Results 11,281-11,300 of 34,627 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We have noted the correspondence and will ask Mr. Watt for his views on whether the legislation needs to be updated in any respect. We will note and publish that correspondence. No. 1483B is correspondence from Mr. Martin Shanahan, CEO of IDA Ireland, dated 11 July 2018, providing an update on the ConnectIreland dispute with IDA Ireland. An arbitrator has now agreed to deal with this...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We have a reply from the Department of Finance on staffing arrangements, further to that meeting. Separately, we have received a very strong letter from the OPW expressing dissatisfaction with what was said here. Representatives of the OPW are due before us in two weeks' time so we will ask them about their interactions with the Tax Appeals Commission. As I have said, there is a letter...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: For the next meeting, I will ask the secretariat to look at the report to identify those chapters and sections that are not involved in the Garda investigation, to list those topics, and to list the topics that are not appropriate for us to proceed with. The Deputy's point is right. I will ask the secretariat to do this in order that the committee knows and agrees the aspects we will and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will discuss it with the Department first so they can then discuss it with us.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: For now we will put it on the work programme. We will finalise our work programme as we go along.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will write to the Department to ask if it has received a response back that was requested to be provided within 14 days of the letter, which was dated 12 September.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will ask the Department directly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy has raised a correct issue. I have a request for the Comptroller and Auditor General. Every week this committee notes accounts and regularly, a procurement issue is mentioned. From the last full set of accounts in the last year I would like to see a list where there were procurement issues and the value of them. As some of them were on a sample basis, it might only be a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Procurement is so big an issue that I think we need to have that summary presented. The Comptroller and Auditor General's office will have that, so we ask Mr. McCarthy to come back to us on it. Is that okay?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, and the contradiction is that, given we are an island, one would have thought we would have fewer external contracts being filled in Ireland. All the countries on the Continent are well able to look after businesses within their own jurisdictions to a greater extent than we are. I find the whole concept quite contradictory. We will consider it again. We will discuss it as part of our...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Is that a separate Vote from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: I ask because the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform will be before the committee in about three weeks time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Which report? I think we will schedule a meeting with the Department, but-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will ask for clarification on the Minister's letters.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will ask those questions of the Department in writing as a result of this. The next item of correspondence is No. 1487 B from Ms Carol Boate, the regulator of the national lottery, providing information requested on the mechanisms to deal with unclaimed prizes and clause 6.9.2 of the licence to operate the national lottery. Does anyone want to comment? Generally, she says unclaimed...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: I propose we list the responses, perhaps even at the next meeting. Deputy Kelly has indicated. We have a couple of these responses from a couple of our periodic reports received over the summer period. We will put this as a specific agenda item the next day and discuss it. The last time we got a report from them on this specific issue was concerning the total investment by the State in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: -----the spin-off companies, they will get a great return. We asked for the details of the public funding put into them at all levels and they said it was not possible to provide them. We rejected that and said it was an insult to say the public service could not account for what was put into various spin-off companies. They came back a month later with very detailed information....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: This day two weeks.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Is the Deputy referring to the ones it is proposed be reopened?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will put it in writing.