Results 13,681-13,700 of 34,627 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy is absolutely correct in everything he says and we will do what he requests. Essentially, the response is unsatisfactory from the committee's point of view. We wrote asking for copies of a report and the organisation responded by pointing to reports that it had already published on foot of freedom of information, FOI, requests. Those reports, by the way, are heavily redacted....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will write to-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: The document we got just contained a list of reasons why, under FOI, the original request was refused. That was sent to us but I am sure it was put up on the website ages ago. We will write back and put the organisation on notice that when we receive this information, we may decide to invite representatives in at that stage. Is that agreed? Agreed. The next item is No. 1233B,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: Mr. Harkness may be able to help with that question.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: The documents we received include a list of directors and their responsibilities, the independent auditor's report and an abridged balance sheet. There is also a reference to abridged notes to the statement. We do not see anything here that refers to income or expenditure, to what came in and went out during the year. We have just been give a year-end balance sheet. Substantial...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: From what page is the Deputy reading?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: That is a fair point.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, but the answer to that is the liquidator might successfully dispose of the asset, which is this is contract. We do not know is the answer.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: Nobody can be certain at this stage.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: Correct.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will. We asked them to leave during the previous meeting and when they returned, due to the paucity of information and lack of post-project reviews, we made it abundantly clear on the day that we would not complete our work until we received all the necessary information and we would return to that. We have made a point of not signing off any appropriation account this year that has a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: Every legal challenge delays the process by a year or two, which prevents the much needed public service that is required as part of that contract being available to the public.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: There is no evidence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: It might be, but there is no evidence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: It might be true but it might be false. We do not know, and nobody can tell us except to make the bland statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: Possibly, yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: One or the other.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will conclude. We will certainly have a deeper session on the PPPs. We will discuss it in the context of the work programme. What we will do, as part of our work programme, is take half an hour or an hour in private session to try to work out how we want to approach that and the type of questions we want to raise. We might need an external adviser to assist us in some way in our work...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: That is another day's work.