Results 14,081-14,100 of 34,627 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will come back to it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: This makes the point again. It is the third or fourth point. The meeting with those Secretaries General was on one specific issue, namely, PPPs. They should have provided this information to us in advance of the meeting. There was no other item on the agenda that day. Yet, it is now that we are getting most of the information. We note it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: There was no EU funding.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: Will the Deputy think about that and come back? TII said it did not have an obligation and was not opening up its-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: Absolutely. We note and will come back to that item. We will note and publish that. No. 1128 is from Mr. John McKeon, Secretary General of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, and relates to an internal audit report on the activation and family support scheme. We will note and publish that. No. 1229 is correspondence, dated April 2018, from Gerard Cahillane, a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: We have already received it from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. It is in our previous correspondence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes. We have received that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes. We received that earlier. It can be recirculated. No. 1173, dated 1 March, is a request for an extension to the tax relief scheme for drivers and passengers with disabilities. This relates to a specific case. It is not a matter for the committee to deal with a specific case. We will just note it. The next item, No. 1197, is from Professor Patrick O'Shea, University College...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes. It carries over from year to year. The account does not cease at the end of the year. Does the Comptroller and Auditor General audit that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: Who audits it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Courts Service deals only with the cash handed in to the court poor box. What we are really highlighting is that there were two other lines of funding, directly to charities or local organisations or via the Probation Service, that do not go through the poor box at all. That is the essence of the question.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: Each District Court has its own.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: The local judge has the say in that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: The next item comprises Nos. 1211, 1214, 1219, 1220 and 1224, correspondence from a company called Drumderry Aggregate relating to St. Conleth's community college, Newbridge, and a number of health and safety. The matter was dealt with on several occasions. The Department has stated that the mandatory tests in respect of St. Conleth's were provided and the Health and Safety Authority has...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: The man was dismissed by the Government.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: He wrote again yesterday.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: Probably ten or 15. He wrote again yesterday. We want to look at yesterday's correspondence, which I received only last night-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is very limited. It was a Government decision. The matters in regard to the dismissal of a prison officer went before the Cabinet. The individual has been informed of that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will look at the other information. I do not see the role for this committee, to be truthful, but we will not close off the case until we consider yesterday's correspondence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Seán Fleming: No. We just received correspondence last night and have not read it yet. The man has written to us three times in the past week. We did not get an opportunity to read the two items that arrived in the past couple of days. When we do so, we will come back to the matter next week. No. 1216, dated 7 April, is from an individual and concerns St. Angela's College, Sligo, Limited. Can we...