Results 19,541-19,560 of 34,664 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes. Members can see the letter of 5 April on the screen now. We will circulate copies of that again to refresh everyone's memory and will come back to it again. The letter is 20 pages long so we are not going to go through it now. I will ask the clerk to the committee to email it to everyone again.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Deloitte report?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will write again this morning to ask for that. It was stated in court that the Deloitte report was not completed. We will ask if it has been completed since then. We were told we would get a copy of it once it was completed. We will ask the HSE if it has been completed and, if so, to forward a copy to us. The next item is correspondence No. 470C, (i) to (iv), from Deputy Thomas...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Garda was examining an issue and someone backdated a signature by five months to give the impression that something was signed on 31 March 2016, but it was not actually dealt with until September 2016.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: On the face of it, Nóirín O’Sullivan needs to account to the Committee of Public Accounts as Accounting Officer for this and other issues dealt with in the Barrett report. Is what I have said accurate?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Comptroller and Auditor General is saying Nóirín O’Sullivan signed the document on 31 March, the one presented to us, on which we rely, but that a paragraph was added to it five months later.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes, at the request of the Comptroller and Auditor General. However, the onus is on the Accounting Officer of every Department who has responsibility for the statement of accounting policies and principles. The Comptroller and Auditor General signs his audit report, while the Accounting Officer signs his or her report. The clarification is that a document was signed on 31 March 2016. We...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: What he has made very clear is this. The Accounting Officer, Nóirín O’Sullivan, signed the statement of accounting policies and practices for the previous year on 31 March 2016. Five months after she had signed it, she added a new paragraph in September 2016. The document we have signed by her at the end of March 2016 could not have been signed at the end of March 2016...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: I am finishing.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: The speakers are in the following sequence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is not for him to tell us if we were misled. When I see a statement signed by an Accounting Officer, dated 31 March 2016, I am entitled to believe, as the Deputy is, that the document and its contents were signed on 31 March 2016. It is in black and white.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: The document, as printed and presented to us with those paragraphs, could not possibly have been agreed to before signing it on 31 March 2016. The document we have is something that was agreed to five months later.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: We should ask Nóirín O’Sullivan for an explanation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: Correct.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: Speakers have indicated in the following sequence: Deputies Connolly, Kelly, MacSharry, Madigan, Cullinane and Murphy. The clerk noted the sequence in which the hands went up.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: Fine. We will invite in the Garda Commissioner at an early date to respond.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: We do, as early as possible.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: Could that be clarified? It was stated in the Dáil by the Taoiseach.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: Against the Accounting Officer.