Results 10,101-10,120 of 35,132 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Over 50% of its-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: I ask Mr. McCarthy to give us a note on the the right of access because many people felt that this body did not have access under section 38 and section 39 agreements in the past. If the Comptroller and Auditor General does have access it is within the remit of the Committee of Public Accounts to go there. If he goes there, we can go there. I am asking for a note because there has been a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: I am just talking about now. Let us take the sports capital grants for example.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Let us go to the sports capital grants. If an organisation gets a substantial grant through the Department, is the Comptroller and Auditor General saying that a condition of that grant would be that he could inspect if he feels it necessary?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Okay. It is probably news to many people that he has a greater right of inspection in respect of many organisations that receive public funding, many of which feel they are exclusively in the private sector or outside the public remit.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: I am not saying that the Committee of Public Accounts will go there, but the Comptroller and Auditor General has the right to do so.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: I am talking about grant funding rather than payments for services.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Mr. McCarthy will send us an explanatory note on that issue in his own time, as soon as he can.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will write and get clarification on that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Okay. I am moving on to correspondence received in the last seven days. There is not too much of it so it will not take too long. The first item is No. 1715B from the HSE regarding the transfer of properties from religious congregations to the HSE.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We are going to deal with that next week. We have cleared about two thirds of the correspondence that has been held over. If the Deputy wants to raise it now she may do so.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy has an item of correspondence in on this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: Grand, we will take that now.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: That is fine. The Deputy has sent us a letter, No. 1733 C. We were coming to it shortly. It is specifically about seeking a detailed note regarding the removal of the gates in the Phoenix Park and their repair, restoration and re-erection. It asks whether it had been discussed before it was known that there would be a papal visit. The correspondence also says "in view of the spreadsheet...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will write to the Department specifically on that issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will write specifically to the Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: The letter will be on one issue, namely, WIT. No. 1719B is from the Higher Education Authority providing details of the employee assistance help lines, which we will note and publish. No. 1721B is from the Housing Agency and follows up on our previous meeting. We will note and publish this correspondence, which provides very good information. I thank the agency for supplying it. It...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Seán Fleming: That is No. 1721B. The Housing Agency has provided a good information note on the regulation of approved housing bodies, which is not statutory. It has also provided a good note on land management on the 600 acres and 83 sites it owns. It gives information on sites transferred and sites progressing where agreement to transfer is in place, and details on the various capital funding schemes...