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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Our first meeting after the Easter recess is on 11 April. We will meet with the University of Limerick on the 2022 financial statements. One area of interest is governance and associated due diligence of the university's purchase of a site in Limerick city centre in 2019 and the recent purchase of houses for student accommodation in Rhebogue. Is it agreed to invite representatives of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: It will be useful to have them there. On 18 April we will meet with officials from the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth on the 2022 appropriation account for Vote 40. The international protection accommodation services has been flagged as a special area of interest. I ask members to flag with the clerk any other areas of interest they want to raise. We...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Yes. Deputy McAuliffe is a Deputy from Dublin and Deputy Devlin is in Kingstown.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Will it go as far as Deputy Murphy's place?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: The Department of Education is another one, as is the Office of Public Works. We also have the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications regarding the Comptroller and Auditor General's chapter 9 on cybersecurity, the National Shared Services Office and the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform on chapter 18. A meeting with the Irish Horse Racing...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: I am just checking as I scribbled a few notes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Is that this year?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: That has been ten years in the making.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Mr. McCarthy said the audit is for 2023. Does he think it will be ready by June or July?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: That would be excellent. This would be the first opportunity to examine Irish Water.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: It is not that we want to load everything on top of the staff of the Comptroller and Auditor General's office but it should have been under the remit of the Comptroller and Auditor General from the start. At the time, Deputy Murphy and I were the Opposition spokespeople on it. Was she an Independent or in the Social Democrats?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Was the Deputy not a Social Democrat then?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: We raised at that time the need for Irish Water to be audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: I am one of them myself. Is Deputy Burke happy enough with the work programme?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: That concludes discussion of the work programme. There are two hearings between now and Easter. We have an early Easter. The clerk has to try and line up bodies with their availability. Are members happy with the general order that has been set out?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: I propose that the engagement with the NTA be bumped up the list a bit.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: It could be a month or two before it does.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: The meeting is conditional on getting them. I generally try to work at least six weeks ahead in order that the secretariat can start lining up the business.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: We will ask for that meeting to take place as early as possible after Easter. We have now lined up our business until 18 April. We will all be getting busy at that stage with the local elections. I do not know how all that worked when TDs were running for council seats.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: I cannot see how it worked. The clerk has indicated that if members have any other proposals for the list, they should send her an email. The final item today is any other business. Is there any issue members wish to raise publicly?