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

Brian Stanley: There were two items that I wanted to address in that correspondence. One is the numbers being processed, which goes back to the point made earlier by Deputy Ó Cathasaigh about misinformation. The figures given for 2023 are that there were 13,272 applicants for international protection but only 8,938 were processed. Obviously, we would like to see all of those processed. However, if...

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

Brian Stanley: My understanding is that the governing authority made the appointment. The assumption is that when the deputy president took over the role, there was a formal procedure where the governing authority had to make a decision. I welcome the fact that has been done and it allows them to be brought in here in the very near future. We have that on the work programme. We move on to the next...

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

Brian Stanley: When you say the budget are you referring-----

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

Brian Stanley: One of the issues that came up in that area is that they administer the money for footpaths under active travel. One of the issues that comes up is - wait for it - they insist on consultants being brought in to do a design. I do not know about the other members of the committee. The person who told me that a few years ago was an area engineer. I said to him that he is a qualified...

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

Brian Stanley: One of the other things that is happening with this is that although 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...

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

Brian Stanley: If they are given an additional engineer, which is the case-----

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

Brian Stanley: I can only talk about my neck of the woods. The additional engineers have been granted. The problem is that it is two different silos.

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

Brian Stanley: Well, €200,000 was lost. I take on board what Deputy Murphy said. In this case it was not lost because of the local authority, but because of the insistence on consultants.

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

Brian Stanley: They could not be got, whereas an engineer - any engineer and there are engineers - could put it together in a few days. That is the point I am making. We will have the big discussion later.

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

Brian Stanley: We will ask about active travel. We are mainly talking about cycleways, walking routes and footpaths.

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

Brian Stanley: Okay.

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

Brian Stanley: We actually have the letter here.

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

Brian Stanley: We will get to it soon. Last week, it was agreed to schedule meetings with the Department of Transport and Waterways Ireland. The secretariat has been in contact with both regarding availability. It is proposed to hold a meeting with Waterways Ireland on 4 July. Is that agreed? Agreed. No suitable date before the summer recess is available to meet with the Department of Transport, so...

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

Brian Stanley: The secretariat has been in contact with the Department of Transport. The Secretary General of that Department will be out of the country for work reasons in the last week of June and the first week of July. The officials would be available in the second week of July, but not in the morning slot. I suggest that we need them in for a full hearing and that we should not confine ourselves to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: Yes.

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

Brian Stanley: We will move on to 9 May. As I said earlier, we now have an Accounting Officer, Mr. Kilcommins, so we will engage with the University of Limerick about financial statements. I note the president will be absent so the chancellor has been requested to attend, as have representatives of the Higher Education Authority, the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and...

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

Brian Stanley: I will come back to the Deputy in a minute. I will get a note on it. That leaves three available meeting slots before the summer recess. The committee previously agreed to examine the 2022 financial statements of the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board, IHRB, when they are ready. There is a chapter in the Comptroller and Auditor General's annual report on estates management in the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: 15. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of the mitigation measures being considered to cover losses in ancillary tourist services, due to tourist accommodation being utilised for other uses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16833/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: 31. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department plans to provide tourist amenities at the Cúil Na Móna plant at Togher, Portlaoise, along with the three bogs in Laois, that is, Cúil na Móna, Coolnacartan and Cashel; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16832/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Poverty Data (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: 95. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the scale of in-work-poverty, where, according to CSO data, the rate stands at 5.9%; and the role that a living wage plays in combatting this. [16835/24]