Results 11,861-11,880 of 34,618 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, but not in respect of 2020. We did not cover that aspect in our report so we will send a specific letter to the Department. Again, if there is a reply we will send it directly to the Deputy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: The next item is correspondence. There are three categories of correspondence and a number of items have been carried over from the last meeting. Members will have to bear with me because there is an amount of correspondence. We did not deal with quite as much on the last occasion and this is the last time we have an opportunity before we invite our witnesses in. No. 1478A is from Mr....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: Okay, that is fair comment. As Chairman, every Wednesday I receive a telephone call to confirm what the committee will discuss in the Thursday meeting and various journalists are able to read for me verbatim from the information circulated to committee members, some of which I have not even had an opportunity to read at that stage. There is a serial leaker in the committee, full stop. I do...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: Okay, we will move on. It is just a point to be aware of.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: Okay. It is a recurring issue and we can come back to it. The next correspondence is No. 1387 B, which is held over from the last meeting. It isfrom Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú, Secretary General, Department of Education and Skills, dated 12 June 2018 providing information requested by the committee at the meeting on 24 May 2018 regarding a protected disclosure to Cork Institute of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, the report is outstanding. The next item is No. 1397 B from Mr. Robert Watt, Secretary General, Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, providing information requested by the committee on guidance provided by the Department to public bodies on the management of protected disclosures. We dealt with this item in private session on Tuesday. I wish to formally note and publish it....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is guaranteed to slow it down.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: That is something we will bear in mind. The Taoiseach raised this exact issue yesterday on the slides for CervicalCheck and the question of why the examination had not yet commenced by the college in the UK. The college has raised the issue of data protection and consent from each person before the reviewers look at the slides. It may be that several thousand are gone and the reviewers...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: Arising from the document and what the Taoiseach said yesterday, I suggest we write to the Taoiseach and outline these two issues on the Committee of Public Accounts agenda. We are now aware that this issue has arisen. These issues should have been addressed in the terms of reference. Everyone knew this was coming. Maybe people do not want to get around the existing legislative...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: That is a valid point. As you said, Deputy Murphy, it is not specific to the Cooke commission. Correspondence No. 1435 B is from Mr. Niall Cody of the Revenue Commissioners. It provides information requested by the committee on the nursing homes support scheme. We will note and publish it. He has given details of loans extended and collecting money in cases outstanding. ...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: We are because we only went as far as the first week in May. That will be earlier.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will come to do a report when we come back. We will certainly discuss that in terms of what we can put into our report on the issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: He had an exact formula of words that he repeated.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: He did not refer to "we" because he said he was not party to it. He said someone did it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: This topic will be covered in our next report so we can discuss it at that point.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will note and publish that correspondence. No. 1437 B is from Mr. Ger Casey, CEO, Grangegorman Development Agency, dated 27 June, regarding the Grangegorman public private partnership, PPP, project. Mr. Casey confirms that the financial close was achieved. The letter is about the cost overruns as a result of the delay. For the benefit of people watching, the preferred tender of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: Inflation would have been built into the time limit. It should be borne in mind that this was only the preferred tender and that the tender document had not been signed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: The court proceedings were initiated in 27 March 2015 and the judgment issued in October 2016 but a final close was not achieved until March 2018, which is a significant delay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: It says that it found fully in favour of the State and the process. The original tenderer was awarded the job. The issue is that there is nothing stopping a bidder who does not win a contract taking a legal challenge. The issue is whether this could have been resolved through mediation. I am vaguely conscious of a situation arising between tenderers for one of the major projects on the M1...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes.