Results 6,361-6,380 of 34,585 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: The letter indicates that it will be 1 May before the board gets to consider it. We have provisionally pencilled in 16 May.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is on our work programme.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: I can guarantee that we will.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: We saw the Mazars report. The funny thing about that report, relating to substantially the same issue, was that it was completed in December and two weeks later we heard, "Let us do a PwC report". We had the Mazars report on the desk.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is guaranteed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: It will.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: I am taking the view, as Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts, that we have seen the Mazars report. We are seized of this issue. We are dealing with this issue and we will want that report. That is it. If somebody wants to stop the Committee of Public Accounts examining it-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: Exactly. The members of the Joint Committee on Health have been invited to visit the hospital and I know various regional health committees and members of local authorities who are on regional health forums have had tours of the site. I do not know if it will add much to our work.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: At this stage we will thank them for the invitation and just hold it over.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: Walking around the site wearing hard hats will not increase our knowledge.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes. I thank Deputy O'Brien because it is the HSE which commissioned the report. We will put it on notice that we request that as well. We will come back to the other issue about the capital works management framework and the Government contracts committee at that meeting. We will hold over all the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board correspondence to that meeting. The next...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is another job for the Comptroller and Auditor General. At least the position is being regularised, which is probably the key point because the practice varies in the District Court throughout the country. We understand the money in the poor box is accounted for through the Courts Service, but there may still be a gap. We will ask the Minister to clarify what is meant by the phrase "the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: I have seen it in the newspapers. It happens where a garda was injured in an assault and something is paid into the fund.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: I have seen such cases reported numerous times during the years in which a garda was injured in an assault and something was paid into the fund.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: There is possibly a category that is not captured by the legislation. I am referring to money that does not go into the poor box and is meant to be paid directly to a victim or an organisation. As we want to know how such instances will be captured under the legislation, we will write back to the Department on the matter. All I can say is that we are keeping on top of it. We will ask the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: Is there a third item of correspondence?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: No. 2074 was received from Professor Donnelly about a memorandum sent by a researcher to the then vice president. It is mentioned in the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General. There is also a note on the institute's concerns about the list of FeedHenry shareholders that we published on receipt of the information from the institute. Professor Donnelly requests that we remove the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: We have the correspondence from the president. Is the chairperson of the board a different person?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: The letter from Mr. Beausang in the Department is saying that the chair of the governing body has acknowledged receipt of the correspondence and the Department has advised the governing body that once the response is received from it following the next meeting, the Department will consider it then. Will it come back through the Department?