Results 11,521-11,540 of 34,618 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: I read out the proposal. Having considered Mr. Fraser's letter of 17 September, the committee has decided he does not require legal advice in the matter and will, on Tuesday, 25 September, proceed to examine the 2016 Appropriation Accounts - Vote 1 - President's Establishment. Is that agreed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Is that agreed? Agreed. The proposal is carried. We will write to the Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach, in his role as Accounting Officer, to attend the meeting with the committee to discuss the Vote on the President's Establishment for next Tuesday. The next item relates to CervicalCheck. The committee will deal with the work programme issues and will hold over...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Some time will be allowed if people want to talk about CervicalCheck.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: What is the proposal for next week's schedule? Where should the committee start?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Another practical reason for holding over next Thursday's meeting is that the director general of the HSE, John Connaghan, must leave by 12 o'clock because he has a meeting in Scotland with the Scottish Minister for Health and the Irish Minister for Health about the implementation of Sláintecare.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: He would have to leave at 12 o'clock in any event. The chief executive of the State Claims Agency who is handling the case is on leave. He booked it before we set this schedule. There were going to be gaps next Thursday, one way or the other. We will have a detailed discussion. Maybe the secretariat will liaise with Deputy Kelly, because he is on the health committee, to ensure that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, to ensure the two committees do not duplicate work. We will hold that meeting over for the moment until a precise scoping exercise has been done as to what we will do and let the health committee do its important work as well. At next Thursday's meeting, there may not be any witnesses. It might be an opportune time to clear all the correspondence that we are not going to do today.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: There is a couple of hours' work in that. Some of it will be very interesting. There are issues about health and a lot of other things. The public will be very interested in relation to some of the correspondence that has come in over the summer.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: The committee has two previous periodic reports. There are detailed responses now from the Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform. There is a lot of stuff for public debate in our correspondence. That meeting on health can be held over and the committee can deal with the backlog of correspondence from the summer. That is great. Staff in the secretariat have been...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: There is so much in the work programme that we did not know where to begin.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Department of Education and Skills.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Of course.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: I understand he is leaving his position at the end of October.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will make inquiries.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: For next Thursday, we will try to have-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Agreed. With regard to CervicalCheck, the secretariat will work on a programme for Thursday next. We will not have external witnesses. The meeting will be on our work programme and correspondence related to the third level sector.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: The secretariat will contact Dr. Love in the meantime to check his availability before he leaves office.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will have that finalised for the next meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Any member who wants an issue discussed as part of the process next Thursday should contact the secretariat directly in the coming days. On one final urgent item of business, the OECD is carrying out its accounting framework assessment and officials will be in Ireland next week. They have asked to meet the Committee of Public Accounts to get our views on the move from cash-based...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes.