Results 18,341-18,360 of 34,663 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: I will outline what we are going to do. We are going to write to Irish Water directly because, even though it is ostensibly a commercial semi-State organisation, it is substantially funded by the taxpayer through the Vote of the relevant Department and through motor taxation receipts. Since it is substantially publicly funded, we have an interest in it. Therefore, we will write directly to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: It would be responsible to the line committee in the Oireachtas rather than this committee. Irish Water and the regulator are answerable to the Oireachtas line committee, as opposed to us directly. Considering the Deputy's letter and the fact that Irish Water is publicly funded, we will write to it. We could refer the matter to the other committee but, because it is publicly funded, we...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: No. The communications regulator is over Irish Water. His role covers Irish Water and energy. It comes under energy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: It was the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: This is not about local authorities.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: There are several amendments to that Bill. Will we agree to write directly to Irish Water and ask it for a note on its procurement process?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: That is very simple. We just do not know the answer off the top of our heads. It can be established very quickly. I will send a note to members tomorrow on which Department is the line Department. I am a little confused because the regulator over Irish Water is under one Department but the funding comes from the other Department. Two Departments actually have responsibility. There is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is a bit like CIE. It gets a public subvention. It receives funds from a line Department and the Vote of that Department comes under our remit. As with CIE, Irish Water gets a subvention from-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is reportable to the line committee but, because of the public funding aspect, I believe we have a direct line there as well. The motor tax receipts go through the local government fund.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: And the Comptroller and Auditor General audits those.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: Our committee considers that funding. That aspect of its funding comes under the remit of the Committee of Public Accounts. That is why we can write to Irish Water directly. We will confirm which Department covers the communications regulator. It would be useful for us to have a briefing note. Somebody in the Oireachtas might get it out to us. The next item is 610C, correspondence...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: I reiterate Deputy Connolly's point. The Committee of Public Accounts meets for a minimum of almost a full day every week. Some committees meet weekly and some meet once a fortnight. Since last summer, we have been meeting practically twice a week. Therefore, the workload of the Committee of Public Accounts is extraordinarily extensive. The staff allocated to us are stretched beyond all...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: That is agreed. We will try to have the meeting next Wednesday, possibly. The next item of correspondence is from Deputy MacSharry asking whether we can request any and all communications between the Department of Justice and Equality and the director of finance and-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: -----PricewaterhouseCoopers, PwC, in respect of any attempt to secure charitable status for the Garda College. Does the Deputy want to comment?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: Could the Deputy explain the role of PwC?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: To help us, what is the reference to PricewaterhouseCoopers?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will write to both sides, namely, the Department of Justice and Equality directly and An Garda Síochána.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: And the request is the information is to be here by next Wednesday.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: That is the request to An Garda Síochána. We need to communicate that we want all the information on everything requested during and arising from the four public meetings to date back here by next Wednesday. We will be discussing our draft report on Thursday and we want to have the full complement of documentation. We may have further points of clarification at that stage, but we...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will come back to that correspondence.