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Seanad: Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2020)

Seán Fleming: ...that we were not giving it enough time and said that we should not conclude it today whereas the previous speaker complained about us giving it too much time and asked whether it was a reflection of Government policy that we were spending so much time on this type of legislation rather than other legislation that people might consider more necessary at this time. I have been given two...

Seanad: Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Oct 2020)

Seán Fleming: ...I would have a response before Report Stage. That was not a commitment to confirm, deny or release any documents. I merely stated I would have a response. Everybody in this House knows well that freedom of information requests are generally refused if the matter relating to it is part of a deliberative process which has not yet concluded. Here we are taking part in the deliberative...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will clarify that with SUSI. Correspondence No. 2571 B is from Mr. Maurice Buckley, chairman of the Office of Public Works, providing a further update requested by the committee on discussions between the OPW and the landlord of Miesian Plaza. There was a meeting in October and the OPW is following up some matters. I propose we request a further update of matters not yet concluded....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is agreed. We will write to them and put them on notice. No. 2356C is correspondence from an individual, dated 8 August, who has made a detailed submission regarding the financial situation of Irish wind farms. Related to this are Nos. 2368C and 2370C, dated 8 August, correspondence from individuals also requesting the committee to review the submission. We know this matter is not...

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

Seán Fleming: ...down fines in court, ignore them and the fines are never paid, collected or followed up. That is another day’s work. We note and publish that. No. 2374, from Mr. Robert Watt, provides copies of documentation released under freedom of information, FOI, pertaining to the national children's hospital. Some members will have seen that previously. It has been out under FOI for a...

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

Seán Fleming: No. I think they said they do not know. They have no information on the enforcement procedures in the other EU countries. They do not know. It is something that the Irish Road Haulage Association can take up through its European associates. There must be associations at an EU level for road haulage because I am sure there are issues that are not just specific to Ireland. Perhaps that is...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...to the secretariat shortly. It has arrived for me as Chairperson and I do not want to sit on it for the summer. It is a letter from the Irish Petrol Retailers Association regarding the Valuation Office and Valuation Tribunal. We had a discussion about the Valuation Office here on 27 June. The association states that more than 1,000 appeals are waiting to be heard and that service...

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

Seán Fleming: No. 2274, from Mr. Robert Watt, Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, dated 25 June, concerns information requested by the committee and the Department's communication with the Department of Health on the national paediatric hospital. A number of freedom of information requests on the matter have been processed by the Department. Mr. Watt indicates that the...

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: Next week we will want to see the number of claims that came in during 2018 as against 2017 and 2016. I hope that will prove the point you are making, Mr. Mulvany. The Committee of Public Accounts cannot make a judgment without seeing the information. I think you are getting a feel for where we are coming at for next week. It could be useful work on the part of the Committee of Public...

Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: That complaint was stated here today and we asked for a copy of that correspondence. Mr. McCarthy will be aware of that. We will also contact the Department separately. I do know if it has been requested already under freedom of information legislation. I doubt it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will note and publish it then. The Deputy can raise it again at a subsequent meeting. No. 1801B is from Mr. Paul Dunne, CEO of the Local Government Management Agency, responding to a request from the committee for a copy of the value for money report in respect of Irish Public Bodies produced in 2015. It includes a letter dated 13 November 2018 from Irish Public Bodies that sets out...

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

Seán Fleming: ...until the next meeting. We will place it in the public arena, rather than sitting on it, in order that people can see the significant costs involved. No. 1703B is from Mr. Paul Dunne, CEO of the Local Government Management Agency, LGMA, dated 2 November 2018 in respect of a request from the committee for a copy of a report arising from a value for money review of Irish Public Bodies,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will bring the discussion on the topic to a conclusion. We have to compliment the journalists and newspapers on the freedom of information requests, but it is sad when a freedom of information request trumps a constitutional committee.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...to propose that, aside from the minutes, we move straight to the work programme, which includes those urgent items. There are three items that could be dealt with next week. One is the issue of Vote 1 - President's Establishment, which is very time sensitive with an election around the corner. The second item is the issue of CervicalCheck, on which there is correspondence with which we...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Sep 2018)

Seán Fleming: As Chairman of the committee I have received several media requests from journalists who have concerns about not being able to obtain information under freedom of information legislation. A number of members of the public have also asked me to raise this. That is why. I could not say no to the media.

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2016 and 2017
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 102: National Asset Management Agency Second Progress Report
(20 Sep 2018)

Seán Fleming: If NAMA has done so, that is okay. There was a freedom of information request. I have a figure.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: The question is whether those responsible did anything in terms of national procurement when they were setting it up. That is agreed. No. 1232B is from Mr. Ray Mitchell of the Health Service Executive in response to the committee's request for a copy of internal audit reports regarding Our Lady's Hospice in Harold's Cross in Dublin. The correspondence includes two audit reports and a...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: The Deputy is absolutely correct in everything he says and we will do what he requests. Essentially, the response is unsatisfactory from the committee's point of view. We wrote asking for copies of a report and the organisation responded by pointing to reports that it had already published on foot of freedom of information, FOI, requests. Those reports, by the way, are heavily redacted....

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

Seán Fleming: In the meantime, there is a clear signal to the two Departments that the information should be provided before this day week or the Secretaries General will be here in person the following week. That is the template we are setting out from this point forward. A significant amount of correspondence has been received since the last meeting and we will go through it as efficiently as we can....

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

Seán Fleming: Yes. I propose to put this on the public record and read out the total from each of the companies. This information would be publishable under freedom of information, FOI, if any journalist in Ireland made such a request. With all due respect to what the HEA is saying, we will revisit this issue. I have seen State Claims Agency-published lists of everybody it employs and the fees paid,...

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