Results 15,401-15,420 of 34,632 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (23 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: 604. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the spouse of a person can use the income thresholds for FIS as the means test figures to grant the spouse carer's allowance in circumstances in which the conditions are being met and if the spouse is in receipt of FIS; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3200/18]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr Seamus McCarthy. I would like to begin by wishing everyone a happy and healthy new year. It is to be hoped that we will have be productive for as long or short a period as the committee is here.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: I might be repeating it next year. Who knows if we will still be here?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: I have no idea what will happen in that regard. Apologies have been received from Deputy Pat Deering. The first item on the agenda is the minutes of the meetings of 7 December and 14 December 2017. Are they agreed? Agreed. The next item is matters arising out of the minutes and I have two such matters to raise. At the meeting of 7 December, the committee requested that the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will come back to that next week because it is to be hoped that we will have further information on JobPath.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will hold that over.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will hold that item over and discuss those two topics on this day week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: In the meantime, there is a clear signal to the two Departments that the information should be provided before this day week or the Secretaries General will be here in person the following week. That is the template we are setting out from this point forward. A significant amount of correspondence has been received since the last meeting and we will go through it as efficiently as we can....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: Who commissioned the report?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: The HSE.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will come back to that. We will not discuss it any further while we are on this point, other than to say that we will come back to it. The same organisations crop up, whether the legal advisers, professional advisers or financial advisers. Sometimes a major company can provide different services to the same organisations. We will not do it today, but we might consider writing to the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: That is known as management by consultants.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: I say that facetiously. That is a facetious comment. We will come back to it. We will keep going with the correspondence. The point is made, particularly about the third level sector.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: Does the committee want to look at some of that before next Thursday?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will hold it over to next Thursday. I personally did not look at the 400 pages.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will not open up any new lines of inquiry as the commission is already in existence, whatever about looking at issues that have been discussed previously. Correspondence item No. 990 is from the Carlow-Kilkenny ETB with the information requested at the meeting on 16 November 2017 concerning key performance indicators and monies allocated to moneys invested in Coláiste Aindriú and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes. I propose to put this on the public record and read out the total from each of the companies. This information would be publishable under freedom of information, FOI, if any journalist in Ireland made such a request. With all due respect to what the HEA is saying, we will revisit this issue. I have seen State Claims Agency-published lists of everybody it employs and the fees paid,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: No, that is something the Committee of Public Accounts will not get into. Our sole role concerns mechanisms to get the €13 billion lodged. It appears that this will happen. Because it covered a number of years, I think they are dealing with each year and there will probably be a separate lodgement. It is not a question of one big lodgement for the entire period. They will probably...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is currently €2 billion in the statements.