Results 3,181-3,200 of 34,585 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will come to that. We have opened up the door on the non-procurement. The question is about the adequacy in the round of the guidelines they operate. We have all seen the national stationery list that is provided to every school in the country. If they want to buy a ruler or a pencil parer they have to operate from the list, although exceptions can be made. It might be...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: We are going to invite the Office of Government Procurement in for a special meeting on procurement and to address two issues. I am jumping on to the work programme. Week in and week out we are seeing reports audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General of non-compliance with Government procurement. In recent months - I want to check if it is since the start of this Dáil term and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: We have to start with them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: My apologies for cutting across the Deputy, but we might consider speaking to the small and medium-sized business organisations.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: We can put it on the work programme as to who we need to bring in and we can invite in that organisation, and probably some others, to give us a rounded view.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will not sign off on the specifics today but we can see the gist of where we are going.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: For the next meeting, I will ask the secretariat to draw up a programme to deal with all of this. We want that information here to analyse it at the public meeting, and not to have to ask the organisations to go away and bring back the information a month later.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is correct.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will note and publish that documentation. We will devise a specific programme of work on this issue, to include the broader context, not just compliance.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Okay, we will-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Some contracts might roll on for a ten-year period, but maybe the original contract should have specified a ten-year period.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Then it would not be required because it would be obvious. We have had a good discussion. We know there are significant and broad issues, and we will come back to them. We will note and publish that and will come back to that specifically in our work programme. No. 2458 is from John McKeon, Secretary General of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, providing...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will put the request of the Deputy in a note to the Department, which is to be supplied with the briefing material in advance of the meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Maybe it would be better on an ongoing basis. These are the questions we will ask on the day.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: We want this in the briefing note in advance of the meeting so that we can have a productive meeting when the Department appears before us. That is noted and published. No. 2461 is from Julie Sinnamon of Enterprise Ireland, responding to our request for an information note regarding the loan write-off to the value of €7.7 million. It is a very detailed and comprehensive letter....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: I urge Deputies to keep their comments brief in deference to the Deputy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Correct.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: When we note and publish that today people will see that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: I will call Deputy MacSharry and then conclude discussion of the matter because it merits a detailed discussion.