Results 41-60 of 843 for garda speaker:Seán Fleming

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...so I suggest we hold it over to another day. I have not had an opportunity to read through it. It is too large to discuss today. Is it agreed to hold it over? Agreed. No. 2373 is from An Garda Síochána dated 5 September 2019 providing information requested by the committee at the meeting on 9 May 2019. There is some interesting information provided. We asked why there was...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: There is no incentive for the Garda to spend its time collecting money that goes into the central Exchequer. That is something we will come back to. I am not suggesting debt collectors, because that was raised. The point is that, in some regions people, even when they are handed down fines in court, ignore them and the fines are never paid, collected or followed up. That is another...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: I presume the Garda would be entitled to have more of that information than a local authority.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...it is liaising separately with the association on the particular issuesand has invited the association to furnish specific information and evidence to back up its assertions regarding enforcement activities by An Garda Síochána. In its conclusion, the Road Safety Authority acknowledged that its enforcement checks are constrained by limited resources, absence of fixed charges,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...executive officer of the Health and Safety Authority, dated 18 July, in response to a request regarding matters raised with us in correspondence in regard to the installation of cell windows in Garda stations. The authority is satisfied that there are no matters of concern which require further action under its legislative remit. It advises that the relevant Department is the Department...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...There is a note on the investigation into the hospice at Harold's Cross. It states that the matter is with the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions which is addressing some further queries with An Garda Síochána. No further information is available. We have been receiving correspondence directly on the issue and that is the position, as it stands. We will forward any...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...routinely requests the correspondent's permission and, in this instance, the company has declined to provide consent for this purpose. The matter relates to specifications for cell windows in Garda stations and courthouses. The correspondent believes the winning tenders are not meeting the health and safety specifications set out in the tender documents. I propose to write to both the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: It was about glass blocks in the prison and Garda stations.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Recruitment (2 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: 347. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applicants in respect of previous Garda recruitment campaigns that are still being processed in respect of the competitions advertised in December 2013, January 2016 and September 2016, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28151/19]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...of Justice and Equality in response to an inquiry made by the committee about the operation of CCTV systems by local authorities. We had previously received responses from the Department and An Garda Síochána. The Department is now forwarding a response from the County and City Management Association, CCMA. The Department advised in December 2018 that 28 of the 31 local...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...the board. The obligation is on the boards to submit their accounts and I want chairpersons of respective boards to be conscious of that. We will continue with correspondence. No. 2271, from Garda Commissioner Drew Harris, dated 17 June, provides further clarification to his evidence to the committee on a specific employee case that was mentioned on 9 May. We will note and publish this.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: We know there is a Garda investigation into it. The committee has been inundated with correspondence on the matter every week. Will the Department send us a note on where the investigation is at? I have told those who write to the committee that if the matter is being investigated by the Garda Síochána, the committee will not examine the matter in the meantime. The witnesses...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Insurance Fraud (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: 112. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on establishing a central Garda resource specifically tasked with investigating fraudulent cases involving insurance claims; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25873/19]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...matter. No. 2222B is from Mr. Maurice Buckley of the Office of Public Works, providing information requested by the committee regarding the costs, oversight and procurement process of the Kevin Street Garda station project. This matter arose at our recent meeting with An Garda Síochána on 9 May 2019. The OPW came back with a letter. We will note and publish this. It seems to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...received from a glazing company, dated 4 and 5 June, requesting the committee to make inquiries regarding what the individual sees as procurement failures by the OPW of anti-ligature glazing in Garda stations. I must be upfront on this one, without revealing the person's name. This is a company which has a commercial interest in tendering for all these projects and which did not get any...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: If the committee recalls, we had the Garda Síochána in here talking about its Vote and expenditure on contracts the previous year and we mentioned Garda stations overrunning. This is in relation to contracts in previous years that have been audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General. We just want to know, and I will wait for the confirmation of the OPW that it and the Garda...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...have cost the taxpayer significant money. He is saying there are procurement failures by the OPW that have cost the taxpayer money. We cannot ignore the opening sentence. We will write to the Garda and the OPW for a response to the issues highlighted without getting into the specifics of the contract - the safety measures - and ask if they are satisfied that it was appropriate. The...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...for us and requires no further action. The correspondence is noted. Item No. 2229C is correspondence, dated 11 June 2019, received from Deputy Cullinane, concerning clarification given by the Garda Commissioner, Mr. Harris, on evidence given to the committee. Deputy Cullinane sets out a number of additional questions that require a response. Does he wish to comment?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...a legislative proposal for the guardian ad litemsystem and a new bail supervision scheme. Mr. Lynch went on to talk about child protection issues, in particular, the policies and operations of An Garda Síochána and Tusla. We are talking about children and much of the opening statement was about the criminal justice system and engagement with it. That is only an observation; I...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...the other items of correspondence first. No. 2160 from Mr. Maurice Buckley, chairman of the Office of Public Works, provides information requested by the committee on the leaking roof in Schull Garda station. The OPW states that there was no obligation on the construction company to fix the roof as the six-year liability period had elapsed. I propose we forward a copy of this...