Results 17,581-17,600 of 34,663 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: I call Deputy Cullinane and we will ask the Comptroller and Auditor General to respond in a moment.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: The committee has received regular updates from the Department of Education and Skills on a property-by-property basis. At this stage, we might write to the Secretary General requesting a detailed, comprehensive report on the two separate agreements because the public is confused as to which is the original. We will need the dates of the original agreements and the valuation dates - let it...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will ask that specifically in respect of cases where transfers have not been completed. Having seen previous reports, I am aware that it has regularly been the case that the use of properties has been taken over by the State during the period in which matters relating to land registry were in the process of being completed. I am not referring to this case. In other instances, however,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will get clarification. Just because the process is not completed does not mean the State has not had the full value of it in the intervening period. However, clarification is needed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes, we want completion. That is why I said I had heard excuses to the effect that matters had to be referred to the Vatican by certain orders on previous occasions. We will note the correspondence. No. 726B is correspondence from the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform following our meeting on 6 July. The committee had requested answers in respect of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will write back to the Minister saying we want an immediate-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: We have quite an amount of correspondence following previous requests for information; practically everything. Witnesses are following through. The secretariat is keeping check of the outstanding requests and this is why this issue has arisen. We do ask for the information within ten working days, which is the normal way.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes. This has been going on for a good while.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Absolutely. It is really in the Minister's hands because we know that, legally, the liquidator cannot do it and it is being passed around.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes, that is why we wrote it. We will send the strongest possible letter to the Minister personally. We need a response-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes, but we did understand that if the Minister is responding on this issue of making an ex gratiapayment, it may have to go to Cabinet. A Minister would not be able to unilaterally set a precedent in making an ex gratia payment for unpaid wages. That was mentioned before the summer.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: I agree. I believe a significant reason for Console ultimately going bust and into liquidation was that the Health Service Executive, the organisation's funder, was not on the case and allowed this to happen.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: The things that happened in Console were wrong, but the HSE-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes. The principal reason for this situation is a lack of action by the HSE.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will keep on top of this issue. No. 734B is a note received from An Garda Síochána on 4 August regarding the interim report on the reopening of Garda stations. The note states that a final report will be submitted to the Minister for Justice and Equality and suggests it would be appropriate for the committee to make inquiries with the Department. The secretariat has written...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: As I see it, they were here in early July and decisions had been announced. We now look at the letter we received in August which says a final report will be submitted to the Minister shortly. A month after he tells us he has a report done, he is writing to us to say a final report will be submitted shortly. He goes on to say it will be presented to the Government. If it goes into the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: The issue is very clear. A commitment was given and the letter we have received from them says it was in the context of a request from the Minister in the context of the programme for Government. He knew that when he agreed to give it to us. Telling us that now, which is two months later, is of no relevance. He knew that when he answered the question. We are not seeking to know how the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: -----and we can see their report. We all know the outcome of the Government decision. We will just see if there is any correlation between the two events.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: And public money. We have followed it up with the acting commissioner, but I had intended we would write to him again to remind him of the commitment and, if we had that complete, that he would be invited. Rather than to get straight into the Garda, given that we can come to it in the work programme, we will give the Garda representatives the week to supply it. We will tell them that if we...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: I am agreeing because I have just checked who the letter came from. The note we have before us obviously did not come from the acting commissioner because Ms Nóirín O'Sullivan was Commissioner on 4 August when we received it. I am told the note we have received has come from the office of Joe Nugent, the chief administrative officer. We are now in the situation that the deputy...