Results 11,501-11,520 of 34,627 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Seán Fleming: Before I call Mr. McCarthy, Deputy O'Connell has a brief point. We are wrapping up now.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Seán Fleming: Mr. McCarthy has indicated. This will be the final comment.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Seán Fleming: The Oireachtas does.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Seán Fleming: For the record, as Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts I have been selected-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Seán Fleming: -----for an audit for the second time in two consecutive years. There is some random process in here.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Seán Fleming: We have gleaned some information. This meeting was a useful exercise. Perhaps it should have been done several times by previous Committees of Public Accounts. We have learned one lesson. The Vote is an issue we will not neglect in future years. It is an issue to which we will return. We are not asking Mr. Fraser to send any information to us at this point Any question that was not...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (25 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: 285. To ask the Minister for Health when improved services will be allocated under the HSE disability services to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38410/18]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, a permanent witness to the committee. He is joined today by Ms Georgina O'Mahoney, deputy director of audit. We have received apologies from Deputy Pat Deering. We have received at least 80 items of correspondence, which is considerable, so I hope the committee can agree on them. I sent out a draft timetable...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: I intended to propose that, aside from the minutes, we move straight to the work programme, which includes those urgent items. There are three items that could be dealt with next week. One is the issue of Vote 1 - President's Establishment, which is very time sensitive with an election around the corner. The second item is the issue of CervicalCheck, on which there is correspondence with...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: I understand. The Deputy asked two questions. The first was to me and why we would examine this. It is Vote 1. There are 40 Votes before us every year and we discuss the majority of them, albeit we do not get to all of them every year. As Chairman, I have received several requests to discuss the matter and I said that if we do it, it will have to be done promptly as I would not like to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is suggested. We are not being told this but it is suggested.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: The answer to that question is that we have not obtained legal advice because I understand that we will not direct any questions to him in respect of the President and will question him only in relation to the financial matters for which he is Accounting Officer. He will not be able to explain. It is just to provide the information. He will not have made the specific arrangements. As...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: He can account for it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Exactly, and we would leave it at that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Exactly. I accept that we will not be able to tease out why this decision was made as opposed to that decision, but he will have to say that this happened, this is what it cost, and this was the expenditure. It is a question of having the information available. That is all it is.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: As was said, there would be limits and I would expect that, if somebody strayed too far with a question that I did not pull him or her up on, he would say that it would not be appropriate to answer. I would accept that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is coming in in line with the Estimate.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Can the letter be moved along on the screen? I call on Deputy Peter Burke. I am sorry, I missed Deputy Alan Kelly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We cannot say that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: As Chairman of the committee I have received several media requests from journalists who have concerns about not being able to obtain information under freedom of information legislation. A number of members of the public have also asked me to raise this. That is why. I could not say no to the media.