Results 16,201-16,220 of 34,663 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: We need to do so promptly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: I have met the individual.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: He is a constituent of mine. I am up-front in saying that. It is very serious and it has to be brought to a conclusion.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will ask the Department to get us the reply and take it further as soon as we get it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: That is absolutely agreed. We will come back to this for an update at the next meeting. The next item of correspondence, No. 885, dated 7 November, is from an individual enquiring about the cost of St. Francis Bridge in Kilkenny. It is proposed that we write to the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government for a response to the letter. Is that agreed? Agreed. No. 886,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will put the witnesses for next week on notice that we will raise this issue specifically. No. 892C, dated 9 November 2017, is correspondence from Mr. John Pollock, project director, National Paediatric Hospital Development Board, providing an update, as requested by the committee, in regard to the National Children's Hospital. According to the update, the main children's hospital is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: What is the asset that it is not recognising?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is taking a more conservative, cautious approach than most other organisations.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Does the Deputy want to send a letter from the committee to establish that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will send a letter seeking the information and then we will deal with the reply. If the Deputy wants to consult the committee secretariat and read the letter before it goes out, he may do so. When we get the information, we can discuss it at that stage. The next item concerns the 2016 accounts of Institute of Technology Carlow. There is a clear audited opinion, except for...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Next are the 2016 accounts for the national training fund. Who has the national training fund?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is a clear auditor opinion as well, which is fine. The next item is the work programme, which is set for the next number of weeks. We are engaging with the education sector today and next week we will have representatives of An Garda Síochána. It is very important we contact An Garda Síochána to see if there has been any further progress on the audits that were...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Correct.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will have it for next week's briefing. It follows our report from before the summer. We need to have it on the agenda.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is there.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: The job is done. We all know the members of the Garda have a Policing Authority meeting in the afternoon next Thursday and they will have to be out of here at 1 p.m. We will get going at 9.30 a.m.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes, or we can hold over correspondence for a week. We can be conscious of it if there is something urgent.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: We can hold correspondence over for a week, bar there is something urgent. I would prefer to have it circulated as normal and we can seek agreement on what to do then. I would not like not to have it circulated. We will have it but we might not deal with it all. We can hold over some of it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: No. We have not had any word on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)
Seán Fleming: We have written to Deloitte about it.