Results 11,301-11,320 of 34,618 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will write to the Department, as well as to the OPW. The next item of correspondence is No. 1492B, dated 18 July 2018, from Mr. Paddy O'Keeffe, Tax Appeals Commission, providing information requested by the committee. There is a note on the money accrued as a consequence of appeal cases taken for 2016 and 2017; a note on the legislative changes that have taken place and further...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will hold it over. Is the Deputy coming back?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: What is the reference? Is it on the list? It is No. 1575B.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: If the Deputy has to leave, we will assist him by taking it out of sequence. It is correspondence from Mr. Neil McDermott, system funding, Higher Education Authority, providing an update on our request regarding the review of the spin-out and sale of companies from the Telecommunications Software and Systems Group, TSSG, at Waterford Institute of Technology. It appears there are ongoing...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Can we ask that of Dr. Graham Love and the Department when they are here? I do not know the answer either.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: It has been legally challenged before it was completed. Is that the point?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: All that I can suggest in the first instance is that when Dr. Graham Love and the Department are here that the Deputy puts those questions directly to them and we will see where we are after that. The meeting will happen in a few weeks because he is leaving at the end of October. Is that fair enough for today?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: I do not know what else we can do before that meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Does the Deputy want us to send that letter to them in the meantime?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We note and publish these except for the letter from the TUI, which we will send directly to the Department and to Dr. Graham Love asking them to have a response ready for us for the special meeting we will have with them on that. Is that agreed? Agreed. We will take it up with them then. No. 1575B is correspondence from the HEA. We note and publish that. No. 1577C is correspondence...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: At the meeting the last day, we asked the official from the Department of Finance, Mr. Carville, whether there was a reference to the Committee of Public Accounts in connection with this case from the Office of the Chief State Solicitor without any consultation with us in respect of our views on that matter. That was the matter we wanted clarified last week. Will we put that in writing in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will address the query to the Secretary General rather than the official. The clerk tells me we have already asked for that as a result of last week's meeting. It is done.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Are we okay on this topic?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Where do we go from here?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is in our report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We have got that. Everything the Deputy said will be on the transcript.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We move now to the next item of correspondence, namely, No. 1495 from Seán Ó Foghlú, Secretary General of the Department of Education and Skills, on the points we raised in our periodic reports in previous meetings on the contribution from religious congregations towards the costs incurred by the State in responding to child abuse in residential institutions. It is an...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: The figure of 53% refers to both agreements. The figure for the 2009 agreement is 71%.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is a figure of €4.2 million.