Results 17,201-17,220 of 34,663 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will write a letter asking for a note on the issue of the legal costs and any effects on services. We will get the audited accounts before us in the coming weeks. We will look to see if there is a note in the accounts and we will decide when we get the accounts. In the meantime, the committee will write to the college and the Department. The correspondence might deal with the issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: No. 801C, dated 6 October 2017, is correspondence from Deputy John Brady relating to Kildare-Wicklow Education and Training Board, ETB. We have covered this and we will write to the Deputy to inform him that the committee will be addressing the matter once we have received the Department’s report on the matter. Is that agreed? Agreed. No. 802C is correspondence, dated 5 October...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: I have a question on that. The intestate fund account receives the proceeds of unclaimed assets. Does this include the assets of companies that have been dissolved? Does the Comptroller and Auditor General understand my point? I am referring to companies that have been dissolved.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Does it come through the Department of Finance?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Can the Comptroller and Auditor General send us a note on that issue because as a parallel issue this related to individuals' unclaimed assets?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: There is a clear audited opinion for the National Cancer Registry Board. In respect of the fisheries harbours centres there is a note about significant delays in the preparation of the auditable accounts, the billing of harbour dues and of rental income and the effectiveness of debt collection.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Fine. I thank the Comptroller and Auditor General. We note that. The next item on our agenda is the work programme. We have discussed No. 20 on the programme and I will ask the secretariat to come back to us on that matter next week and take account of what we have already mentioned. There is one matter we might want to deal with in private session. It will take two minutes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We are now back in public session and this morning we will examine the 2016 financial statement for Transport Infrastructure Ireland. I welcome Mr. Michael Nolan, chief executive officer, CEO, of Transport Infrastructure Ireland. He is accompanied by Mr. Nigel O'Neill, director of commercial operations, Mr. Michael Kennedy, public private partnership, PPP, procurement and PPP finance...
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: I ask Mr. Nolan to make his opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. Nolan. The members who have indicated will be called in the following sequence: Deputy Catherine Murphy with 20 minutes; Deputy David Cullinane with 15 minutes and ten minutes each for Deputies Shane Cassells, Catherine Connolly and Alan Kelly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes but two years were lost. Mr. Nolan cannot just shrug his shoulders because that affects the public.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: I know it was a service area but it is a very busy road and in the interests of safety, people need a pull-in point. Road safety was compromised when those rest areas were not in place. I would just make the point that it is fine to be right but in the meantime, people were negatively affected. Is there anything that TII can do to shorten that process? I know the courts are outside its...
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: People are entitled to take a case if they choose to do so. I understand that too but it is unfortunate. Deputy Cullinane is next.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy's time is nearly up.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We are tight on time. The Deputy will be able to come back in.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We are going to move to the next-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Will the Deputy excuse me for a minute? I will allow her to come back in.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: I will not. Is Mr. Nolan saying that, as part of land acquisition, this goodwill payment of €5,000 an acre, which was generally the figure paid to farmers to allow early access, is not included in the land acquisition costs in the TII's accounts?
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Mr. Nolan told us it was paid through the local authority. Does the TII not pay for that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes, so that goodwill payment is included in the TII's accounts. Of course it is.