Results 3,761-3,780 of 34,585 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: The letter says that the Department has a central oversight role and that the HEA is monitoring governance practices. The Department has asked the HEA to arrange a study of this. The terms of reference are being finalised and the Department will be updated in due course. The Department has stated that when it gets the information from Waterford, which we have mentioned, and when it gets...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Will the Deputy crystallise what he wants us to do?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Notwithstanding the long-term study.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will write back to them on that basis. The Deputy has made the point very clearly. We will note and publish that correspondence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: I thank the Deputy. That is appreciated. We move to category C correspondence, which is from or relating to private individuals and any other correspondence. Some of this arrived during the summer but we had to clear the earlier categories of correspondence at our two previous meetings. No. 2349C is correspondence from an individual, dated 15 July 2019, responding to a request from the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: I do not have it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Where do we go with this?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will include it as an item to be discussed with the HSE representatives. I have proposed that they will be coming in again shortly. There is a chapter in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report in connection with HSE primary care centres. Quite a lot has happened since HSE representatives where here to discuss last year's financial statements, particularly in the context of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is agreed. We will write to them and put them on notice. No. 2356C is correspondence from an individual, dated 8 August, who has made a detailed submission regarding the financial situation of Irish wind farms. Related to this are Nos. 2368C and 2370C, dated 8 August, correspondence from individuals also requesting the committee to review the submission. We know this matter is not...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Is Deputy Munster referring to the correspondence from Deputy O'Reilly?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will forward both No. 2366C, the letter from the individual, and No. 2385C from Deputy O'Reilly, and ask for a comment on both. No. 2369C, dated 3 September, is from an individual concerning the national broadband plan. The correspondent has copied the committee on a submission to several Ministers and to the Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment. We have looked...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: The correspondent is concerned about the frequent nature of the repairs and whether they are necessary. His view seems to be that the road is fine but the city council has so much money that workers come around every so often to do repairs.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: The correspondent is saying that the repairs are a waste of money, which is probably why he wrote to us.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will not get into the issue of funding of local authorities today.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is what he is saying. There are many counties where people are crying out for some of that extra money. We will move on. No. 2391C, dated 20 September, is from a member of the Irish Greyhound Board. The individual is of the view that he was unfairly mentioned during our meeting with representatives of Bord na gCon on 19 September. Having reviewed the transcript of the meeting, I...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes, the person is entitled to write to us.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: We are not publishing the letter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Deputy Connolly is right that the person is entitled to write to the committee. I am dealing with it as Chairman. As I said, I would have raised the issues that were raised had no other member done so. We do not publish correspondence from individuals because to do so would assign parliamentary privilege to that correspondence. All the category C correspondence from private individuals is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: It relates to flood relief, which I assume is a matter for the Office of Public Works, OPW.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: I am happy to write to the OPW requesting that it respond to the correspondence. I thank the Deputy for her suggestion, which is a better way of dealing with it.