Results 7,621-7,640 of 35,131 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- 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.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: They do not specifically have to go one by one. It might be helpful to members if I indicated the scale of the moneys to which we are referring. The lowest amount I can see on the list is for the Teaching Council of Ireland, for which the figure is €60,000, whereas the Commission for Communications Regulation had to make arrears payments totalling €1.13 million. The...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Would the Deputy like the committee to write to each of the four organisations to ask what its plans are, what the implications are and proposals it has to deal with the issue?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will write to each of the boards. Is that okay?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will not just leave it at that. We will follow through and write to the four groups mentioned in the schedule about the issue. I thank the Deputy for following through on the point. Item No. 1969 is correspondence sent to An Garda Síochána by the organisation Former Local Authority Members Éire, FLAME, about the winding up of the Association of Municipal Authorities of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: No. I have not seen that letter.