Results 18,421-18,440 of 34,729 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- 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.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: Definitely after the summer recess we can put the OPW on our work programme for an early visit because there are very extensive issues that would be of interest to the committee under our remit. We will note it for early in the work programme for the next season, if we are all still here. Next on the agenda are statements of accounts received since the previous meeting and the list is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is the residential redress special account. Moneys from the special account are used to pay awards made by the residential institutional redress board and associated legal and application costs. For the year ended 2015 the account had a throughput of €10 million and there is a clear audit opinion. We note it. If any member wants to follow up on the account directly he or she is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: Very good. There being no business other than our public session, we will suspend for a moment while the witnesses take their seats.
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: We are now back in public session. In the context of our examination of financial statements in the education sector, this meeting is a follow-up meeting relating to certain matters. The meeting will be divided into two sessions. Session A will deal with matters relating to the University of Limerick, UL, and University College Cork, UCC. Session B will deal with matters relating to the...
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: We are also joined by Dr. Des Fitzgerald, the new President of the University of Limerick. He is especially welcome here today at his first appearance at the Committee of Public Accounts in his new role in the University of Limerick. He is attending on his own here today and we appreciate his attendance. I invite him to make a brief opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: I thank the witness. The first speaker indicated is Deputy Cullinane, who has 20 minutes. We are then into ten minute slots for the remaining speakers because we have two sessions to cover today. Some of the questions may be addressed to individual witnesses, some may be to all of the witnesses together. We just have to see how the session goes. Different members will have different...
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: The ten minutes are up.
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: The next speaker is Deputy Bobby Aylward.
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: Time please Deputy, we agreed to ten-minute slots.
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: One minute. Deputy Bobby Aylward: I want to ask a question of the representatives from University of Limerick. At our last committee meeting I asked a question and I was not satisfied with the answer I got. Two professors were sent on a sabbatical - I think it was to Australia, I do not have the details in front of me - and it cost a lot of money. I asked a question about this. I was told...
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: Time please Deputy.
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: The witness will please address the questioner through the Chairman.
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: There is a cost, but there is a value as well.
- Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)
Seán Fleming: Would Mr. Gaynor say that slowly so that everybody picks it up?