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

Brian Stanley: We will look for that clarification. It has been agreed to note and publish that correspondence. I refer to No. 1119, from Mr. Robert Watt, Secretary General, Department of Health, dated 7 March 2022. It provides information requested by the committee on the national paediatric hospital, which arises from our consideration of previous correspondence from the Department on 20 January. It...

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

Brian Stanley: I thank the Deputy for that contribution. She is correct that the concerns we raised were specific. I refer to whether there is a shortfall in the numbers of staff on the site and if progress has slowed. The most recent information we had referred to a date of 2025 for delivery. Each month this project is prolonged impacts on the cost. Inflation in the costs of construction, especially...

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

Brian Stanley: The Deputy can, but briefly.

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

Brian Stanley: Regarding the Deputy's last point, that letter was issued and that question was put to the Department. There has been no response and no answer to the question, but we will request that information again. Is that okay?

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

Brian Stanley: The committee is at a big disadvantage here because we have not seen the KPMG report, which we have requested sight of on several occasions. More than a year ago, we sought information on what timelines were indicated in that report and what had been agreed with the contractor. We do not have that information. All we have is the statement that the project will now be completed in 2025....

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

Brian Stanley: We can. Is that agreed? Agreed.

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

Brian Stanley: No. 1128 B is from Mr. Ray Mitchell, assistant national director of the HSE, dated 11 March 2022. It provides information requested by the committee regarding additional nursing home charges. It is proposed to note and publish this item. Is that agreed?

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

Brian Stanley: If it is agreed to hold back this item, we can do so. Is that agreed? Agreed. No. 1132 B is from Ms Katherine Licken, Secretary General of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, dated 10 March 2022. It provides information requested by the committee regarding the national collection of arts and antiquities, its storage and plans for digitising records. It...

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

Brian Stanley: Is there a piece somewhere with a connection to you?

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

Brian Stanley: I found the Land Commission records to be very important because the folios attached for a small farm or cottage include turf banks for domestic turf cutting. The only way to trace them is through the old Land Commission records. It would be great if they were digitised. Are they digitised in the North?

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

Brian Stanley: Some are held in Cavan and others in Portlaoise.

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

Brian Stanley: They could have been divided up within the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

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

Brian Stanley: We will ask for this information. No. 1135 B from Ms Oonagh McPhillips, Secretary General of Department of Justice, dated 15 March 2022. It provides information requested by the committee regarding the workload of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, complaints referred by it to An Garda Síochána and vice versa, and an update regarding the meeting with regard to...

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

Brian Stanley: Representatives of GSOC will be before us in a few weeks' time. Maybe we will ask them to bring that information with them on the day.

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

Brian Stanley: The number of complaints in 2021 was 2,189. Of those, 1,332 were determined as admissible and requiring investigation. That is a high number. Is the Deputy happy enough to wait until our meeting to get that information?

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

Brian Stanley: The secretary has just confirmed that we wrote a letter in relation to that database. We will ask that it be followed up to try to get an answer.

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

Brian Stanley: The next category is C, correspondence from and related to private individuals and any other correspondence. The first is from committee member, Deputy Dillon, and is dated 21 February. He requests the committee consider scheduling a meeting with Eir. I open the floor to anyone who wants to contribute. Deputy Dillon flagged it but I do not think he is online. He may indicate if he is....

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

Brian Stanley: There are obviously issues with Eir, for example, the size of the company, and the implications it has for the roll-out of the national broadband plan, NBP, not to mention ordinary telecommunications. However, as a private company, Eir is not accountable to the committee. I advise that the topic of Eir's current and future investment strategy on the telecommunications industry and market in...

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

Brian Stanley: Okay. It is proposed we take the second option of trying to deal with this matter by way of correspondence. That is agreed. No. 1129, dated 11 March 2022, is from an individual and is further correspondence to the committee regarding Screen Ireland. It is proposed to refer the correspondent to the committee's last letter to Screen Ireland, which was circulated to members for...

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

Brian Stanley: Okay. Deputy Munster is not with us. It is proposed we note that correspondence. No. 1134, dated 11 March 2022, is from an individual requesting the committee to make inquiries regarding the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman. It is proposed to advise the correspondent that while we can examine the audited accounts of the Office of the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman,...