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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: ...have said. When they are before the committee next year we will check it out. We will send it back to the two organisations and to the other committee, because it is under the policy area of that committee. Item 152C is a letter from an individual referring to a freedom of information request that was sent to the Committee of Public Accounts. However, neither the clerk nor the...

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 (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 (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,...

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 (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...

Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (16 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: ...is a reason to exclude it as people in the North are sufficiently open, though it may be necessary to hold talks. Amendment No. 23 deals with receivers and administrators working for or on behalf of the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA. We are talking about people with service contracts or administrative arrangements with a State body. I presume the National Treasury Management...

Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: That is good and many people called for it. It would be churlish of people not to acknowledge the second sentence when they get to it. I tabled an amendment to the section before this, but related to this section, which was ruled out of order. I proposed there should be no application fee but it was ruled out of order because only the Minister can make such a provision. I also proposed a...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: ...to the Joint Committee on Health. I think we should also send it to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform because the issue is a difficult one. When the minimum wage rises as a result of Government legislation, those who are employing people on the minimum wage expect that the same Government would provide funding to meet that increase. The argument is that the Government is not...

Report of the Committee of Public Accounts re National Asset Management Agency’s sale of Project Eagle: Motion (29 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the opportunity of speaking to this motion. I had hoped the debate would be on the NAMA report, but the Minister feels it is all about him. It was not about him at all. It was about NAMA. There are 101 pages in the report and only two paragraphs about the Minister, but he thinks it is all about him. The litany of information the Minister made available was not relevant to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness to the committee. He is accompanied by Mr. John Riordan, who is a deputy director of audit. I am now dealing with the agenda. No apologies have been recorded today. Are the minutes of the meetings of 18 and 20 October 2016 agreed? Agreed. I want to raise a point arising from the...

Private Members' Business. Health Services: Motion (21 Feb 2012)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate and I thank my colleague, Deputy Billy Kelleher, for putting forward this motion, which covers a variety of issues in the health area. They are issues of concern for the majority of people. Every household interacts with the health service over the course of the year, whether it is at local level with the general practitioner, accident...

Sale of Siteserv: Motion [Private Members] (6 May 2015)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Private Members' motion in the name of the Fianna Fáil Deputies. I am very happy the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, is in the House to hear what we have to say directly. I know the Minister will respond in due course as the debate proceeds up to 9 p.m. tonight. The motion notes that, in 2012, Siteserv owed €150 million to...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011: Second Stage (14 Apr 2011)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. I will comment on the programme for Government and the Minister's statement, and deal with some specifics of the Bill, especially the waste management area. We are only dealing with one section of a much broader issue. In the programme for Government, there is less than a page dealing with sustainable waste policy. It rightly refers to...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: ...;s principles but there are several issues which will have to be dealt with on Committee Stage. What is extraordinary about this legislation is that it is to come into effect on 1 January 2013 but much of its critical detail is not yet before us. Many of the figures to see how this risk equalisation scheme will operate in practice will be provided on Committee Stage in the next week or...

Spring Economic Statement (28 Apr 2015)

Seán Fleming: The Minister was honest enough to later say the people of Ireland, by way of referendum, introduced these European financial rules that forced the Government of Ireland today and tomorrow, as well as every other government in the EU, to abide by these rules and regulations. That is why we have stability programme updates. The Irish people decided by referendum that we would not have runaway...