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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: As a result of last week's meeting about the DIT's loss of €750,000 on the library contract and the shared service agreement being operated in Limerick, we need to write to the organisation which was referenced in the president of the DIT's opening statement and ask what other institutes of technology were involved and if the organisation can give us some information on their possible...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: Is that the document Deputy Cullinane submitted yesterday?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: I confirm that on every single occasion when Deputy Cullinane spoke on that topic, and to every institution, he did not suggest any wrongdoing or fault but that he just wanted to get the facts and to find out the policy that was being implemented. The Deputy raised the management of conflicts of interest on every occasion. We made it clear that we were not asking the individual about his...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: Deputy Madigan is correct. The secretariat and I keep an eye and check. Even when we get a reply from an institution of which we might have asked eight or nine questions we might get good answers to six of them but two of them might not be fully answered. In such cases we always go back to seek all the necessary information. We give people a little time to come back to us.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: It was published.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes, it was a published statement by the Minister of State in the line Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: My view on it is this - we are in an open society and anybody is entitled to criticise our work, including line Ministers or any member of the public if they do not think we are doing a good job. People have the right to criticise us. We are not above criticism. In the press release by the Minister of State, Deputy Halligan, he also warned that any incorrect suggestions of impropriety...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will ask him if he can back it up. We will ask him to explain and verify his statement and if he cannot he should withdraw that aspect of the statement. However, he is entitled to make remarks.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: My view on it is-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: This press release appears to have come from the Department. I do not who DJEI is.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: This has come from a Department. We have a job here and we do not take kindly to Ministers or Ministers of State trying to cut across our work. I would put it this way. If he had issued it from this own constituency office-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: This is from the Department. The Deputy might want us to take it up with the senior Minister as well. I do not mind. We want that clarified.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: Issued a statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: That is the issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: Pardon?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will not go there yet.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: That is an option.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: Okay, we will do that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: That is not a coincidence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes, individual members.