Results 11,901-11,920 of 35,132 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: That is noted and recorded. The next items of correspondence are Nos. 1504C dated 30 July, 1520C dated 10 August and 1544C dated 24 August. They are from an individual on the abolishing of town and borough councils and the subsequent transfer of remaining funds-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Is that agreed? Agreed. That is the legislation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We are restating it. Nos. 1504 C, 1520 C and 1544 C concern the individual regarding the transfer of remaining funds from the town and borough councils. We previously received a similar inquiry on this matter and we replied to the individual and enclosed the information note that was received from the Association of Irish Local Government. No. 1508 C was forwarded by Deputy David...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We can forward the letter to the State Claims Agency and ask for a response. I think we will do that in the meantime in any event.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, the agency will be coming in again. The cost of CervicalCheck is part of the medical negligence issue. This was listed as part of the cases on the file.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: I think a Private Members' Bill was published yesterday by Deputy Jack Chambers in respect of the Statute of Limitations not applying in the thalidomide case. The issue has been raised outside of the committee also.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, we will get detailed clarification. I think the association phoned my office directly as well, and I spoke to someone from the agency on the phone during the summer also. Next, we have No. 1509 Cfrom Deputy Catherine Murphy, dated 7 August 2018 requesting the committee to include the national broadband plan and ICT programmes at the Department of Communications, Climate Action and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: And the lessons learnt.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: And put on our work programme.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: I think we agree to put the Department and the investment in broadband onto the work programme in terms of lessons learnt from the past and where we are going. The Government programme divides the country up into various areas, including what is known as an amber area that will be subject to the new contract where there is only one bidder. My experience is that private companies who provide...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: There are two previous reports concerning broadband that go back some years.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will get them and circulate them in due course before we come to discuss the issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We are only finishing our discussion of the correspondence. We have agreed to stop at that. That is enough heavy duty work for one morning.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: The next matter is No. 1511 C dated 9 August, and No. 1556 C dated 31 August in relation to the audit processes in the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General. The individual raises issues about the opportunities afforded to organisations to "get their accounts right". The correspondent refers to a number of different versions of Dundalk IT accounts during the 2015 to 2016 audit. Does...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: Did that relate to special reports, in particular?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is a serious matter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: The office has good legal authority to audit.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will write back to the individual who wrote to us, giving that individual a copy of the transcript of the discussion that took place.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Seán Fleming: No. 1522 is from an individual on the insurance costs for local authorities. I raised this matter earlier as part of the previous discussion on the letter from the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform regarding the value for money report carried out on the insurance costs of local authorities and the operation of the IPB. A report was published but it has not...