Results 11,881-11,900 of 34,618 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: The NDFA will be before us this afternoon so we will hold this correspondence until then.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: Officials from the NDFA, which forms part of the National Treasury Management Agency, will be before us this afternoon. We will put all of these questions to them then. The questions are valid for this afternoon's session when the witnesses are here. We will note and publish this letter in the interim. It is regrettable that a bill of €45 million must be paid by the taxpayer as a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is €45 million extra the taxpayer has to pay. No. 1446 B is from Mr. Martin Fraser, Secretary General, Department of the Taoiseach, dated 28 June 2018, providing on Project Ireland 2040. We dealt with this as part of our periodic report. We will note and publish this correspondence. No. 1450 B is from Ms Breda Rafter, Government accounting unit, Department of Public...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: I have had only a quick look at it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: No, not yet. We will get that. Different views were expressed at the meeting and we wrote to the Minister. Correspondence No. 1466 from Mr. Liam Sloyan, chief executive officer, National Treatment Purchase Fund, providing follow up information requested by the committee regarding expenditure and giving a breakdown of expenditure in particular categories. Ophthalmology was €10...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will write to the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection on that, enclosing a copy of our report and ask it to consider it -----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: ----- as part of its work programme. We will leave it to it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will return to that issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: Correspondence No. 1469 is from Mr. Ray Mitchell, Health Service Executive, dated 5 July 2018 enclosing the HSE protocol for release of patient slides which we note and publish. That is relevant to the discussion we have all had earlier. It is no harm that that protocol is now on the public record. Correspondence No. 1471 from Ms Michelle O'Keeffe, Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, BAI,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: I will be launching that station when it gets going.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: Correspondence No. 1472 is from Mr. Maurice Quinn, Secretary General of the Department of Defence, date 5 July 2018 providing a note on UN reimbursements. Only €3.4 million was outstanding at the end of 2017. We note and publish that. Correspondence No. 1473 is from Mr. Robert Watt, Secretary General of Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, dated 5 July 2018 outlining the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: When the list of people who have made submissions is received, I will ask that it be immediately circulated to members of the committee. That is a simple question and could be answered in a moment, I suspect.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will ask for it to be circulated today or tomorrow. Normally the names of the people who make submissions are up on the website somewhere. We are coming back to that issue because we said in private session the last day that we would bring in somebody who is a whistleblower to test the process of the public service and how it is actually dealing with those issues.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy is right. They say that they compiled the list of relevant stakeholders and contacted them directly by email about the review, including all Departments, prescribed bodies, local authorities and Oireachtas Members who were contacted on 25 August 2017. They knew well when they were doing that, smack bang in the middle of August. Somebody rushed this off before their holidays and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: This organisation, Wind Aware Ireland, submitted a detailed report that it had produced challenging the costs and the reduction in carbon emissions as a result of the current proposal. It is a counterargument to the general thinking that it is all efficient and is reducing our CO2 emissions. The report contains useful information on the substation in County Laois. The ESB and EirGrid are...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, exactly. That is going to the Commission for Energy Regulation, including the report it attached to that email to us. Nos. 1440C and 1441C were held over from the previous meeting. They relate to HSE circulars not circulated or implemented and HSE employees who did not make the criteria in the first round of the regularisation process of the Haddington Road agreement. We noted both...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy might help people watching proceedings and tell us what the issue concerns.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: When applying for a driving licence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: Is Mr. McCarthy aware of this correspondence or has he-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: Is the RSA audited by the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General?