Results 12,361-12,380 of 34,618 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes. We will certainly speak about that RTÉ correspondence. I turn now to correspondence. Category A is briefing documents and opening statements. First is No. 1415A from Ms Brenda McVeigh of the Tax Appeals Commission and is a briefing note for today's meeting. We note and publish it. No. 1420A is from Niall Cody, Chairman of the Revenue Commissioners, and is a briefing note for...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: We would be happy to forward that document setting out those concerns.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will also ask for a timeline on the report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will write directly seeking an update on that report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will have a discussion on protected disclosures during the course of correspondence as there are one or two items there.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: There is a big picture here on protected disclosures so we will have a chat on that in a few minutes. We will write to Dr. Love on that. We will also write to the Department regarding where we are on the Kildare and Wicklow ETB. Next is No. 1385B which is held over from the previous meeting, is dated 15 June, and is from the director general of RTÉ in response to an email received from...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: We accept that. We want to move on now to the correspondence from RTÉ on the same topic. This is No. 1413C. RTÉ spoke at the same meeting on the same issue, even though the Department made that particular statement. I had asked about this RTÉ 2+1 channel. It started off as a harmless issue, but the fact that I am not getting a straight answer says something about the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: Thank you, Mr. Hurley, whoever you are. I want to go to the third page of this correspondence. Mr. Hurley has been corresponding directly with RTÉ and that is what I want to deal with. He sent a copy of the correspondence to RTÉ, which wrote directly back to Mr. Hurley and copied the committee. I want to put on record that RTÉ are dancing around this. If it would just come...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is appropriate to raise that now. Item No. 1428, from Deputy Cullinane dated 26 June 2018 requests that the committee write to RTÉ to request a copy of the Eversheds Sutherland report, which we note and publish. Will the Deputy speak on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: That is a very good suggestion.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will contact RTÉ and ask for a copy of that report immediately because we are doing our periodic report. Next Tuesday, we will have a short private meeting to consider a draft report, which will have a chapter on RTÉ and it would be good to have it before then. I suspect we will want to include reference to this in our periodic report, which we hope to clear next week before...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: Let us get a copy of it. Writing to the sectoral committee is a possibility but I ask the Deputy to hold off on that until next week. We might include a recommendation that the sectoral committee examine that in our report. We will deal with the issue next week and we will be able to move on immediately after that. I now return to correspondence. Item No. 1384 is from Dr. Graham Love,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is correspondence No. 1387 B, from Seán Ó Foghlú dated 12 June. It provides information to the committee regarding the protected disclosure to Cork Institute of Technology. The committee had raised concerns about how the terms of reference were set. I have not studied that particular letter myself.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will print that. There is so much there, we may have missed it. The next item is No. 1397. I want to deal with this broad issue. It is from Robert Watt about protected disclosures. This committee has people coming to us with protected disclosures. The committee probably needs to take a bit of time to consider how we deal with these. We have had them from justice, education, and third...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: Other Members of the Oireachtas could come too. I call Deputy Marc MacSharry who will be followed by Deputy Catherine Murphy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: It would be to give us some background information to help us, not on how to deal with each one. We could do with being briefed on the legislation and the statutory review.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: It will be early July. The last sentence in the last paragraph of the letter from Mr. Robert Watt states it "will be made by the Minister to each House of the Oireachtas by early July 2018".
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: I am reading the legislation-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: The legislation provided for a statutory review. We know what happened. It was printed somewhere-----