Results 20,461-20,480 of 34,745 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: I attended and found it interesting. All the questions were not answered but we got some helpful information. We will come back to that once the Government clears it. No. 341C is dated 13 March and is from the Department of Health in relation to the North Meath Community Development Association. Members will recall we have had a number of items of correspondence on this matter. The...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will come to that in a moment when we deal with the work programme.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Representatives from Bord na gCon will be coming in soon. No. 350C dated 15 March is correspondence from the UK Public Accounts Committee network inviting members and clerking staff to an event on good practice and knowledge about the work of the Public Accounts Committee. It may be a valuable opportunity to share and learn from other committees' experience. It will be a one-day meeting...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: We have written out for that and we have the reply, which will be circulated.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Representatives will be in next week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: It came in the last day. We will circulate it tomorrow if we have not already done so.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: We did not circulate it before today's meeting. It must only have arrived recently. We will circulate it tomorrow.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Representatives will be in on 6 April.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy will get that correspondence tomorrow. If Deputies want anything else before the meeting, further correspondence can go out to alert them to provide that information in advance. The next item is report, statements and accounts received since the last meeting. It is a short list today. The Heritage Council received a clear audit opinion, but there is a remark that it did not...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: Is that when a travel agent goes bust?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: In some years there can be no activity and other years there can be quite a bit of activity.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: The aviation regulator has a role in that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: When the aviation regulator makes a payment to people whose travel agent went bust, does it come out of this account or separately?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: On a personal note, I can confirm in 2016, I booked my holiday with Low Cost Travel Group which went bust. There are a good few people involved. I got full reimbursement last year so I am expecting-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: -----significant activity in the accounts in 2016. Mine will be a small percentage of that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: No, it was about €3,000 or €4,000. I forget the figure. It was a few thousand anyway. I got all my money back. I was impressed ultimately. I had to wait three or four months but it all came right in the end. The system works. I was impressed by it. That is all I will say. The next item is the work programme. There is a draft work programme in front of us now. Today...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: The secretariat is trying to tie down dates for Bord na gCon, which will hopefully come back to us tomorrow, and the Department of Justice and Equality regarding direct provision. We suggested last week that if we get a date for those meetings on 4 May or 11 May we can move the Revenue Commissioners and the Department of Finance back a week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: That is to be confirmed. We are not going ahead with a meeting on 27 April. We will have no meeting on Thursday, 20 April which is Easter week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: If both come back we will move them back by a fortnight.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will put them in on 11 May and we will move Revenue and the Department of Finance back a fortnight.