Results 21,361-21,380 of 34,777 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: The letter is to Mr. Tony O'Brien, director general of the HSE, from an anonymous source who signs himself as being a whistleblower. A copy of the letter was sent to the Comptroller and Auditor General.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is unsigned. There is no name, no address and no mention of any part of the country. When HSE representatives are before the committee, members will be free to raise the issues referred to in the correspondence. Item Nos. 266C, i to iv, and 267C, i and ii, are correspondence received from an individual, enclosing various newspaper articles on the payment of public moneys by Dublin...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will put the Accounting Officer on notice that the committee will deal specifically with that funding. Is that agreed? Agreed. Item No. 271C is a copy of an email sent to Mr. Dara Connolly, president of the Irish Pharmacy Union, regarding deficiencies in the legal system. I propose that we note it. Is that agreed? Agreed. Item No. 272C, i and ii, is correspondence received from Deputy...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: Has everyone read it? Are there any queries on it? The unanimous view of the meeting is that the clerk should issue the attached letter to the individual concerned. The next item on the agenda concerns statements and accounts received since the last meeting. They will come up on the screen. The first item is No. 4.1, University College Cork, regarding a qualified audit opinion relating...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: What this means is that there is a trust fund that is sometimes a fund-raising activity for the college but which is not run directly by the college. Obviously, there are common members involving senior people in the college and the trust. It means that it is a stand-alone fund that is not included in the accounts of University College Cork. The Comptroller and Auditor General can clarify...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is happening with many third level institutions so the Comptroller and Auditor General-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: -----and it is not included.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will come back to third level institutions separately.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: I think that in the early part of the year, we will allocate at least two meetings to third level institutions.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: We discussed this at last Thursday's meeting. The Comptroller and Auditor General is preparing a report on the 300 organisations he audits. In respect of where he had qualifications in his audit report or drew our attention to the topics, he will come back to us concerning all the organisations with procurement issues.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: That will lead into a special meeting on the issue of procurement in the next couple of weeks.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will have an excellent summary of all the issues referred to by the Deputy because, as he said, we are getting bits week by week and they keep coming up so we need an annual summary. The next item concerns Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board. Again, there was a clear audit opinion but matters drawn to our attention include the fact that the board was late in preparing its...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: Okay, and it is a matter for-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: Do we write to the Accounting Officer of the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport or Fáilte Ireland?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will write to the Accounting Officer in that Department in respect of the 2013 accounts. I thank the Comptroller and Auditor General for highlighting-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: That is good. We will write to the Accounting Officer. Item 4.12 concerns the Dublin Regional Tourism Organisation - that is the one we have just mentioned. We will note it even though there was no activity during the course of the year. Item 4.14 concerns the Marine Institute, which has a clear audit opinion for its 2015 accounts. That completes the review today of the accounts received...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: Does the Deputy want us to write to the HSE in the meantime to ask for information and its estimated cost?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will have an item of correspondence about where it sees it going.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will write to the HSE for an update and check the legal situation before the letter goes out. We will get a response in the usual HSE timely manner. We will give it a fortnight to answer that one. If there is no other business there is no need for a private session. We will suspend to allow the witnesses from the Department of Defence take their seats.