Results 24,501-24,520 of 34,745 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
Seán Fleming: What is it and who pays for it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
Seán Fleming: It registers the dogs.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
Seán Fleming: Inbreeds.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
Seán Fleming: Will it require more legislation or a statutory instrument to rule those dogs out of order?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
Seán Fleming: Given that Bord na gCon will receive €14 million, can Mr. Meaney provide the committee with a copy of - in layman's language - the service level agreement between Bord na gCon and the Department on the receipt of those funds? In the HSE there are service level agreements when taxpayers' money is being used. Mr. Meaney is in the sporting business. If any sports club around the country...
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
Seán Fleming: Is there a formal signed-off service level agreement between Bord na gCon and the Department? Are the officials here from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine or the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
Seán Fleming: Mr. Gleeson will be able to help in this discussion about the service level agreement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
Seán Fleming: I want to ask the officials from the Department about this because I am disturbed to hear the taxpayer will be handing out €14.8 million for the coming year without a formal service level agreement, letters, plans and whatever. The Chairman will be issuing a recommendation that a formal service level agreement be in place. I am shocked to hear one does not exist. I cannot...
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
Seán Fleming: They are the same questions but I have a different view of matters from up here.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
Seán Fleming: Is that in greyhounds?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
Seán Fleming: That is fine. It is probably a personal opinion. What about the fact that there is no service level agreement in place?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
Seán Fleming: I will conclude in one moment and then call on Deputy McFadden. If there is €14.8 million and 10,000 recipients, the taxpayer is giving approximately €1,480 to everybody who is broadly involved in the industry as a subsidy to keep it going. It is good to put that figure on the record. That is how I translate the €14.8 million. It is divided among 10,000 people, with...
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
Seán Fleming: The final question I wanted to ask is on the Indecon report and the response to the recommendations. There was a chart in the Indecon report on the profitability of the tracks. It refers to them all and claims there was a loss of €4.296 million in the track income. I acknowledge there is other income. I am referring to recommendation No. 8, on the calibration of the number of race...
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
Seán Fleming: Eighty five this year?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
Seán Fleming: Races or race meetings?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
Seán Fleming: Was having fewer races a problem or was it accepted as the reality within the industry? They probably could see the reality on the ground.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
Seán Fleming: I was listening to a conversation about Bord na gCon's properties. What is the annual commercial rates bill for all stadia?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
Seán Fleming: Why is the rates bill to decrease?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
Seán Fleming: What has the experience been in counties where revaluations have occurred? Have rates decreased across the board or have any increased?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
Seán Fleming: If Bord na gCon's rates bills have decreased in these counties, other people's have increased to compensate.