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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: We note and publish that. The next item of correspondence is No. 1200 B from Ms Clíodhna Guy, interim chief executive officer of the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board, dated 14 April 2022 responding to the committee’s request to clarify the timeframe for the installation of CCTV cameras at racecourses. The proposed action is to note and publish this. It is flagged by Deputy...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: It states that it is progressing to installation stage.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: The project is planned to be completed by mid-autumn.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: It has been pushed further out again. It is very frustrating. The Deputy is suggesting that at the half-year point - at the end of June - we look for an update.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: This has gone on for a long time. We will keep an eye on the matter because this is the first time I have seen a projected completion time, which is mid-autumn. We will watch this carefully. I thank the Deputy. The next category is correspondence from private individuals and any other correspondence. No. 1155C is correspondence, dated 29 March 2022, from an individual requesting that...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: Contracts to the value of just over €54 million have been signed.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: There is the car park and the pharmacy extension. We will seek answers on this.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: As to who will control it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: And the decision being the outstanding matter with regard to the land and the lease.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: Yes, and there is the ethics committee, the ethics of the hospital and all of that . No. 1188C is correspondence from Deputy Catherine Murphy, dated 12 April 2022. It is a request to the committee to request further information from An Garda Síochána arising from the committee's meeting with An Garda Síochána on 31 March 2022. It is proposed to proceed as requested....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: Okay. I thank the Deputy.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Deputy. No. 1211C is correspondence from me requesting the committee to write to the Department of Health in relation to the now abandoned secondment or redeployment, whichever it is, of the Chief Medical Officer to Trinity College Dublin. In the letter I set out that the committee would write to the Department of Health to request further information on the proposed...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: Procurement generally will need to be discussed with it at the meeting. It is on the work programme and responsibility for direct provision now resides with that Department. I also propose that we schedule an engagement with the National Pediatric Hospital Development Board in June, with representatives from the Department of Health. The board was last before the committee in July last...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: The committee requested this information when the Secretary General was in.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: We had a discussion around that with the Secretary General and we are not clear. If it is agreed by the committee, we will request that. We have to go into private session for a few minutes before adjourning until next Thursday, 5 May, when we will examine the Department of Finance's 2020 appropriation accounts and two chapters of the Comptroller and Auditor General's Report on the...

Home Heating Fuels: Motion [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the opportunity to speak to the motion. The Government's proposed ban is the wrong measure at the worst time. We must introduce climate action measures that are workable, affordable and bring communities with us rather than alienating and punishing people. This is not a just transition. This measure will affect the entire country but it will hit Laois-Offaly hardest. More than...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Generation (26 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: 290. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress that has been made to date in bringing forward legislation to facilitate micro-generation of electricity by householders and the export of any excess to the grid for payment. [20334/22]