Results 9,301-9,320 of 34,616 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: -----standards of Irish residents and the public debt sustainability. It continues by stating that it also needs to be assessed against complementary indicators such as debt to GNI*. It is accepting everything that has been said, but the rules are the rules, and they are European rules. The GNI* measure is taken into account when the stability report for Ireland is being issued but the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Far more importantly, our contribution to the EU is based on GDP and not GNI*. This is costing Ireland, therefore, several hundred million euro each year that our GNI*-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: But not GNI*?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: That means our contribution is not actually based on what is more appropriate to Ireland. It is based on the EU-wide standard, which in reality means Ireland is paying a higher contribution to the EU each year because that contribution is based on the European legal definition rather than our domestic GNI* measure.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: There is an outcome and a consequence of this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: At the same time, it is costing Irish taxpayers money, in extra contributions each year, based on that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, it is complementary.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Committee of Public Accounts has done a good job in highlighting the matter. During the course of our meeting very useful documentation was put into the public arena, which would be of interest to the people who follow those things. We fulfilled the role-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: -----in terms of public accounts by dealing with this matter publicly. The next Department is the Department of Justice and Equality. We said: "The Committee recommends that the Chief State Solicitor's Office ensures its oversight mechanisms are sufficient to prevent reoccurrence of this unacceptable waste of taxpayers' money". That relates to where the Probation Service took over a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Great.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Of course.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: As indicated, I think that-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: On last week?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: No. These matters were brought up only last week. We have written to RTÉ.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes. We will follow up on the matter. We will note on our review of the report to follow up on the matter. The report is long and extensive with some good stuff.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: The main issue is that we have to contact the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, which just noted our items but did not accept any of our recommendations. Most of the other Departments accepted the vast majority of everything that we recommended and we are following up on the implementation of those recommendations. That completes our consideration of the largest item of...