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Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: Does Deputy Dillon want to come back in with a brief question?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: I am going to ask the two Accounting Officers to respond briefly on that. It is an issue that is causing problems for every one of us and it has gone on. None of us would disagree with the Deputy there. We will hear from Mr. Watt first and then Mr. Gloster.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: The negotiations are at a sensitive stage. Let us not derail them here.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: I think there is an urgency to get it resolved.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: I thank the witnesses and the staff at the Department of Health, the HSE and the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform for their work in preparing for today's meeting and for the information provided. I also thank the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General and the staff for attending and assisting the committee in preparing for today's...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: The public business before us this afternoon is as follows: minutes, accounts and financial statements, correspondence, the work programme, and any other business. The first item of business is the minutes of our meeting of 25 January 2024, which have been circulated to members. If members wish to raise any matter in relation to the minutes they should please feel free to do so. Are the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: Can we agree to note the listing of accounts and financial statements? Agreed. As usual, the listing of accounts and financial statements will be published as part of our minutes. Moving to correspondence, as previously agreed, items that were not flagged for discussion at this meeting will be dealt with in accordance with the proposed actions that have been circulated. Decisions taken...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: We note in relation to the national children's hospital that the latest update is that the opening date is projected to be the middle of 2025, with completion in the autumn of this year. We will note and publish this item of correspondence. No. R2322B is from Mr. David Moloney, Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, dated...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: We can seek answers to that. I raise the issue of capital works for flood relief. Item No. 18 in the response refers to Mountmellick flood relief scheme including the timeline and additional funding. It did not answer either of the questions on the additional funding for that. We also looked for a detailed report on Midleton and Rathcormac; I think Deputy O'Connor raised that. It is a...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: Many of those construction projects have four main stages and a number of smaller stages within those four stages. We are being told six years into it that it is approaching the end of stage 1 for a large town at risk of flooding anytime. It is under the Slieve Bloom Mountains and anytime it rains heavily, three hours later the water flows off the Slieve Bloom Mountains down into the middle...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: Terrible damage was done in November 2017 in Mountmellick. We should ask the Department what it is doing to try to accelerate these. This is not about pushing environmental regulations to one side. I accept that proper planning, environmental studies and public consultation need to be done. However, there must be a shorter timeline for all this. Deputy Dillon wants to come in. We are...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: Who outsourced it?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: The local authority can get an environmental report done.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: The people in Mountmellick heard in 2018 that there would be a flood-relief scheme and that money was there for it - €3.4 million I think it was at the time. Six years later there is still no flood-relief scheme. We have read today that it is approaching the end of stage 1. While it is not confirmed in this correspondence, the last figure I heard was that it was now going to be in...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: Perhaps we could suggest the option of the local authority. There is a line of accountability. The reason I say the local authority is that councillors can keep the pressure on it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: Let us make that suggestion to the Department officials and see what their response is and whether there are other options. The current situation is not satisfactory.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: The Deputy is right that some good work has been done under the flood relief schemes but we cannot have a situation where it takes five or six years to be approaching the end of stage one. That is ridiculous. Deputy O'Connor, who also raised this, is not here. We will look for a timeline, specifically on the Midleton scheme, which the officials did not give. I do not have much knowledge...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: We will add that to it. The next correspondence is R2323B from Mr. Graham Doyle, Secretary General of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, dated 18 January. It provides a response to questions raised by the committee regarding the national monument on Moore Street. The correspondence was not flagged but I ask members to agree that we write to the Moore Street...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: We put him on the list last week. He was central to what happened.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: Those who attended the combo meeting need to be here. I am not sure of the names of some of them. There has been speculation, but it is important that those who were present at that meeting come before us. The meeting was key to what transpired.