Results 7,421-7,440 of 20,062 for speaker:Brian Stanley
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Feb 2023)
Brian Stanley: Additional to the issue raised with regard to the letter, Deputy Dillon wants us to write to the Secretary General of the Department to get information on what powers he has and what normally happens in these situations.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Feb 2023)
Brian Stanley: We will come to that later and of course we can. No. R1710C, dated 28 January 2023, is on governance matters at the Citizens Information Board and funded service companies. It is proposed to note and publish this correspondence. Is that agreed? Agreed. We should ask the Citizens Information Board and the Department for a response regarding the €8 million reported as being...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Feb 2023)
Brian Stanley: Please do. Deputy Paul McAuliffe:I thank the Chair. It is a simple enough matter. I would like us to get a response from the Department on this. It refers to the Whitehall College of Further Education building constructed by Western Building Systems. There is a legal dispute that has resulted in the building not being occupied for several years. To start our work on this, I propose that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Feb 2023)
Brian Stanley: That is a straightforward request of the committee. Is it agreed that we do that? Agreed. I thank Deputy McAuliffe. I will now move on to our work programme. Next week we will resume our engagement with the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth with specific focus on direct provision expenditure, international protection and emergency accommodation. On 23...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Feb 2023)
Brian Stanley: Yes. We can ask the secretariat to do that. That concludes our consideration of the work programme.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Feb 2023)
Brian Stanley: The Deputy may raise it now.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Feb 2023)
Brian Stanley: I do not want the Deputy making specific allegations against an individual or entity.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Feb 2023)
Brian Stanley: We will take that into consideration. We agreed to asking representatives of An Bord Pleanála to appear as well. The meeting of 23 February was postponed. We should try to pin down a date with them as soon as possible. It is one of the meetings we agreed on previously. That concludes our consideration of the work programme for today.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Feb 2023)
Brian Stanley: Of course.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Feb 2023)
Brian Stanley: If they are invited in too soon before the reports-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Feb 2023)
Brian Stanley: The last item on the public agenda is any other business. Since there is none, we will move into private session briefly before adjourning.
- Mortgage Interest Relief Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Feb 2023)
Brian Stanley: Mortgage holders across the country are really struggling at the moment. I have been getting representations and complaints on this from householders in Laois-Offaly, especially over the past couple of months. There is a significant problem with the cost that is coming on top of the cost of living. Some people have been hit with interest rate increases of 3% plus and this means an extra...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023) Brian Stanley: I welcome everyone to this morning's meeting. We have received apologies from Deputy Colm Burke. Members and witnesses attending from within the committee room are asked to exercise personal responsibility to protect themselves and others from the risk of contracting Covid-19. Members of the committee attending remotely must continue to do so from within the precincts of the Parliament...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023) Brian Stanley: We will now move to the HSE. There is five minutes for the opening statement and I ask Mr. Mulvany to keep to time. Before he starts, when he was drafting his statement the nursing home issue was not live. If he wants to make a brief reference to that in his opening statement, he should feel free to do so.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023) Brian Stanley: Could some people have had medical cards?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023) Brian Stanley: Okay. I thank Mr. Mulvany. Deputy Devlin is first.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023) Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. Mulvany-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023) Brian Stanley: We will ask Mr. O'Grady from the Department whether he has any information on this. I ask the Deputy to be brief as we have gone over time.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023) Brian Stanley: That point is taken.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023) Brian Stanley: Can Mr. O'Grady, who is representing the Department, shed any light on this?