Results 19,561-19,580 of 34,729 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: Through the Chair. Is the Comptroller and Auditor General a member of SIPO?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: Is he free to discuss it here? Is he wearing his Comptroller and Auditor General hat or his SIPO hat?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: Does he have any difficulty speaking on the topic from his perspective?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: Okay. Does the Deputy want to take it any further?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will also write to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, which is over this from a Government point of view.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: What about the public service?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: Does that include local authorities?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: Okay. We will check up on that. I thank the Comptroller and Auditor General. No. 458C is correspondence dated 2 May from Shannon Protection Alliance requesting the appearance of a report writer before the committee. We decided at last week's meeting that this is a matter more suitable to the Joint Committee on Planning, Housing, Community and Local Government, as it is about a proposed...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: We have requested advice but it has not been received yet.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: Deputies Farrell, Catherine Murphy and McDonald are next.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: Deputy McDonald is next.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: In private session.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: I understand the legal advice is that we are not to stray into areas being covered by the commission.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: I want to make it very clear that we are bringing in Mr. Tony O'Brien to deal with the issue as well. It would be very unbalanced of us to hear from the agency but not the person who raised the original issues, once the meeting is in private session. I want to make the following very clear. There are procurement issues and various issues of a financial nature that are not specific in the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: The requestor has asked for the meeting to be in private.
- 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: No.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: Not only that. What surprised me, and I think it will surprise a lot of people-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)
Seán Fleming: -----and we have dealt with the Grace case at length here but we all turned on the radio, a fortnight ago, only to hear that the matter had been dealt with in the High Court and a settlement had been issued.