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

Brian Stanley: If I was a member of that pension scheme, I would be fairly happy. The pension scheme is performing very well.

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

Brian Stanley: If you calculate what is going in on interest on the loans, there is a couple of hundred million there.

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

Brian Stanley: It is closer to €200 million.

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

Brian Stanley: In 2015, it was €15.7 million; in 2016, it was €17.3 million; in 2017, it was €18.8 million; in 2018, it €20.6 million; in 2019, it was €22.6 million; and in 2020, it was €24.7 million. The investment in the national lottery is performing very well for members of the pension scheme. There is substantial money there. The borrowing is at 9%, which...

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

Brian Stanley: Is the Department aware of it? If the figure of €84.6 million is incorrect, the witnesses might come back to the committee. If it is correct, they do not have to do anything.

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

Brian Stanley: Before we conclude, we have clarified that the introduction of the two extra balls did not happen in Mr. Nolan's time. It was approved by a Minister. Am I correct?

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

Brian Stanley: Yes. I ask Mr. Nolan to check and revert to me on that. When does the term of the licence expire?

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

Brian Stanley: I just wanted to clarify that point. That concludes the questioning of the committee. I thank Ms Boate and Mr. Donohoe for attending, and their officials for their assistance. I also thank Mr. Nolan from the Department for preparing for today's meeting and for the information it supplied both prior to and during the meeting. We have covered a great deal of material and I am much wiser...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: The business before the committee this afternoon is as follows: minutes, accounts financial statements, correspondence, work programme for the new year and any other business, including a proposal as to how we might address overdue responses to correspondence from the committee. We will then go briefly into private session before adjourning until next Thursday, 1 December, when we will...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: Does anyone wish to comment on those accounts or are there any questions around these accounts?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: We will write to the RTB about that. We will also raise with it the delay in laying the accounts, and we will write to the National Transport Authority as well. They are the two bodies that exceeded the three-month period. As usual, the list of accounts and financial statements will be published on the committee's web page. Do we agree and note the listing of accounts and financial...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: We can do that. We will seek that additional information. Another issue that arises in the correspondence, as well as other information that is outstanding, relates to vacant properties. In Laois, there are seven vacant properties and the letter outlines the potential uses of them, including in one case demolition to make way for another development of a nursing unit in Mountmellick. I...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: The concern is that given the level of risk and the fact the HSE has experienced a cyberattack, it could seem like a small start.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: Yes, although perhaps there is good reason for that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: Perhaps that explains it. Category C comprises correspondence from and relating to private individuals and any other correspondence. There are two items, which we will take together. No. 1574C is from Deputy Hourigan, dated 11 November 2022, and No. 1577C is from Deputy Carroll MacNeill, dated 15 November 2022. Both items concern the Charities Regulator and the alleged operation of a...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: Hopefully we will have a reply from the Charities Regulator and, perhaps, answers to the parliamentary questions, with one or two of the relevant Deputies present. No. 1578 is correspondence from Deputy Verona Murphy, dated 15 November, about An Bord Pleanála. Since the Deputy is unavoidably absent, I propose that we hold the matter over.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: We raised this before in relation to 33 towns and villages regarding which a decision was made by two members of the board. It relates to the same company.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: Most of them, if not all. I cannot remember the detail on that. We can ask about the status and whether a review is being carried out into planning permissions for masts where the same individuals in An Bord Pleanála were involved in making the decisions and where those permissions all related to mobile phone masts. Is the Deputy happy with that?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: We will move on to our work programme. A draft of it has been circulated. Next week, 1 December, we are due to have two public engagements. The first, in the morning, will be with representatives of the Department of Social Protection, and the second, in the afternoon, will be with the operator of the national lottery. Members will be aware that a joint sitting of the Houses has been...