Results 11,761-11,780 of 35,132 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy as the permanent witness to the committee. Apologies have been received from Deputy Pat Deering. The minutes of the meeting of 20 September have been circulated. Are they agreed? Agreed. There is a small change to be made to the minutes of the meeting of Tuesday, 25 September, which we will clear next week. There...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: That is one of the reasons that we want to talk to Dr. Graham Love. The Department should not accept that. Just because they know of an infringement does not make it correct. We will return to this topic. The expectation would be that steps would be taken by the relevant institute to rectify the position and ensure that a deficit position does not continue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: In other words, the accounts will include charges for depreciation on assets that will create a loss but depreciation is not a cash outflow. Therefore, even though the profit and loss account may show a loss due to charges like that, there could still be cash in the bank. Just because there is a trading loss does not mean that an entity will be in overdraft.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Some of the unpaid creditors have not yet been paid. An organisation can be in deficit but still have cash in the bank. It is a subtle accounting difference but an important one. They will be the same in the long run but at any time a body can be in deficit but have cash in the bank.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: The request has already been made to Dr. Love to appear before the committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Not yet. The invitation was only issued arising from our last meeting. He is leaving by the end of October and we will try to facilitate a time that suits him. If it involves an out-of-sequence meeting we will do that. We have had Dr. Love appear before the committee with representatives of the Department together. Is your request that they both appear together or separately?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: They have done it previously.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Okay. We will try to wrap this up.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: No. We are just dealing with the invitation to Dr. Graham Love, substantially, and this letter from him.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is part of the correspondence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is on WIT.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: They have to go to the Minister's office first before they are available to the committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Before moving on from this item of correspondence I should put on the record the contents of the correspondence. It says with regard to the deficits of institutes of technology that three have accumulated a deficit. Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology has accumulated a deficit of €3.299 million, the Institute of Technology, Tralee has a deficit of €1.843 million and Waterford...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes. We will return to the third level sector. The next item is No. 1481 Bfrom Mr. Timothy Owens, chief executive, Cork ETB, dated 12 July 2018, providing information requested by the committee regarding whether the ETB as part of any settlement agreement with a claimant imposes a condition on the individual prohibiting the person from applying for work with the ETB. Mr. Owens states that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: I want to send a letter back to Mr. Timothy Owens, with a copy to be sent to the chairman of the board, stating that the committee is not happy with the tone of the letter from that point of view. The first sentence in the letter states that Cork ETB does not have a policy or practice prohibiting people from applying for employment or re-employment. When he continues the entire substance of...
- 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.