Results 21,201-21,220 of 34,729 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: Is it in the financial statements?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: Those are available in the Oireachtas Library if anyone wants to have a look at them. There will possibly be indications in them. I take it the claims date has passed and no new claims can come in at this stage?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is under the HSE. We will write to the HSE to get an update and summary on that whole issue because €453 million is a big amount of money. We were all conscious of it a couple of years ago but we have kind of forgotten about the issue since. We will add that as an agenda item when representatives from the HSE are in next month. We will discuss the patients fund account, fair...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy wants that note in circulation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: I am happy to do that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: Essentially, we will clarify it and sent a note out. We are just examining the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General. We are not doing an investigation as such; we are examining the Comptroller and Auditor General's report. We did not seek powers of compellability. We are examining the Comptroller and Auditor General's report and that is it. However, we will specify what the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: That has been said in the Dáil.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: We are in public session and I have no problem dealing with this issue. I sought additional staff when we commenced our work and we had staff going through all the correspondence, summarising everything for the report, and they were available to us until the beginning of January. We probably thought we would have had a draft report in January. It has taken a little longer because we held...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: I am commending the staff.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: In fairness to the committee, we made a decision. We could have postponed and not have had last week's meeting or this week's. We decided we wanted to continue our normal public meetings here, so we have doubled up our work. However, the Deputy is right.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: If the committee would like me to write to the Ceann Comhairle on the Deputy's behalf - or anyone else's behalf - I will do that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: It puts additional pressure on the system here, trying to do our normal business and a very important report. It is an issue we will raise.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: It was a staffing decision not a political decision.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is not by us up here now.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: We had extra meetings.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will come to a conclusion. I call Deputy Kelly followed by Deputy Madigan.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: I will find that out.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: That has only happened in recent weeks and we will seek clarification on that. They probably felt we were almost there. We should have been allowed to complete it with the complement and we would have been there now.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: I will get all that clarified and we will take it up. A week or two ago we scheduled not to have any other business next week so that we would be able to deal with the report from the secretariat. I am satisfied that we will have that report from the secretariat, but at this stage we may not have it in sufficient time to have that meeting next Thursday. Our original intention a couple of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)
Seán Fleming: No. Correct.