Results 11,901-11,920 of 34,618 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: We ask Mr. McCarthy to take this correspondence into consideration and, if he feels there is an issue, to come back to us in due course.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: Perhaps Mr. McCarthy will respond. As part of his annual report, under which Department does the public services card come?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General has compiled a chapter on this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: Perhaps Mr. McCarthy might write an updated paragraph, if feasible, or he can come back to it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will include a meeting with the Department in our work programme when we return in the autumn. We will flag that one of the items for that meeting will be the need to update this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: For public services. If one has no dealing with the public services, one does not have to have one-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will in the autumn with the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. We will deal with that specific item on the day.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, and then we will also say we want an update on which public bodies do and do not have access. This issue could have arisen in other public bodies that are given money and get ready to use it and then find they have no statutory or data clearance to use it. The matter might not have been specific to this organisation, so we will try to get the fuller picture on it in the autumn. No....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: It involved hacking emails.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: Here are three examples of cyberfraud that we have spotted this year. That is an issue the Committee of Public Accounts certainly needs to come back to, because this is fraud targeting public expenditure, and represents a loss to the taxpayer. Cyberfraud and the associated public losses are another item for the work programme. I refer to the circumstances that gave rise to this incident....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: A loss to the college.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: As such, it was a straight loss to a third level institution.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: Here we go again.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: That is the difference.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: We have been pleading with the universities to consolidate the foundations they control, and when they take control if something goes wrong, they carry the can. This sequence of events is unfortunate.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: It probably brought somebody in to do the investigation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will come back to this in our work programme. We need ask every Accounting Officer standard questions about cyberfraud in their organisation, specifically what measures they have in place and whether there have been any incidents of cyberfraud. Maybe there are incidents we do not hear about.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: There is a Garda investigation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: There is a police investigation under way in Ireland, the UK and Germany. We will ask for a breakdown of the loss in the meantime. We will also put the issue on our agenda for the autumn. No. 1480 is an anonymous item of correspondence regarding land in Ballsbridge which the correspondent states is owned by a particular developer in the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA. I have...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: I do not know which was the chicken and which was the egg. At this stage, I propose that we write to NAMA to seek a response to the issues raised. However, we will not get into any matter that has the potential to be defamatory or anything of that nature. We will write to NAMA but we do not want to send this letter to NAMA in case it is defamatory. As this is the last meeting, I do not...