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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: If it were the case that there was a smaller engagement that morning, perhaps we could do that. However, in the case of the HSE, it is normally a full schedule. Okay, we will do that. On 9 February, we will engage with the Department of Health regarding the 2021 appropriation accounts as well as chapter 12 of the Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2021, which relates to the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: Of course we can. It is five weeks out so we can do that but we would need to do it at this meeting to give notice to the secretariat and whatever body we are trying to swap with.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: Okay. We will see how we can work this. We agreed some time back to include the Central Bank and the Office of the Revenue Commissioners in our work programme with a view to examining chapter 14 of the Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2021. That chapter concerns the assessment and collection of insurance compensation fund levies. Since 2018, the fund has been maintained and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: The Revenue Commissioners have been in before. The reason for bringing them in is specifically regarding the collection of that levy. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: Do we need to bring them in? We have had Revenue in recently.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: We will not bring them back in unless there is-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: I suggest if it is not relevant we should not bring them in because we had them here on a number of issues recently.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: Will we ask for somebody from Revenue to attend?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: Rather than bringing them in as a double-header, we could do that. It would be a better way of doing it. Is that agreed? Agreed. Does any member wish to raise any other matter in relation to the work programme? I mentioned the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and other Departments may have their finger in the pie of the forestry programme and the performance of it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: A representative from the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications should be there as well.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: We will look for that at the end of what is scheduled here. We will flag it up with those three Departments that two will be represented but the primary one will be agriculture, in the same way we did with housing. That concludes consideration of the work programme. I confirm for the secretariat that Revenue will come in on 23 February in the same way we had the Department in today, in an...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: I suggest we write to the Central Bank and Department of Finance and ask them to clarify for the committee's benefit what happened and what safeguards have been put in place. Would members be happy with that?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: The Comptroller and Auditor General is satisfied.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: It was recognised and no money went where it should not go but procedure was not followed properly.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: It is a lot of money and it is important it goes through that full circle of approval because, as the Comptroller and Auditor General points out, it is money voted by the Oireachtas.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: Okay. We will have the Central Bank in at the end of February, we hope, and we can finalise that. Do members wish to raise anything else? That is the last one. We will move into private session briefly before adjourning until 9.30 a.m. next Thursday, 26 January. Go raibh maith agaibh.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (18 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: 48. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of IDA visits with potential employers to each county in the years 2021 and 2022. [1792/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (18 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: 65. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the total number of homes that have been deep retrofitted since 1 January 2022. [63288/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (18 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: 66. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated number of homes that still require wall and roof insulation. [63289/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (18 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: 114. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the plans his Department has to support community or co-operative anaerobic digester plants. [1647/23]