is actually happening. What other people might like to happen is another day's work. There is quite a campaign out there.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will have to be conscious of that and try not to be deflected on the day. The next item is correspondence No. 370C from an individual on 22 March regarding broad allegations of an investigation into Teagasc officials. The secretariat is currently reviewing all correspondence concerning this matter. The correspondence had been submitted at a previous PAC. None of us is personally...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: I will follow that up. We will also write to the Courts Service, because there is a separate Accounting Officer. Fines were issued through gross incompetence, perhaps not by the administrative section. We want to know what fines were issued and paid and what process it has in place to return money to the public.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: That applies to the Courts Service as well, because it is the body that collected the money that now has to go back, so we want a report on that money.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Okay, we will write to them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy is correct. We will write to the Courts Service and it can give us a timetable.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: However, we can ask and it is up to them how they respond.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: For information purposes, the Department of Justice and Equality is in on its Vote on Thursday, 11 May. That is already scheduled and this is smack bang within the Vote. The Department is scheduled to be here for its routine visit and it will deal separately with procurement and management of contracts for direct provision on the day. The next item is a letter from-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: We have the Department of Justice and Equality. Specifically, there is a chapter in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report on direct provision. We always deal with the chapter in the Department when it is here but, obviously, there will be a special focus on the chapter in the report on that day. The next item is from Deputy Cullinane on an RTE story of a possible loss of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: That will be its annual report which will be bang up to date and include everything Deputy Cullinane is looking for.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: I will have to be excused for half and hour or so. Is it agreed that Deputy Cassells takes the Chair? Agreed. It is probably his first time so I ask members to give him some latitude. There is a brief here and the secretariat will assist.
- Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy may ask a final question.