Results 13,121-13,140 of 34,632 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is No. 1278B. We will note and publish it. The Deputy can get a copy of it directly from the system. No. 1287B, which was held over from the last meeting, is from Mr. John McKeon, Secretary General of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, following the meeting on 19 April. He provides the following documents: a code of practice for determining employment status;...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy should feel free to raise it at our next meeting as arising out of the minutes. No. 1296B, from Mr. Paul Quinn, chief procurement officer, dated 11 May, is in response to the committee's request for a note on the agreement for the provision of external investigation services in respect of the framework for receipt and investigation of protected disclosures. This framework came...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Am I wrong in saying that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, so the guidelines have been issued to the various organisations. This protected disclosure will come up again. I know of another item of correspondence raising the protected disclosure issue for next week as well, so this protected disclosure issue will come back and we can discuss it further. We have already agreed to write to the Departments of Public Expenditure and Reform and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is the big thing that was handed out-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Sorry. The request I read from is on the fourth last page. This was what we asked for.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is near the end of the main document. The State Claims Agency-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is after page 66 but the page numbers do not continue thereafter; it is not page 67. There are the six requests we made to the State Claims Agency after its appearance before the committee on 10 May. We requested "A note with the details of the interaction with CervicalCheck and the [State Claims Agency] regarding how the communication process to the women affected would operate" and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Smear tests, not misdiagnosis.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes. Those who are subject to audit.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: The smear test.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will do that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Now that the issue has been raised by the Committee of Public Accounts, some people feel the Committee of Public Accounts should not be doing the work of the Committee of Public Accounts. The letter from the State Claims Agency is headed and refers to the work of the committee. The subject was matters related to the State Claims Agency, management of legal costs, open disclosure, and the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is just in case somebody felt we were outside our remit. We are dealing only with the financial side.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will send it but we need to-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: We cannot.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy's point is well made. I made the point here on the previous occasion that there had been seven committee meetings across three groups, with 32 witnesses in attendance. I do not believe in unnecessary duplication but I do believe the Committee of Public Accounts dealt with specific issues. There was a debate at the health committee yesterday that probably covered areas that we...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: There is.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Maybe there is not a full understanding of the roles of the committees.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: I believe that is the principal difficulty because the people I spoke to did not have an understanding. I call Deputy Connolly. We need to get a response back from the HSE.