Results 3,561-3,580 of 34,585 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: The OPW is scheduled to appear before the committee. It is on our list.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: I know people will think I am critical but every year we have a couple of issues in respect of the OPW. I know it does great work but in terms of getting the figures and budgets right, we have had several issues. I refer to the Department of Health moving to Miesian Plaza and several other issues. Here we go again. I am not criticising the quality of the OPW's work but it does not seem to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: In fairness, it is a city centre site and one just does not know what one is going to meet in the ground.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: We understand that it is a difficult site.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: The OPW is scheduled to come in and it is in here every year. We will specifically deal with this matter at that time. We note and publish that letter. No. 2427is from Mr. Robert Watt, Secretary General, Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, providing a response to our request for further information regarding the public services card. We requested the following information: a list...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will write back to Mr. Watt and ask him to provide the information. His Department is over the public service in general. If he has to consult other Departments and Secretaries General in order to obtain the full information, so be it. We want him to supply that information to us. We have asked a simple question. Many organisations are using it. We have not got the answer. We need...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will write again to Mr. Watt to seek the specific details we sought in the last letter and request him to consult whoever he feels appropriate to obtain the information for us. We will also ask the secretariat to contact the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection with regard to correspondence item No. 2441. The next item is No. 2442, correspondence from Mr. John McKeon,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: When a person presents a public services card at a swipe point, whether on a bus or train, the card chip contains a number with no name or address attached. The transport company can pass the information through the NTA back to the Department that the following numbers have made the following trips. The Department then knows the usage rate on the free travel card. Only the Department has...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Social protection.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: It will take a little while to close the full circle, but we have more information than we had two weeks ago.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: We hope, in another couple of weeks, that we will have a firm conclusion on the matter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: We note and publish this letter. Is that agreed? Agreed. The next item of correspondence is No. 2443, which is from Ms Anne Graham, chief executive officer of the National Transport Authority, providing the committee with a note on the use of the public services card for free travel. We note and publish that and it will be discussed as part of our meeting with Ms Graham shortly. Is that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Not satisfactorily. Next is Nos. 2421, 2422, 2423 and 2424, dated 27 September 2019, from an individual who has raised a number of matters relating to wards of court. We are familiar with this issue which has been before the Oireachtas. No. 2421 relates to the proposal for fuel increases, which is a policy matter that is not within the remit of the committee. No. 2422 is a copy of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy is referring to the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: That will be discussed at the committee discussing the Estimates for the Department of Justice and Equality rather than at the Committee of Public Accounts. The next debate on the funding for that will take place at the Select Committee on Justice and Equality when it discusses the Estimates for the coming year. I propose that we write to the individual accordingly. Can we close the matter...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will list consultancy costs on our work programme. I do not know precisely how we will do it, but we will put it down as an item on our work programme. The next item on the agenda is financial statements. Since our last meeting, only one set of financial statements has been laid before the Oireachtas. That relates to Ollscoil na hÉireann Gaillimh, NUI Galway. It got a clear...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is true. The next item is the work programme, which is displayed on the screen. Today, we have the financial statements for the National Transport Authority. Next week, we will have Caranua before the committee and the week after that, we will have the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine in to deal with forestry grants. On 31 October, we will have the Courts Service before...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: No, we will come to the Deputy in a moment.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will just finish the issue of carbon tax first.