Results 7,721-7,740 of 34,616 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Have we got them or are they held by the health committee?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: I do not think we got them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We have done that, in writing.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will seek clarification on these things and maybe the Comptroller and Auditor General can give that. All the circulars are out there but there is company law governing the responsibility of a director to do his or her fiduciary duty to the board of which they are a member. Does the companies legislation supersede the circulars on the role of a director? Maybe this means half of these...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Those circulars are a waste of space.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Okay. That is good.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: A person's duty to the board was referred to last week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Who is the best person to help the committee with a summary of this point? Would the Comptroller and Auditor General be able to do it? I assume it is relevant to his audit process.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: I ask that you circulate it to members as soon as is practicable in the coming days. I was confused about that role within a company. We have covered the point for the moment and I do not want to go into the nitty-gritty of it now. At our last meeting we cleared, noted and agreed the minutes of the meetings of 17 January, 22 January and 24 January. The meeting of 17 January was with the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is correct.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes, when we receive the terms of reference, we intend to consider whether they will lead to the publication of a report or whether they will be written in such a way that it may not be possible to issue a report, and that is important.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: In summary, if the terms of reference have been made available, we want to obtain them by lunchtime. Otherwise, we should be told. The HSE has committed to reverting to the committee on the matter, after which we can discuss it later in the meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy is referring to No. 1918, from Ms Rhonda Evans of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board, which provides a note on the children's hospital costs and the list of independent and corporate reports. It is to be noted and published. The Deputy is right that there should be clarification. On the Linesight report, there is no outline of the cost attached to the schedule...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: What is the Deputy seeking?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: The report and the cost.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is fine. We will move on. The next items of correspondence, category C, relate to private individuals and other correspondence. Item No. 1916, from an individual, dated 31 January 2019, concerns the selection process followed by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to create a panel for election observer rosters. As we have previously noted, the subject matter is not within...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes, the committee has addressed the matter a couple of times. The correspondent has written to the committee a number of times.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will check and if there has been no response, we will write to it again.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: The issue is that the previous board was allowed to lapse without the new group being in place to take over.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: It was carried over its original timescale.