Results 14,321-14,340 of 34,663 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: We have scheduled a meeting with An Garda Síochána on 31 May and I will ensure the matter will form part of that discussion.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is a lacuna in the system.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Does the Policing Authority have a role in considering other expenditure by An Garda Síochána?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: If the Policing Authority does not have a role in dealing with financial matters, this committee will have to deal with the issue. The reopening of Garda stations raises financial as well as other issues.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: I will ask the secretariat of the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality to forward the transcript of the relevant part of yesterday's meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will have the relevant part of the transcript circulated for the information of members. As I stated, representatives of An Garda Síochána are scheduled to appear at our meeting of 31 May and we will raise this issue at that meeting. Item No. 1155B is correspondence, dated 8 March 2018, received from Ms Hilary Murphy-Fagan, chief executive, National Shared Services Office,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will address that matter when we discuss the work programme.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will discuss the matter when we reach the work programme in a few minutes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: I accept the Deputies' proposal because that is how we work so many third level issues into our work programme. We will discuss the matter when we complete our discussion on correspondence. Item No. 1170B is correspondence received from Mr. Tony O'Brien, director general, Health Service Executive, enclosing a briefing note on the procurement process for legal services, as requested by the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is good to hear that. We will note and publish that item of correspondence. The final category of correspondence is category C which includes correspondence from private individuals and any other correspondence. Item No. 1138C is correspondence received from an individual about St. Angela's College, Sligo. Item No. 1144C, correspondence received from Deputy Marc MacSharry, refers...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Having reviewed the correspondence, it essentially concerns a legal dispute. The individual has forwarded a number of solicitors' letters in which a number of allegations are made. If he believes the allegations, he should pursue the matter further through the courts. If he believes there are criminal actions, he should report them to the Garda. That is not our function. For our part and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: How long ago was that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: It predates-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: On the original SIPTU-FÁS matter, it was a HSE issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Therefore, it predates 2014 and is now in the hands of An Garda Síochána which is where we are leaving it. The committee is not the Garda ombudsman. The next item is No. 1160C, correspondence, dated 26 February 2018, received from Deputy Mary Lou McDonald, thanking the committee and the secretariat as she has stepped down from the committee. We shall note and publish the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: In the previous letter he sent, he declined to attend on the specific day in question, rather than refusing outright to come before the committee. Following receipt of the documentation about alleged collusion and price-fixing, Deputy Thomas Byrne sent it to the to the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, which has investigated the matter independently of us and concluded that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will invite Nursing Homes Ireland to come before us.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: We would also have to bring in the National Treatment Purchase Fund, because it set the prices.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: That would be the National Treatment Purchase Fund.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will discuss it when we come to the work programme in a few minutes. The Deputy has made a relevant point. The next item is 1163, correspondence from Deputy Jack Chambers attaching a copy of a document relating to a document he received on the GoSafe speed detection contract, which we discussed at our last meeting. We will note the correspondence and inform the Deputy that we have...