Results 4,181-4,200 of 34,616 for speaker:Seán Fleming

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is not like the bus where people just hop on and the the company gets a grant. Is Iarnród Éireann paid per journey?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: I am talking about trains.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: We know about the buses. Bus Éireann and other companies get a grant to cover the cost of travel passes. It is different for trains.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: Iarnród Éireann knew.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: When Iarnród Éireann went back to the Department, for some reason, the Department informed it that the person was not entitled to the card. Maybe the Department had not cancelled the entitlement to the travel pass when it cancelled the carer's allowance.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: I do not know.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: Yes, and it then went after the individual to prosecute. The public services card is doing all sorts of things.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: I do not think this was an isolated case. The Data Protection Commission was criticised in one of the reports. I understand Ms Dixon said the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2015 was very hard to follow and unclear. She was critical on the basis that it was not clear how the whole system worked. She was accused of using pejorative and sensationalist language. I will make one point in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: These are genuine cases.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: The authority is blamed for it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: I will ask Ms Dixon to send us a note on that because those are the sort of matters that when they take off on Facebook, everybody blames GDPR. They say we have gone mad when we are down to such a situation. It stems from GDPR and perhaps it is not being implemented properly. When it is not implemented properly it can damage the good name of GDPR and what GDPR is trying to achieve. The...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: A lot of information is required because we have seen local authorities that are now getting the different levels of forms together for people to sign and that is all an improvement. It is a bedding-in process as well, so we understand there will be hiccups. It was useful and good to have the Data Protection Commission here. As one of the members said earlier, we have witnesses who come...

Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: I am pleased to have the opportunity to contribute to the debate. Like every other Member, as a local public representative, I am keenly aware of the housing difficulties in every constituency. It differs depending on whether one is in an urban or rural area but there are problems everywhere. I have a particular interest in this legislation because up to early last year, the Minister and I...

Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: So it was about soya lattes - very good. Was that not an excellent housing scheme and a perfect development strategically located at the centre of Portlaoise delivered by the local authority? We should continue to support local authorities. They feel as if they have been sidestepped. When I visit my local authority, as every Member can do, I find that all housing is being delivered by...

Finance (Tax Appeals and Prospectus Regulation) Bill 2019: Second Stage (24 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: I thank Deputy Michael McGrath for agreeing to share time with me. I acknowledge that this is important legislation. It deals with an issue that has been discussed at length at both the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach and the Committee of Public Accounts in the past year or two. We support the Bill, with which the Committee of Public Accounts...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Applications (24 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: 156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will be approved for the summer works scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38273/19]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, as a permanent witness to the committee, and he is joined by Ms Orla Duane, deputy director of audit. I would like to welcome the Comptroller and Auditor General and all the members back after what I hope was a good break. I also welcome a new member of the committee, Deputy Imelda Munster. We look forward to her...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will spend a couple of minutes on the work programme before we deal with Bord na gCon and accounts received and part of the work programme is next week's schedule. The first items of correspondence are category A correspondence, which are briefing documents and opening statements for today's meeting. Category B, which is Nos. 2387A and 2388A, dated 17 September, from Bord na gCon,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: Not the opening statements but the correspondence.