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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: The public business before us this afternoon is as follows: minutes, accounts and financial statements, correspondence, work programme and any other business. The first business is the minutes of our meeting of 22 February 2024, which have been circulated to members. Do members wish to raise any matters in relation to the minutes? No. Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. As usual, the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: I have a question about the Food Safety Promotion Board. It had a total budget of €9.4 million in 2022.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Six North-South bodies were set up under the Good Friday Agreement and this is one of them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: I am open to correction but I do not think I have ever seen the Comptroller and Auditor General raising any issue regarding any of them in terms of accounts and financial statements.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: In general they seem to have their processes-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Irish Lights is an example.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Is the Comptroller and Auditor General's counterpart in the North involved?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Do members want to raise any issues?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Is the listing of accounts and financial statements agreed? Agreed. As usual, the accounts and financial statements will be published as part of our minutes. We will move on to correspondence. As previously agreed, items that were not flagged for discussion for this meeting will be dealt with in accordance with the proposed actions that have been circulated, and decisions taken by the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: I think there are two issues with that. First, when the legal people from RTÉ were before the committee, they said they had to retain a level of independence because they were governed by the rules of the Law Society and the Bar Council. The other question the Deputy raises is legitimate. I do not know the full extent of the resources RTÉ has in the legal office - whether it is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: That would be workload, speciality and getting an outside view.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: They should be doing that from here on out. The criteria around exit packages or goodbye money should be clear, the same as it should be for redundancies. If that were clear and were abided by, you would not be getting into all of this stuff relating to legalities, legal advice, public accounts committee hearings and investigations of one kind or another. It highlights one of the things...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: What about deviating from the criteria? Was that covered in the report?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: I refer to deviating from criteria around exit packages. In a lot of cases there is deviation from the criteria. Should there be a clear set of criteria in that regard?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: It should be very clear that there must be a very good reason to deviate from the criteria. There should be an exceptional reason for it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Yes, that is the point I am making.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: I think we are okay with No. R2419 B. We will note and publish it. Is that agreed? I will move on to the work programme, which should be visible on the screens. Members have been circulated with a draft discussion document. Next week, on 7 March, we will engage with Inland Fisheries Ireland on the financial statements for 2022. Representatives of the Department of the Environment,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: She is the Accounting Officer.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Is Deputy Murphy saying it should be the Accounting Officer from the Department?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: It will be Drew Harris. The Department normally sends an assistant secretary.