Results 12,901-12,920 of 34,632 for speaker:Seán Fleming

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (12 Jun 2018)

Seán Fleming: 677. To ask the Minister for Health the number of health care assistants in the community in an area (details supplied); the number of vacancies for these positions in the area; the number of unfilled posts for these positions in the area; the position regarding the national rolling recruitment campaign in respect of these posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24645/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (12 Jun 2018)

Seán Fleming: 678. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public health nurses working in the community with the elderly in an area (details supplied); the number of vacancies for such posts; the number of unfilled positions; if the national rolling recruitment campaign is being availed of in this region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24646/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (12 Jun 2018)

Seán Fleming: 685. To ask the Minister for Health the number of community registered general nurses working in the community (details supplied); the number of vacancies for such posts; the number of unfilled positions; if the national rolling recruitment campaign is being availed of in the region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24665/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services Provision (12 Jun 2018)

Seán Fleming: 721. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive orthodontic treatment which was identified when they were in primary school and was not delivered at that time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24844/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Sizes (12 Jun 2018)

Seán Fleming: 947. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline his views on supports for farmers that are purchasing land to consolidate their farm holdings and incentives that can be introduced; when these would have effect with regard to the cost of such consolidation and the position on State levies that may apply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24258/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fur Farming (12 Jun 2018)

Seán Fleming: 990. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to deal with an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25230/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadcasting Sector (12 Jun 2018)

Seán Fleming: 1029. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when permission will be given to RTÉ to transmit RTÉ 2 +1 on a platform (details supplied); when applications for this were made; the process involved before he can give permission; the length of time this process has taken to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25163/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy. He is accompanied by Ms Maureen Mulligan, deputy director. Apologies have been received from Deputy Catherine Murphy. The next item is the minutes of previous meetings. Are the minutes of meetings from 15 May, 16 May, 23 May and 24 May agreed? Agreed. There is one matter arising out of the minutes from the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: I will ask the secretariat to go through, in particular, the Committee Stage and Report Stage debates of the relevant legislation in the Houses when the national lottery was, essentially, privatised. I would be surprised if the matter was not discussed and assurances were not given by the Ministers during the passage of the legislation. Perhaps there was a commitment. If a commitment was...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: That is right.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: It includes general advertising or whatever. The Comptroller and Auditor General audits the regulator. Would it have detailed access to such information, although it might not be in the accounts?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: Have we written directly to the regulator about this?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: She must have it then.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: We are not there yet and I do not know if we will get there. We will keep after it and we will not give up yet.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: We just have more work.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will have a private session and we might discuss that but the Deputy's point is well taken. The workload is increasing and that is absolutely definite. The next item is correspondence No. 1330B from Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú, Secretary General, Department of Education and Skills, dated 18 May 2018 providing a detailed note in relation to the following: the approach to national...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: I am conscious of that. I want to put one or two things on the public record by way of information in case the public are wondering what we are actually talking about. There are two separate reports and I am not getting into the detail but the key finding of one of them relates to a Spanish residence in Marbella that was bequeathed to the organisation in about 2008 and then there was...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: In other words they got the property bequeathed to them. They spent €69,703 getting it refurbished and transferred over and then they sold it at €37,500. They did not even cover their costs of taking possession of the property.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: That was a loss.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: It is a Committee of Public Accounts issue because this organisation gets funding through the HSE but it did not even cover the costs of getting the property transferred. They lost money on that issue, not to mind the value of the property and they have included two possibly similar properties in the appendix that were on sale at around that time in Marbella, one was for €260,000 and...