Results 1-20 of 225 for going forward speaker:Brian Stanley

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: ...the area engineer deals internally in the council, working with the councillors and other council staff, an active travel project can happen in their area and they will not have a clue what is going on because it is a completely separate channel. That needs to be dealt with at local authority level. The area engineer needs to be the person responsible for roadworks, including active...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: -----under all those headings of value for money, due diligence and accurate information going to the governing authority. There is a whole list of failures. I look forward to the representatives appearing before the committee. I am also interested to hear the HEA's explanation as to how this debacle came about.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2024)

Brian Stanley: .... It is in response to correspondence the committee received from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage on the national monument in Moore Street, which the committee agreed to forward to the group. Is it agreed to note and publish this correspondence? Agreed. I flag this because the issue of Moore Street and the national monument is going around the Houses. While...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: ...Kolbe Special School in Portlaoise, County Laois. The committee considered previous correspondence from the same person at a meeting on 23 March and in private session on 20 April. The matter was forwarded to the Joint Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science for its consideration. It is proposed to consent to forward the correspondence to...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Brian Stanley: This is an area of concern. It will need to be monitored. I thank Ms Stapleton for the answers and information. I thank the Housing Agency and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform for attending and preparing the documents for today. I also thank the Comptroller and Auditor General and staff for...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...will not be idle. Members may have issues coming up that are not scheduled for. Sometimes the unknown can provide quite a lot of work for us. If there are other suggestions, please put them forward because the schedule for the first half of the year is yours and it is important that the members make an input. Is the work programme, as set out, agreed? The proviso is that the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...from and related to private individuals, and any other correspondence. No. R2243 C, dated 20 November 2023, is from Deputy Imelda Munster, a member of the Public Accounts Committee. She has forwarded correspondence from an individual concerning Greyhound Racing Ireland and the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund. In our report on Horse Racing Ireland, the committee recommended that the...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 5: Vote Accounting and Budget Management (16 Nov 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...say this to Mr. Moloney. I will give him a few examples. In 2021, TII gave Laois County Council - I am not trying to be parochial here; it is a concrete example of the type of absolute nonsense that is going on - €200,000 to install a footpath and some public lighting on the Cork Road in Durrow, County Laois. It was badly needed for new estates that needed to be serviced, and...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 5: Vote Accounting and Budget Management (16 Nov 2023)

Brian Stanley: Does the Department have staff for this? From watching these assessments that are referred to external consultants going back and forward, the Department will have a fair idea of what the issues are. The staff in the various offices in the Department will be aware of them. Are there staff there that have competence in terms of carrying out those assessments in-house? That would speed up...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023)

Brian Stanley: -----instead of sheets of paper going back and forward between the 31 local authorities.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...of the committee are concerned that there not be compulsory redundancies. I am aware this is a work in progress, but will Mr. Bakhurst briefly explain what funding model he thinks is required, going forward?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)

Brian Stanley: Okay. That concludes our questioning. I know there have been some robust exchanges back and forward. Before we conclude, I wish to state that nobody was questioning the professional integrity or the professionalism of the legal services at RTÉ. There is a difference of opinion. At the start of the meeting, I said that I and other members have disagreed with RTÉ's decision not...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2023)

Brian Stanley: Fáilte ar ais. The public business before us this afternoon is as follows: accounts and financial statements; correspondence; work programme; and any other business. Before we go on to accounts and financial statements, members might note that today is the last day for Shane O'Connor to be here and acknowledge his work. Mr. O'Connor was seconded from the Comptroller and Auditor...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: Yes, unless what somebody gave me is fraudulent. It shows that there are investors who put in money. The money does not go into the project, but what appears to have happened are situations where that agent was allowed to continue, investors were allowed to continue, the projects were kept open, and the money was still being put forward by some of these international investors. This was...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...for the work involved. I thank Mr. Seamus McCarthy, the Comptroller and Auditor General, the members of his staff who are here today and the other staff who assisted in this work and brought forward some of these issues. Is it agreed that the clerk will seek follow-up information and carry out agreed actions arising from today's meeting? Agreed. Is it agreed that we note and publish the...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...one facility very close to me where many people died over a weekend and the protective clothing was not available. It was in the worst part of the emergency. We cannot do anything about that but, going forward, it is that we do not get ourselves into that situation again where we are depending on somebody to go to China and use a contact they have there, who may be an unreliable one....

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: Is there a high level of co-operation there? If we go back to the incidence of foot-and-mouth disease, the 32-county approach saved the country. I remember the outbreak as a child in the late 1960s when we had to put our feet into a bath of water with disinfectant. We have the advantage of being an island and everyone gets the logic of having the checks at the ports, bar anyone who does...

Re-introduction of Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...of a cost-of-living crisis. We do not need to be reminded of this but I will say it. It is in the context of sharp increases in the cost of energy, transport, food and so on that we are putting forward a modest measure. Sinn Féin is calling for a targeted, temporary mortgage interest relief scheme. We had mortgage interest relief in the past. It was open-ended. Indeed, the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Chapter 14 - Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies (Resumed)
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021 (Resumed)
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (Resumed) (20 Apr 2023)

Brian Stanley: They finished up in the least affordable way forward because they wound up in a poorly regulated private rental sector or some of them became homeless. That is what actually happened. The Central Bank failed to intervene, or, if it did intervene, it may have actually added to the problem. It resulted in a situation in which those people who are still in their homes, when the loans have...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: ..., Portlaoise, County Laois. It is proposed to request information from the Department of Education on the matters raised regarding public expenditure and request the correspondent's consent to forward the correspondence to the Joint Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science also for policy considerations. Is that agreed? Agreed. This is an...