Results 9,801-9,820 of 34,616 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: And the Vote.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: That is fine. Sometimes there are three or four chapters, as could happen today with Revenue. Members might concentrate 99% of their time on one or two and very little-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: No date is finalised yet. I want to put everything up for discussion. I do not want to stop a member speaking on a particular matter. The Vote has to be there as the first issue. If somebody wants to ask about the Vote and that might go into overpayments, it will be hard to stop discussion on the Vote and some of the chapters but it will be our job to ensure we touch on every chapter....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We might decide on the day to hold over some of it for the second day.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will ask the secretariat to investigate the RAS payment, and if that Department is responsible, it should be represented at the afternoon session of that meeting to deal with housing implications.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: HAP comes through local authorities. Rent supplement is through the Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: RAS is under the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government. That is why we need an official from that Department to appear along with officials from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection and the Revenue Commissioners on that day to deal with the collection of self-employed taxes. We will see how much progress we make. I do not want to exclude some chapters...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will hold the issues over. We will not split a topic across two reports because of our timetable. We can agree to hold one issue over until we complete the project. That happened once before. There is much to consider, such as approved housing bodies and so on, before we complete this issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Capital assistance schemes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will revert to that issue because we did not deal with the approved housing bodies at the first meeting on this issue. We are scheduled to deal with payments to approved housing bodies. We were always going to have a second-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, and the outcome in terms of the number of houses being delivered. On that day representatives from the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and the Revenue Commissioners will be present for the afternoon session. Is there anything in the work programme for 13 December? On 6 December we will deal with the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: They do. The Army has a role in terms of cybersecurity and we need to have the appropriate people from the Department or the Army or the Defence Forces here for that discussion of cybersecurity, which is not confined to the Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: On which topic?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy was referring to cybersecurity.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: The governance process, yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: There is a chapter on the matter in the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Those broad issues, yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: It might be 13 December either.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Not yet. We will follow up on it this week.