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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: Yes, it was sent.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: There has been no response to date. The Deputy should bear in mind the timelines and that people are on holidays, not just here but also within the regulator and the national lottery. We will keep an eye on that, however. We hope to have something in the next week or two. If we have not, we need to revert to the regulator.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: That is in the hands of committee members.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: Again, it is a matter of where the committee wants to slot it in. We have a fairly extensive list of requests for people from different bodies to come in this year. If members wish to put it in, however, we can do so.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: Absolutely. It is important that we have a long list. Deputies know themselves how it works. Issues come up across maybe three or four different bodies that are big spenders where there is an urgency. It can move things around for us and priorities can change. What we do in that regard is in the hands of committee members. It is a meeting we should pencil in for the future, however. ...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: One thing is not clear from reading the correspondence. I noted a piece when I was going through the letter that comes under the subheading, "Electricity and power generation (particularly in relation to back up capacity and energy security)". The letter states: "I am advised that the figure of €1bn for backup capacity within the larger €33-€37bn electricity sector...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: In the third paragraph on page 2, on electricity and power generation, there is a figure of €1 billion "for backup capacity". It is for the agricultural sector. What is the best use for that money? How is it going to be used? There seems to be very little information to tell us that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: We should ask for clarification regarding this and specifically what measures are in place for farmers to get directly involved and what assistance is available to them. They are being told to scale down in relation to dairy or beef production. This was the one thing that was held up as being an income generator for farmers to make up for that loss. We will seek that information from the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: I will make a suggestion. It is a major initiative in respect of the forestry programme and as we will be dealing with the 2021 accounts of the Department, I suggest that we bring in the Department to talk about forestry and carbon sequestration specifically within the next months.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: What I suggest is that we ask those questions but I strongly suggest that we put this on to the work programme as well. The Deputy is correct; it will involve other Departments but the key player is the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, so we will request that information. Moving on to No. 1633B, it is from Mr. Ray Mitchell, assistant national director of the HSE, is dated...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: And the trains that are mentioned in paragraph 2?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: The letter states that turnback facilities and the layout of the existing train station at Kilcock would require reconstruction to facilitate the turnback capacity. The Deputy has more information on this than I do.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: The next one is No. 1640B, which is from Mr. Mark Griffin, Secretary General of the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, dated 21 December 2022, providing information the committee requested regarding the ownership of National Broadband Ireland and an update regarding the national broadband plan. It is proposed to note and publish it. Is that agreed? Agreed. Deputy...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: There is an industry in building the hospital, but there is also an industry here around claims.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: There is literally a parallel industry of claims. Being reasonable and practical about it, all of us would accept that with such a large project there would be a large number of claims but we are looking at numbers in the region of just over 1,000.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: There is potentially half a billion euro extra here-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: -----because of these claims.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: We have the board on the work programme.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: We should ask as well whether there are legal implications in terms of the handover. When a contractor goes on site to build a house or whatever else, there comes a point when there is a handover. The question is whether legal issues arise if there are still several hundred claims in dispute, if not all of them have been resolved and some of them are before the courts, and if there are...