Results 10,481-10,500 of 34,618 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: I think that was provided to the previous committee. We will dig it out and circulate it to the members and return to it at the next meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: There was one exception.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Exactly. There is no general policy but that they can specifically do things that they do not do generally.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy is correct but what I want to do for now is to circulate the more detailed response that he gave to the previous committee. It is on the record, and we will circulate it to members during the week and return to it. If we are unhappy with his response, we will take it from there. Let us just read the detailed response that he gave to the previous committee. Some of it might...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We agreed that we will publish that letter from the Department of Education and Skills. The next item is No. 1642B from Mr. Derek Finnegan of the parliamentary affairs division in the Department of Health, providing an update requested by the committee regarding the value for money review of public nursing homes. The letter is essentially saying that it will be next year before the review...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: That is why I specifically raised this the last day.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We would be bringing them in again. I ask members to bear with me because we touched on this the last day-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: I want to read the highlights of this into the public record so that the public will know what we are talking about. There were three cases listed in a document that we got the last time with the Tax Appeals Commission with amounts totalling €361 million that were in dispute and we asked for a note on each of the three cases. The first case has an amount of €138 million under...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: That is fine and our job is to keep public pressure on this and to keep the Tax Appeals Commission hopping because these things can just rumble on for years. We have a duty to ensure we do that, especially now that resources have been allocated to do the job. We only highlighted the top 67 in our meeting and there are thousands more smaller cases behind in the system, but the 67 cases are...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Would many of these be corporate?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Dividend withholding tax is mentioned as well. Then there is some income tax.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We might for a recasting of the schedules under each of the tax settings, just to save our overworked staff from having to do it. We have the document here. The relevant authorities have the information on a spreadsheet. We will ask them to break the schedule down and give us the amounts under VAT, income tax, corporation tax and dividend withholding tax. We will ask for a recasting of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will get the information. The €750 million is in the context of approximately €60 billion collected by the Revenue Commissioners every year. Out of the €60 billion, we are talking about less than €1 billion, which is probably much less than 2%. I am not making light of it but putting it in the context of what the Revenue Commissioners do. I am putting the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will publish this. It will be followed up. We will return to it specifically when we recast the schedule. We will ask for target dates for having the matter concluded. That may not happen because every one of the people affected can go to court at the end of the process, if they like. That is not within anyone's control. We found a lacuna in the information between the Tax Appeals...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We have discussed this for long enough and we know we are coming back to it. It was useful to receive the letter. The next item is No. 1644B, from Mr. Michael Horgan of the Higher Education Authority, responding to the committee's request for a copy of Dr. Graham Love's resignation letter. Since the letter was received, the HEA sent a further email advising that Dr. Love authorised...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Someone got there in front of this committee. I was just made aware of it recently. We will publish it because it has already been made available. No. 1645B is from Mr. Robert Watt, Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, replying to information requested by the committee regarding PPP reviews. We will note and publish this and raise it with the Secretary...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is available, noted and published. It is already on the public record by way of parliamentary question. We will publish it here again. The next item on our agenda concerns statements and accounts received since the last meeting. There are seven, the first of which relates to the National Concert Hall. There is a clear audited opinion. Attention is drawn to the recognition of an...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: There was nothing paid out of the fund in 2017.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Is it expected that any will be paid out or is that all done through Caranua?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: There was none that year.