Results 11,601-11,620 of 34,956 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: No, not on that single issue. If he comes up on other issues, yes, but we have a string of third level issues.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will ask the Department to clarify the position from its point of view. Will we hold over our request to invite the person in?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: I mean the chief executive. We will include it for consideration under our work programme. Should we publish this letter?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: It does not include the name.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: It refers to the individual concerned and I think we would be identifying the person. I think we should hold off on publication. I am not happy with the letter Mr. Timothy Owens sent us, which is not, in my view, fair to publish. There should have been a presumption that we would get a letter that we would be happy to publish. However, I am not happy to publish that letter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, I have already said that we are writing back to him because we are not happy with the tone of his letter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: He has referred to an individual case, which is the entire substance of his letter, but we want to know about the general policy. We will write back to him on that basis. We will note the letter received and respond to it but we are not publishing it. We will ask that when he writes back to us that he does not do so in such a way as to make a person specifically identifiable. We are...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is a Victorian concept and the accounting structures being presented to us every year through the appropriation accounts are based on Victorian rules. They predate independence. We will write back to Mr. Watt and ask him if he has considered the matter and if he will make the accounts more modern and more suited to a republic.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Indeed, I attended a meeting yesterday on behalf of the committee on updating accounts.
- 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?