Results 161-180 of 843 for garda speaker:Seán Fleming

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund (6 Dec 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...of speakers made their contributions before the break and I have a few other questions to ask. We are joined for the afternoon session by Mr. James Ryan from the Department of Defence and from An Garda Síochána by Mr. Michael O'Sullivan, assistant commissioner, security and intelligence, and Mr. Michael Gubbins, Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau. We will be dealing with the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund (6 Dec 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...'s annual report for 2017. There are a few issues in the report that I want to touch on. It is in the briefing note. The witness mentioned the emergency call answering service, ECAS. It covers the Garda, the National Ambulance Service and the Coast Guard.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund (6 Dec 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will ask the Department to send us an information note. Obviously, it is a big issue. There was a meeting on it last week. It means the Garda can almost know where everybody is in the country if they are linked into the system, just by virtue of having a mobile phone.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund (6 Dec 2018)

Seán Fleming: By ComReg. People in a car accident are often asked when they make a call whether they want an ambulance, the gardaí or the Coast Guard. Sometimes a person might want two. What actually happens? One might want the Garda if there is a pile-up. One might want an ambulance if somebody is hurt. The service is trained not to help one answer that question. It asks the caller to tell it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund (6 Dec 2018)

Seán Fleming: I apologise to the witnesses from An Garda Síochána and the Defence Forces. They might have learnt something that might be helpful in the course of cybersecurity here today, especially when it comes to rural broadband and metropolitan area networks.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund (6 Dec 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...that there were to be meetings of an interdepartmental high level steering committee involving the national cybersecurity centre, the Department of the Taoiseach, an assistant commissioner from An Garda Síochána, a principal officer in the Department of Justice and Equality, a colonel from the Defence Forces and a counsellor from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. That...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund (6 Dec 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...That is life and we all understand that. I thank all the witnesses from the Departments of Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Public Expenditure and Reform and Defence and from the Garda Síochána for their attendance and the material provided. I thank also the Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff. We look forward to receipt of the information in...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...not give us a detailed breakdown. It has just broken it down between direct and indirect costs. We have that figure in our periodic report which will be published next week. No. 1750 from An Garda Síochána is dated 26 November and provides information requested by the committee on a response to queries regarding the ICT directorate payment process and the extension of a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting Applications (29 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: 98. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when Garda clearance will be approved for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49876/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...people forget the volume of work we cover. I am not reading to members the responses. There are notes on the sale of a property in respect of Our Lady's Hospice, Harold's Cross, which is the subject to a Garda investigation and is an item on our correspondence list; the position regarding high-risk dental treatment patients; the number of unfilled posts in the HSE; the prompt payment...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...of matters from the previous meeting. We got through a significant number of items last week. I hope we will deal with all of them next week. No. 1677B is from Chief Superintendent Dermot Mann of An Garda Síochána and is dated 31 October 2018. It provides information requested by the committee on the operation of CCTV by local authorities. It sets out the relevant...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...reviewed five specific properties. The individual also provides the details of other properties on which he believes value for money was not achieved, namely, the former Passport Office and the Garda offices on Harcourt Street. The individual believes that an independent report should be commissioned by the OPW. We have dealt with the correspondence from Mr. Maurice Buckley, chairman...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...of these again because we have debated them at length. The first recommendation in the report is B.1. This letter deals with our earlier recommendations and the report we published in respect of An Garda Síochána, the Health Information and Quality Authority, the Industrial Development Authority, Transport Infrastructure Ireland, Tusla and the Health Service Executive. I...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...them as quickly as possible. This report dealt with the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment; education and training boards; the Department of Education and Skills; An Garda Síochána; the Department of Employment and Social Protection; and the Department of Finance. The first recommendation was for the Department of Communications, Climate Action and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...Caranua eligibility review forthwith. The Department stated the review had been completed and published in May 2018, which was after our report was produced. The next recommendation was to An Garda Síochána. It referred to the Garda internal audit service and improvements in respect of Templemore Garda College. That has been accepted. I can deal with all of these now. An...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...question and have been given a detail in respect of a fraction of the question. Here we are told the OPW has advised that expenditure to date is €14.1 million. Then they give us a remark about Garda overtime which might be approximately €5.2 million. We need a breakdown of the €14.1 million from the OPW. That is reasonable. We will write directly to the OPW as the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: .... Much of that might be relevant to the justice committee. No. 1635 B is also from Mr Aidan O'Driscoll, Secretary General, Department of Justice and Equality, dated 10 October 2018 in relation to the site acquisition for three new Garda stations in Clonmel, County Tipperary, Sligo and Cork, which we note and publish. No.1636 B is from Mr. Derek Moran, Secretary General, Department of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...that. We want to check some documentation before we decide to publish it or otherwise. Correspondence 1628C and 1629C, from Deputy Murphy, provide replies to parliamentary questions regarding Garda masts and properties. These matters were raised at last week's meeting. It is very interesting information.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Vote 11 - Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Collection of Pension Contributions due to the Exchequer
Chapter 3 - Control of Funding for Voted Public Services
Chapter 5 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Vote 11 - Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 95: Financial Reporting in the Public Sector
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 99: Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 100: Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2016 (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...been miscalculated for six years in a row. Whoever is responsible should be better at counting. It is a fairly straightforward issue which does not involve tens of thousands of people. On the Garda Síochána, Mr. Watt will tell me that the Supplementary Estimate is to provide for Garda overtime. However, there will be overtime next year and that should be budgeted for in the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Deer Culls (16 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...concern regarding unnecessary vilification of wild deer which is not based on factual scientific data and that some wildlife crimes against wild deer have been committed and reported to An Garda Síochána; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42366/18]