Results 5,201-5,220 of 34,616 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: For major contracts, certifying engineers and architects will normally verify the work done on a weekly or monthly basis and interim invoices will be submitted to the contracting organisation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: There is an ongoing method. Nobody waits for two years to get paid any more. Bills are submitted regularly and at different stages. The stages would be set out in each contract.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: I am talking about the main contractor submitting it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: It also says that any dispute relating to payment may be referred to an adjudicator. We know, however, in practical terms, that if a subcontractor informs the main contractor that he or she is being taken to adjudication by the subcontractor, and there is a job coming up next year-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: -----subcontractors can be in a vulnerable position, which is the point. I stress again for people who have an interest in this that the Construction Contracts Act applies to contracts in the private sector. It is not just the public sector. This applies across the board in the entire State and is not confined. People who are working in the private sector in building etc. have the same...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: In respect of No. 2195B, we note it and are asking for clarification in that, when a claim is being processed by the main contractor with the contracting body, where stands the subcontractor in the meantime? How does that fit into that legislation? No. 2196B is from Robert Watt, Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, dated 29 May, in response to our request...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: There are three short redactions blanking out key issues, but it provides more information than had been provided publicly in the earlier document. It is not 100% but it at least goes some of the way. We note and publish that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will forward it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will discuss the actual work programme on our report during private session. We will have suggestions in private session regarding our work on broadband because we do not want any unnecessary duplication between us and the communications committee. We will forward this to it in the event that the committee members there have not seen it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is one of the big four companies.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: He went to PwC rather than Mazars which had done its internal audit.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: There are a few other items on the national broadband plan in correspondence, and before we get into the session with our witnesses today, we will discuss in private session our next report and how we will deal with those issues. We may have a brief comment but we will be discussing in private session the formatting of our report and the inclusion of this information to bring our work to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: It will.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will discuss that issue in private session because we will be discussing how we proceed with the work that we have carried out to date on that matter. We note and publish this letter from Robert Watt. No. 2199B is from Maurice Buckley, chairman of the Office of Public Works providing information, including costs incurred, requested by the committee regarding public infrastructure at...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: Or more.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: Preliminary site works commenced in 2008. The letter we have received states no changes were made to the size of the building and the OPW believes it is substantially in line with the original tender. The claims are still subject to ongoing negotiation of the contract. It is not even completed as we speak today.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will write back and ask for an update at the end of September in respect of the outcome of the negotiations that are still under way. It is our job to tie this one down. We will ask for that. No. 2227B is from Ms Rhonda Evans from the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board, dated 7 June. We received this a week ago but we are only having our meeting now. It provides a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes, to date.