Results 2,861-2,880 of 34,833 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will ask for a note, but Caranua made it clear that it expects to have €2 million or €3 million extra at the end of its work that would allow it to reopen some of the old cases. A deadline for closing off cases was introduced. Some cases arrived after the deadline and they were not taken into account. Based on the average payments made to date, Caranua knows that if it...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Could Deputy Catherine Murphy say that again?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: I ask the Deputy to pass on the parliamentary question to the secretariat and we will write to the Accounting Officer, who was here only last week. To keep the record straight, we will give the transcript of what was said and the reply to the parliamentary question and ask for a response. We will do that. I thank the Deputy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: That matter was discussed here at a meeting recently. In essence, we were told the Local Government Fund was going to be reduced-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: I do not have the transcript in front of me, but I understood that would be replaced by Irish Water paying commercial rates to the various local authorities.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will need to write to the Secretary General of the Department for clarification.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: I am sure the Deputy has parliamentary questions about this. It was discussed here and the Deputy raised it here.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will ask for the current position rather than the monitoring role and for up-to-date information.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We can. Is it the baseline review for the Department funding for local government, the bloc grant or whatever they call it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is not a bloc grant. That was the wrong term.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Is it the requirement for each local authority?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Both of those items have been discussed here before. We are going to follow up on both of them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: In the current report?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will point to that. It will probably be January.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will ask for the reply within ten days. I believe that is normal anyway. We have held over some correspondence connected to Caranua in case members want to discuss it. We published it but held it over for further discussion. There was a late item of correspondence, No. 2543, from Deputy MacSharry, in connection with the Irish Wheelchair Association.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is clear-cut. We can write to the HSE for a note on the compliance and service-level agreement it has with the Irish Wheelchair Association. I am sure this must be covered in the agreement. HSE representatives will be before us in three weeks. I understand the health committee agreed yesterday to invite members of the Irish Wheelchair Association. Can we double-check that? The...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: The chief procurement officer of the Office of Government Procurement. I do not know the answer but we will find out. We will discuss it in private session in a minute and raise it on the record afterwards during public session.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: Is it the NTA that has put it out to tender?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: What can we do?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: The company is not under the remit of this committee; it is under the remit of the transport committee.