Results 12,441-12,460 of 34,632 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: Fine. I call Deputy Catherine Murphy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: Deputy Catherine Murphy believes it may be relevant to the commission's terms of reference. She knows as much as I do; I have no further information in that regard. We should not second-guess Mr. Justice Cooke, who states that some of the information is relevant to his terms of reference. We have no idea whether it is a little of the information or all of it. I do not think we can ask him...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: Would it be helpful to the Deputy to go into private session to discuss this?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: Given that people are interested in the public hearings relating to Project Eagle, it must be pointed out that because some individuals were under investigation, we chose to not bring them into the committee so as not to give them any parliamentary privilege. We made the choice to not bring them in. In this instance, I would be of the same view; we have chosen not to go there.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: We have yet to cover the committee's work programme, so we can discuss it then.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: I propose that we go into private session for a short while.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: There is one item of correspondence in respect of Cork Institute of Technology, CIT, which we mentioned previously and Deputy MacSharry wants to speak on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: I call Deputy Kelly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: What do members propose that we do?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: The point has been well made. We will have a more comprehensive discussion on this matter next week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: I must deal with one last item of correspondence now that we have resumed in public session. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien wrote a letter to us asking that Tusla be brought before the committee. He did not give a detailed specific reason but I suggest that we add the matter to our work programme. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: No. The HSE is due here next Thursday and we will meet Tusla in the autumn. I wish to refer to correspondence that has been received on behalf of Mr. John Miskelly. Before we went into private session I read into the record a copy of the letter received from Ms Susan Gilvarry, solicitor to the commission of investigation into Project Eagle. I confirm that the clerk to the committee...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: When will the report be available to the committee? Does it have to be sent to the Minister?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, we will.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: In any event, we are returning the dossier to the legal firm that sent it to us. We wish the commission every speed with its investigation. I believe it has indicated that it hopes to conclude by December. In the meantime, NAMA will be before us in September in the normal course of events. I have noted that Deputy MacSharry wants to raise another matter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: I thank the Deputy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Comptroller and Auditor General wants to comment on this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: The next item on the agenda is statements of accounts received since our previous meeting. Only one account has been received in the past week, which is that of IDA Ireland and to which a clear audit opinion attaches. We will note it and move on. The next item is our work programme.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will send a letter to IDA Ireland seeking an update on where the issue relating to ConnectIreland stands. Today we are dealing with the Tax Appeals Commission and the Revenue Commissioners. The appropriation accounts for the Vote of the Department of Health, the HSE's financial statements for 2017, which were recently issued, and matters relating to consultants' pay, are on the agenda...