Results 5,061-5,080 of 34,585 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: I concur with the Deputy. Somebody in the Department should undertake a strategic analysis of the outcomes of these cases from the appeals office. If so many are being overturned, perhaps the criteria the appeals office are using should be used as the criteria for stage 1 of the application. We all know that when a case goes to the appeals office, the officials will tell the person to get...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: The note states: "...an econometric evaluation which was prepared as part of a collaboration between the Department's Statistics and Business Intelligence Unit (a part of the Irish Government Statistical Service which is headed by the CSO), and the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)." The Department says...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: We have been referred to the OECD's report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: I know.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: Other members share that view.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: The report's final recommendation reads, "The Committee recommends that annual targets are developed to ensure the number of PRSI checks remains consistent." The Department accepts this and state that in recent years the number of employer PRSI inspections has been low. It is very important for the protection of employees that the proper PRSI is deducted and recorded. The report also...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: There is good stuff there. We are doing our work. It is good to have the interaction. It is regularly pointed out that a legislative issue is the cause of what we have uncovered. It is up to members to deal with that. I now want to move on to the rest of the correspondence as quickly as possible. Some of it is relevant to this issue. One of the reasons I want to mention some of it is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: No, there are more than 18 accounts. Some of these Departments have multiple accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes, we are talking about the accounts for 2018. We wanted all of the accounts submitted.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: The Comptroller and Auditor General will clarify that next week. No. 2203B is from Technological University Dublin, which says it submitted its accounts on 29 May. That is good. We also have a letter from Mr. Brendan Gleeson, Secretary General of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, regarding the financial statements for the fishery harbour centres. I am not completely...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: It was not quite sure who was responsible for the final set of wind-up accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: It did not know who would produce the accounts. We understand that this is an unusual situation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is really just a matter of producing a final set of accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: No. 2240B is from the Archdiocese of Dublin with regard to St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: The next item of correspondence is from the National Treatment Purchase Fund. No. 2248B is a reply from the chief executive officer of the National Treatment Purchase Fund stating that a new patient access management system went live on 23 May in all public and private hospitals, which took longer than anticipated to implement. The new system will facilitate the earlier finalisation of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: The reply indicates that the late submission of its accounts for 2018 arose because the board had to accommodate the work schedule of the accountants it engaged. I am informed that the accounts will be submitted to the Comptroller and Auditor General's office this week, on 21 June.. I also received a reply from Mr. Mark Griffin, Secretary General of the Department of Communications,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: My understanding is that we did receive that information.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes. We will recirculate that information to members.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is included in our work programme, which we will move on to shortly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: The only sanction is public embarrassment, which I hate to have to do. It should not be our job to police how the well-paid people in these public bodies are doing their jobs. However, if nobody else will police them, including the departmental sectoral committees, we will do it for them.