Results 11,881-11,900 of 34,627 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- 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.
- 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...