Results 19,421-19,440 of 34,729 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: Does Deputy Cullinane wish to talk on this topic?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: Can we try and deal with the point?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: We are going to contact the Department of Education and Skills and the OPW. We will give them the transcript of what has been said and cover the points we need clarified. That letter from the Department of Education and Skills does not clarify the matter at all. It is actually confusing because on the one hand, it claims that the legislation states they shall pay their own costs, while in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: We are concluding this. We need proper clarification. That letter does not satisfy the Committee of Public Accounts in terms of clarity. We want the issues raised here and the transcript given to them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will state that in the letter as well. We have covered both of those items, Nos. 480B and 481B. I also want to record apologies from Deputy Alan Farrell who is not here this morning and has sent me a note. The next correspondence item is No. 478B from Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú, Secretary General of the Department of Education and Skills, providing the committee with the terms...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: It does not mean that at all. We had a case in Portlaoise in which a property was offered and taken back and then they offered money. There can be a lot of legal impediments to completing the actual transfer, even after people accept and agree to do something.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes, but I think we need to know whether the transaction has been completed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will specifically ask in respect to that property. We will ask for clarification as to whether all those properties that have been accepted for transfer have been transferred. There is a quite a difference between accepting and completing a transaction. The next item is Nos. 494(B)(i) and (ii), from Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú, Secretary General in the Department of Education and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: I would not have thought so. It is just the greyhound board resuming the discussion. We can follow up items by way of subsequent requests afterwards. Correspondence item 497B, dated 16 May 2017 from Bord na gCon, provides follow-up information from our meeting two weeks ago on pensions, employment details, Harold’s Cross stadium, the marketing strategy and a note on the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: He would not expect us to hold things up. His letter is on the record and we appreciate his letter. He is just not here in person.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will proceed with that straight away. I will inform Deputy Farrell of that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will look at that report in September 2018 if we are all here. Nos. 499C (i) and (ii) are correspondence dated 2 May 2017 from the Oireachtas Library and Research Service requesting permission to circulate a report requested by the previous Committee of Public Accounts on the remit of the Committee of Public Accounts. A copy of the document was requested by another Member of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: We know that but it is still 17 months since year end. The Comptroller and Auditor General might have completed his work some months ago and it took-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: I thought three months was for special reports. Is it for annual reports?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will come back to that separately because there seems to be an unnecessary time lag. We will go into private session to discuss the work programme with regard to the issue of the whistleblower in the Grace case and the interim audit report on the Garda College in Templemore. Is there any other business?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes. As there are no other items, we will go into private session and will resume in public session with Bord na gCon.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: We return today to the 2015 financial statements of Bord na gCon. We are joined from Bord na gCon by Mr. Phil Meaney, chairman, Dr. Seán Brady, interim chief executive officer, Mr. Michael Murnane, chief financial officer, Mr. Colin Walsh, director of commercial operations, Mr. Pat Creed, board member, Mr. Pat Herbert, board member, and Mr. Joe Lewins, director of IT and tote. We are...
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: If it is not possible, the meeting will have to suspend for more than an hour. I understand there will be six or seven divisions, which will mean suspending until well after 2 p.m. if our deliberations are not concluded when the voting bloc commences. I will advise later as to when or if we expect to resume proceedings in the afternoon. I invite Deputy Catherine Murphy to resume her...
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy is free to come back in later on.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: Might I help the Deputy?