Results 241-260 of 843 for garda speaker:Seán Fleming

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...report when we come to deal with corporation tax because that was the context in which the issue was raised. No. 1112B, correspondence dated 21 February 2018, is from Mr. Joe Nugent, chief administrative officer, An Garda Síochána, enclosing updates on the Garda College, Templemore, as requested by the committee at its meeting on 23 November 2017. I propose that we note this.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...fines that had been cancelled, adding up to €5 million. That was one of the ingredients that led to where we are now. The committee was attacked right, left and centre for dealing with the Garda Síochána issue but a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General found that the committee was totally within its rights to do that. We also dealt with the so-called Grace case...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...has been made. It does not go through the system. Therefore, we do not know what is going through that system. There are also category C payments, referred to as payments made via the Probation and Welfare Service to the Garda on order of the court. It is stated, "These payments are not accounted for in the Court Office and are not included in annual Poor Box receipt figures."...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: Sometimes one hears that money is payable to the Garda benevolent trust fund or social club. One sees instances of this reported on in local newspapers. The correspondent is clear that the payments do not go through the accounts and are not recorded or audited.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: We understand the question. Correspondence No. 1104C is from an individual who was previously a member of An Garda Síochána. The document is dated 20 February 2018 and encloses a review of contracts relating to the provision and operation of safety cameras for An Garda Síochána. The individual provides an analysis of the GoSafe programme, about which he expresses...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: This is a former garda who has a detailed report.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: It states in the document the contract was signed by the Minister and the Commissioner, so we need to write to the Department and the Garda Síochána. The person rightly prefaces the whole report by stating this matter was discussed by the Committee of Public Accounts on 10 July 2014, following the earlier report of the Comptroller and Auditor General. This matter came before us a...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes. To remove any mystery about it, the gentleman who has compiled this report has put his name to it. The former member of the Garda Síochána is John O'Brien, and he has some knowledge of this particular area. We will ask for a detailed report from the Garda Síochána and the Department of Justice and Equality to address the issues. Perhaps, as Deputy Kelly has said,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: Okay. That is reasonable. The Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board has a clear audit opinion. It is a very small organisation. No. 4.7 is the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission and this is a clear audit opinion. The committee is getting these audited accounts 15 months later. They took their time in getting these accounts to the Comptroller and Auditor General. It is a clear...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service Staff (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...and Equality the process used for the assessment of injury and illness and the granting of workplace accommodations and lighter duties in the Irish Prison Service; the rules governing employment in An Garda Síochána, the Irish Prison Service or the emergency services prior to the implementation of the Employment Equality Acts 1998 and 2004; and if he will make a statement on the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...is from Ms Oonagh McPhillips, acting Secretary General in the Department of Justice and Equality, enclosing the governance framework agreement between the Department of Justice and Equality and An Garda Síochána. We note this. I note from the back page of page 28 of that document that that agreement was signed by the acting Garda Commissioner, Dónall Ó Cualáin on...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...work in the past year or so. I want to touch on an item of correspondence which is directly related to that point in order to demonstrate how important the work we have done is. It is from the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, in respect of its inquiry into matters in the Garda College in Templemore. The commission is seeking our assistance and the documentation and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...correspondence is No. 1071C which is dated 7 Februrary 2018 and from Mr. Stephen Tierney, designated officer in GSOC. It relates to a request to forward to GSOC all documentation received from An Garda Síochána in the committee’s examination of the Garda College in Templemore. GSOC is investigating financial fraud allegations at the training college. The secretariat...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...we have the Department of Justice and Equality on the development of its IT system, on which there is a special chapter in the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General. We will deal with the Garda internal audit report on its IT contracts on that day too. On 3 May, we have Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment, particularly in relation to RTÉ,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Closed-Circuit Television Systems (14 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...of grants for CCTV in towns and villages; the person or body that will carry out the role of data controller; his views on whether this matter should be carried out by the local authorities, An Garda Síochána or Garda-vetted persons in the local community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7691/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...Services Office appeared before us last week. It is the body that manages the payroll and pension payments of what we all understood to be the majority of the public service, excluding HSE staff, gardaí and teachers. The figure cited in the relevant chapter regarding non-returned salary overpayments to public servants was €4.6 million. That is the figure we all saw - and by...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes, across Departments. In addition to that, because I was conscious of the fact that the Department of Education and Skills, the teachers, and the Garda Síochána were not included in that figure, I asked the Comptroller and Auditor General about it. He said that in regard to the Garda Síochána, prisons, education and Army pensions, there is another €8 million in...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...We then have the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, which has €3.2 million in uncollected overpayments. That is an average of €2,177 per person. The total figure for the Garda Síochána supplied by the Comptroller and Auditor General last night is €1.8 million, which is an average of €1,711 per case. The figure for the Department...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: -----but the big areas not included, and we went through this, are the HSE, local authorities, the Department of Education and Skills, the Garda Síochána and the Army. They are the big areas, and the Oireachtas.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...but that repayment plans are only in place for 391 of these. For the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, there are 1,511 cases but only 385 repayment plans in place. For the Garda Síochána, there are 195 individual cases but only 27 repayment plans. My real concern is that they were sitting there with no plans in place to tidy the matter up.