Results 12,381-12,400 of 34,627 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- 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-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: There was an advertisement in a newspaper-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes. Some 25 submissions were received. The issues centre on what happens to people in their employment after they make submissions. The process can go on for a long time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: We did not. We also need to ask Mr. Watt how the process was carried out-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: -----who was notified and what the procedure was. I am guessing that line Departments were probably aware of it. I was not aware that the report was coming within a week or two until I read the letter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: I ask the secretariat to have a note for us on this issue at the next meeting, or as soon as possible, because we will not be here for too many more weeks.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: It might not be comprehensive, but we need the three or four in front of us. In the meantime, we can find out about it because it is a public process. We will come back next week for definite to the issue of protected disclosures and discuss how we will handle it from there. I understand we do not want to leave things in abeyance for a long period. The next item is No. 1400B, also...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: I have looked at the letter again and propose that we write to the regulator which comes within the remit of the committee, while the operator does not. The letter from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform reads:Expired unclaimed prizes are transferred on a regular basis from the Prizes Bank Account to Premier Lotteries Ireland DAC General Bank Account where they are used for the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: Is the the report of the independent review group on the Department of Justice and Equality the Toland report?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will do that directly. We will also consider all the responses as part of periodic report, but that is in the autumn. There are three items from the Health Service Executive. Correspondence No. 1406 from Mr. Ray Mitchell is a copy of the contract for the CervicalCheck provider. One relates to the master contract for MedLab Pathology Limited, while the other relates to a copy of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: Dunmore-Durrow.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Department of Justice and Equality.