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- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (5 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: 356. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of naturalisation applications on hand; the number of applications by the country of each applicant; the number of applications received in respect of each country from the oldest application to 2018 and to date in 2019, by country; the length of time applications have remained in the system without a resolution;...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (5 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: 600. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an admission to hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44877/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Appeals (5 Nov 2019)
Seán Fleming: 807. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a GLAS appeal will be finalised for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44890/19]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness at the committee, and Ms Olivia Somers, senior auditor. No apologies have been received in respect of today's meeting. The minutes of 17 October have been circulated. Are they agreed? Agreed. If any matters arise, they can come up under correspondence. The next item on the agenda is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Okay. We will hold it over until the next meeting. I have no problem if the Deputy wants-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: It will be in two weeks, on 7 November 2019. The House is not sitting-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: We are certain. We have been told it will be on that date.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will come to the document in question in our work programme. We will not meet next week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: I agree and have read it. It is worth 20 minutes of discussion.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will hold it over. The document will hold and does not have to be dealt with today. We will deal with it at the next opportunity. No. 2456 is correspondence from Professor Willie Donnelly, president of Waterford Institute of Technology, WIT, dated 11 October, providing details requested by the committee in respect of an accumulated revenue deficit of €6.3 million in August...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will reply to the correspondence and, as Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts, I will state I have viewed the chart and am bewildered by it. The institute does not explain the difference between the institute cumulative position figures and the consolidated cumulative figures, and it did not indicate whether the figures relate to thousands or millions of euro. The schedule is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: We are guessing. It is wholly unsatisfactory.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is utterly unsatisfactory and we will state as much in our reply. I have never seen such an unsatisfactory set of figures produced at a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts on such an important matter. If this is how WIT conducts its business at this level, it raises serious questions about its overall management and governance.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes, absolutely. I am happy to do that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: We are quite clear about our reaction. I will indicate we do not seek a response but instead reject the letter as utterly unsatisfactory, and that we want a proper response with proper explanations. We formally reject the letter. Does that satisfy the Deputy?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: I propose we publish the correspondence to allow people to see what we mean. Is that agreed? Agreed. No. 2457 is correspondence from Mr. Bernard Gloster, chief executive of Tusla, providing an information note requested by the committee in respect of contracts that were non-compliant with procurement guidelines. People will have observed the committee in recent months being strong in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Tusla seems to indicate that because a large number of locations were involved, when it accumulated-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: It appears it has no real-time method of monitoring it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is why we are dealing with it. The Deputy is right to highlight it. This is an issue we are going to have a look at.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: And the education and training boards, ETBs.