Results 17,461-17,480 of 34,729 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is a technical adjustment. It was not captured in the Supplementary Estimate of December of that year and when the audit later came up there was an issue with procedures requiring Oireachtas approval retrospectively. It happened to be small amount though it could have been bigger. It is a technical adjustment so I ask Mr. McCarthy to prepare a note in advance of the committee meeting...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Very good. The next item, after the four statements of accounts received, is the work programme. It is on the screen in front of members. Next Thursday, we will have a paper on how to handle Stepaside Garda station and we will incorporate it into our work programme next week. I will go through the logic. Today, we have IDA Ireland financial statements. We decided at the commencement...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We might have a second meeting some week, but not too many. The Comptroller and Auditor General's report came out last Friday. It has 24 chapters. The basic function of the Committee of Public Accounts is to review those. We have to go over them. Some will be combined; three chapters relate to social welfare. Our basic work, despite everything else on our agenda, is the Comptroller and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: That would involve the HSE. It is scheduled to attend. We would have to give it a couple of weeks of notice.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Perhaps that might be in the first meeting in January. The HSE is scheduled to attend on 26 October. It may be able to attend before Christmas, but it can attend, at latest, by January.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Next week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will revisit this as a proposal for the programme.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We have to cover 24 chapters between now and next June, if we are all here.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: There is a chapter about it at the end of this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is guaranteed to.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Another matter we will have to come back to is the issue of public private partnerships. There are some 17 big schemes, ten have been reviewed and no reports have been published, as I gather. The Committee of Public Accounts is in the dark about these. We will get to them all.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: I have just given an outline of matters to address in the coming weeks.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will write to the board of the Money Advice and Budgeting Service, MABS, and the Department seeking an update on current proposals. We will put them on notice that when they come in, they will be asked about this specifically. We will write to them today asking for an update on the proposals.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will have it for discussion when the representatives come before the committee. The fair deal scheme has been mentioned. We will suspend to allow the representatives of IDA Ireland to take their seat. At the meeting last week we had a complete discussion on two matters of protected disclosures. We had a briefing and agreed to write to the people involved. We asked the parliamentary...
- Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will now examine the 2016 financial statement for the Industrial Development Authority, IDA. I would like to welcome Mr. Martin Shanahan, CEO of the IDA and his colleagues, Ms Mary Buckley, Ms Eileen Sharpe, Ms Regina Gannon and Ms Sarah Jane Hutchinson. We are also joined by Mr. Brian Walsh from the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation. I remind members, witnesses and those...
- Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Thank you. I now call Mr. Shanahan to make his opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: I will stop Mr. Shanahan there as he is about to refer to Brexit. Not a day goes by without the House discussing Brexit so we will park that. The reason I am butting in is that because of the statements in the House at 12 noon, our timetable is truncated. Mr. Shanahan was going to refer to Brexit, source markets, the organisation's performance in 2017 and its 2016 annual accounts. We will...
- Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: This will have to be the Deputy's last comment. It is his last question.
- Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy is on her last question.
- Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We would be much obliged if anyone could help on that one.