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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Dec 2022)

Brian Stanley: Members are happy enough with that. No. 1584 C is correspondence from an individual, dated 19 November. It is a press release regarding Horse Sport Ireland and the role of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. It is proposed to note this item. Deputy Carthy has flagged the item for discussion. We can hold it until next week if members so wish or we can deal with it now....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Dec 2022)

Brian Stanley: We will ask the Department for that. Do you want to ask the Department about the potential cost estimate, Deputy?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Dec 2022)

Brian Stanley: I know that since this Benefacts issue has arisen it has been-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Dec 2022)

Brian Stanley: We will ask the Department to re-confirm that figure because-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Dec 2022)

Brian Stanley: Benefacts was a very low-cost service in overall expenditure terms. The information it was able to provide was not very significant. We will ask for that. That concludes the correspondence for this week. Moving on to the work programme, we had a long discussion on this last week. The engagements scheduled to year end are as follows. Next week we will have two public engagements, so I...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Dec 2022)

Brian Stanley: It is basically that we do not all go away at Christmas without having fixtures in place for the new year because-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Dec 2022)

Brian Stanley: Members are happy enough with the schedule that has been set out. May I confirm agreement on that? It is agreed. That concludes consideration of our work programme for today. The final item is any other business on the public agenda members wish to raise. There is none. We will now go into private session before adjourning until next week, 8 December, when we will engage with the...

Toll Charge Increases: Motion [Private Members] (29 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the news that the toll increase across the PPP roads and the M50 will be deferred until July 2023. However, this does not go far enough. Workers and families across the State are in a cost-of-living crisis and the Government's only solution is to kick the can down the road until July. The Minister for Transport was notified in early September, prior to the budget, of these price...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: I raise the issue of e-scooters with An Taoiseach. Legislation is due on them soon. There is a rush on this and it has to be dealt with as a matter of urgency because we have lists of serious injuries being reported where members of the public, pedestrians, cyclists and, indeed, users of e-scooters are being injured. Many parents will buy them now as Christmas presents for their...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: -----in secondary legislation. This is an important issue, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: They are very dangerous.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: This is also in small towns.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (29 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: 116. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the threshold increase for the working family payment will come into effect. [59079/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (29 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: 122. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to introduce unemployment benefit based upon the previous employment income of a person. [59078/22]

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: I welcome everyone to this morning's meeting. Apologies have been received from Deputies Imelda Munster, Colm Burke and Verona Murphy. If attending from within the committee room, members and visitors are asked to exercise personal responsibility to protect yourself and others from the risk Covid-19. Members of the committee attending remotely must do so from within the precincts of...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. McCarthy. As detailed in the letter of invitation. Ms Boate has five minutes for her opening statement.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: I thank Ms Boate. The first committee member to speak today is Deputy Kelly. He has 15 minutes.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: Did Ms Boate say that the regulator spent money on a public relations consultant to look into how the regulator communicated with the Department and Premier Lotteries?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: I thought that was what Ms Boate said.