Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 January 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:30 am

Photo of Brian StanleyBrian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Can you share screens? Okay. On 1 February we are meeting with the Department of Health on its 2022 appropriation accounts, Vote 38, chapter 18 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's annual report. Representatives of the HSE have also been invited to attend.

On 8 February we meet with the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission on its 2022 financial statements. The resourcing of GSOC and timelines for processing and completion of complaints by GSOC have been flagged as areas of interest. This is going by previous meetings in respect of the shortage of resources, I suppose, for GSOC and the pressure it is under .

We will meet with the Department of Justice on 15 February on its 2022 appropriation accounts, Vote 21, prisons, and Vote 24, justice. The resourcing of GSOC and the international protection office have been flagged as areas of interest for that meeting.

On 22 February we meet with the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media, with Sports Ireland and representatives of the FAI and the SFAI. We have put a limit on the number of representatives from each of those bodies that can come in because otherwise we would have to hire a venue for the meeting with a room that would be big enough. Specific areas of interest there are the oversight and governance of grant funding providing to the FAI, including the Covid-19 relief fund; the interest-free concessionary loan of €2.5 million per annum for three years from the Government to the FAI; the memorandum of understanding signed by the Minister for sport and the FAI in January 2020; the circumstances under which an agreement for payment in lieu of annual leave was made to the former independent chair of the board, the former director and the HR director of the FAI. The next area of interest is oversight and governance of funding for the Schoolboys/Girls Football Association of Ireland, the SFAI. The next one is the FAI's proposal that revenue from tax on betting be allocated to the FAI. The last point was FAI plans for the use of the leased 30 acres at Brook Lodge at Glanmire in County Cork, which was raised by Deputy Colm Burke.

Last week we rescheduled a meeting on 29 February with Tusla for its financial statements 2022. It was also agreed at that meeting to schedule a meeting with Inland Fisheries Ireland for 7 March in respect of its financial statements 2022, which I think are ready.

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