Results 7,101-7,120 of 34,616 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: For housekeeping purposes at this stage we will note and publish the letter from Robert Watt, No. 1983B and the letter from Paul Quinn, chief procurement officer, No.1984B. We also note the letter from the Committee on Budgetary Oversight, No. 1990B and the letter from the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach, No. 1991B. We will note and publish those.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: They can bring in Secretaries General too.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Is the Deputy referring to officials of the Department of Health?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy said the Department of Health when he meant the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Mr. Watt writes "As is normal". Usually when we issue an invitation to a Secretary General, he or she picks the staff who will also attend. Equally, we sometimes invite specific people to attend.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We regularly do that because it is such a big Department. We are specifying that we want Mr. Paul Quinn to attend. I am sorry to ask the Comptroller and Auditor General-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes. They would often be here. In what year was the Office of Government Procurement established?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Our issue with Mr. Quinn, which he has not dealt with in the two weeks since it was raised, is that he never informed us in his previous letter that he was a member of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board. I found it disconcerting that he was involved and he never told us. He still has not told us two or three weeks later. That is the first issue. When he was appointed to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Had that office been established at that stage?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: The Comptroller and Auditor General might be able to clarify this for us, though not necessarily at this moment. Perhaps he can send us a note tomorrow. When Mr. Quinn was first appointed to the board, was he an official of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform or was he in a separate body?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: He had just got the post - that is fine. We are agreed on Mr. Watt's appearance here. We are specifying that we wish for Mr. Paul Quinn to attend, because we have written to him separately. We also want to hear from the officials who will be the liaisons between his Department and the health Vote, who would often be here in any event. In relation to the comment, I made a suggestion at the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Does the Deputy mean the other committees?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We have recently received letters from the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality asking us to look at matters. We have heard from the Joint Committee on Health. I am making it clear, as Chairman of the Committee on Public Accounts, that each of those committees had an opportunity to deal with these issues long before they ever came before the Committee on Public Accounts. They deal with...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: To be very clear, we are going to deal with the work programme shortly and will definitely discuss that aspect as part of it. The correspondence is noted and will be published. We have decided on the appropriate action to be taken. Item No. 1990, correspondence received from the Committee on Budgetary Oversight, and item No. 1991, correspondence received from the Committee on Finance,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Might it be significant in terms of a draw on resources in 2018?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will note and publish the schedule also.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: For the purposes of clarification, the National Standards Authority of Ireland and the Residential Tenancies Board have agreed to make the repayments, but the amounts have not yet been finalised. The Dental Council of Ireland has not yet finalised its agreement - I think of all the orthodontic treatment being provided - while the Health Products Regulatory Authority has agreed to remit an...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: The clients are the landlords who must register with the RTB which is in part State funded and in part privately funded.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: No. They just have to find it.