Results 6,721-6,740 of 34,618 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: I have not decided anything. I made an observation the same as the Deputy is doing.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: Not at all. There is only one person-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: For information-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: Utterly. To ensure that people are aware, I, as Chairperson, wish to state that the only person required to appear at a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts is the Accounting Officer.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: I will answer the question.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: The official position as laid down - and not by me, I am just outlining it - is that the only person answerable to this committee is the Accounting Officer. No one else is accountable. An Accounting Officer is free to come on his or her own if he or she so chooses. Regularly, they bring officials with them to assist the progress of the meeting but that is at the behest of the Accounting...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: I am giving it to the Deputy straight.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: Let me finish. I am trying to put the matter on the public record. There is a practice of Accounting Officers coming in here and bringing people with them. There have been several occasions when we named people we would like to accompany an Accounting Officer. On all such occasions previously, there was that level of co-operation and that person came but, technically, it was always at the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: Those are the rules and we work with co-operation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: He can do so.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: Correct.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: I call Deputy Kelly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: Today.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is fine.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is fine. I call Deputy Connolly. We will wrap this up in a minute.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: No, it is the Accounting Officer.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: I call Deputy Cullinane.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: Okay.