Results 11,361-11,380 of 34,618 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will note and publish that and return to the topic next week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will return to the topic next Thursday. The next item of correspondence is No. 1506 from Mr. Martin Whelan of the National Treasury Management Agency, NTMA, dated 3 August and providing up-to-date information requested by the committee at a previous meeting. A number of matters arising from the meeting are covered. In regard to the funding of debt management, a chart is provided which...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: There are 150 pages there.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes. We will note and publish it in the meantime but will hold over the discussion of it. We will come back to it on our work programme. The next item of correspondence is No. 1537 Bfrom Mr. Jim Breslin, Secretary General of the Department of Health, dated 24 August 2018 providing follow-up information requested by the committee about general adult mental health services; costs of hiring...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: I am in members' hands as I do not have a straight answer. We have been around the houses in respect of this issue but we are still not getting clear answers.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: I do not have the answers. We can talk to the Department but the Department is far removed from the issues and would not be able to give us any assurances.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We said we would deal with the whistleblowers separately and in private session. That will involve looking at how whistleblowers are being dealt with and the processes involved.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: It has been going on for over a year.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: CIT was here twice.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: When we are doing the work programme, we will have to come to a conclusion. We will have to put our heads together in the meantime, as we do not have the solution today.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: To help the committee, I will step forward to the next correspondence, which deals with this. No. 1561 is from the Higher Education Authority, HEA, in relation to examination of expenditure at Cork Institute of Technology, CIT, and the ability of technological universities to borrow, which they have an entitlement to do. In fairness to the HEA, it gives us a response in its letter, No. 1561,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: There is a principle established there which is helpful, even though the amount is small. I call Deputy Catherine Murphy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: There is a good principle established here. We have been through this in a different guise, and it is something the Committee of Public Accounts should return to at a later date. The submission of accounts by various organisations, such as the education and training boards, ETBs and so on, was delayed in the past. However, section 38 and 39 organisations also had a poor record of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is the end of October.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Before the day is out we will ask the committee secretariat to make contact and revert to the committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We are told in writing it is the end of October, but it could mean there is leave to be taken.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will see that happening before he actually leaves the building. The next item of correspondence is No. 1562. We noted No. 1561, which I have just read out and published. No. 1562 is from Ms Clare Campbell of the Government accounting unit in relation to the OECD meeting which I attended yesterday on behalf of the committee. We note and publish that. The following item is No. 1584...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes it is a massive letter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Which committee deals with the Citizens Information Centre?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will forward this directly to it for whatever action it considers appropriate because as the Deputy says it is very comprehensive and extensive. Perhaps the committee has received it already. The next item of correspondence is No. 1590B from Mr. Neil Murray, director of the Abbey Theatre providing clarification to evidence provided to the committee. We note and publish that. The...