Results 2,421-2,440 of 34,585 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: It was never exact. Some counties, if there is no gas network, do not come into the global valuation for Bord Gáis, for example, or Gas Networks Ireland, but most of the big counties do. There are some very big pieces of infrastructure in certain local authority areas. It was a simple way of doing it but is not an accurate assessment of the assets. That global valuation system is one...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes, and we will ask the HEA its view-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: -----on this, not just in the case of Waterford but across the board. I refer to two other notes in the letter from WIT, one of which is good news. It says in respect of the financial year ending 31 August 2019, "The consolidated financial statements are currently undergoing a final draft stage and will be available for the C&AG by the prescribed due date of 30th November 2019." That...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will see the financial statement for the end of August probably sometime in the new year.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Oh my God. I take it all back.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes, I think so.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes. It will be six months before Mr. McCarthy signs off on them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: The other ones will be audited by that time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Our committee will get the accounts for the end of August 2018 early in the new year. Fieldwork is well under way.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes. We will certainly come back to it at that stage. We will note and publish that information in the meantime. It is good to get it. The next item of correspondence - we are nearly there - is No. 2554B, from the Secretary General of the Department of Justice and Equality, dated 14 November, responding to our request for information regarding asylum seekers. The information was...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: That means they are in discussions and various stages of completion.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will ask what the word means.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will ask what that means and we will ask them to spell out the different stages in that process because it can be broken down into several stages. One other item I want to ask-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: The correspondence states that 4,190 people have come in the first ten months. That is in the order of 100 people per week. We can rightly say that figures went up in the two or three days that we were looking at.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: There were years in the past where 6,000 people arrived.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will ask about the different stages of the mobilisation, and about the different facilities provided in the emergency accommodation versus those in centres. Most of the centres are former hotels. Some of the hotels and guest houses are solely dedicated to emergency accommodation. There are no other people in this accommodation, although a certain number of rooms are set aside in some...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: The Comptroller and Auditor General is saying then that some of the cost incurred by the Department of Justice and Equality are built in by Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: I am not sure nor is the Comptroller and Auditor General 100% sure, but he has a greater understanding of this than I have.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Can we write to both Departments for clarification of this issue?