Results 3,721-3,740 of 35,131 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- 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.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy is correct and we have highlighted this. For the Tax Appeals Commission, the Department of Finance did not get the planning right for its establishment and underestimated the work. We have seen the same thing with Tusla; when it came out of the HSE, the relevant Department did not get a proper understanding of what was going to happen. We saw it with the ETBs. We have seen that...
- 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.