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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: Just under €1 million. That is as it should be. There is passion around this and people are very concerned about it. We need to reset the dial because when I started driving, just over 600 a year were being killed on the roads and there was probably one tenth of the number of cars on the road, driving at half the speed. There was a particular reason for that at the time but we...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: The public business before us is as follows: minutes of meeting of 20 June 2024; accounts and financial statements; correspondence; work programme; and any other business. The minutes of our meeting of 20 June 2024 have been circulated. Do any members wish to raise any issues or matters regarding the minutes? No. Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. As usual, the minutes will be published...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: Does anybody have any questions about those? No. Can we agree to note the listing of accounts and financial statements? Agreed. As usual, they will be published as part of the minutes. I move to correspondence. As previously agreed, items that were not flagged for discussion for this meeting will be dealt with in accordance with the proposed actions that have been circulated, and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: Okay. We will ask HRI to respond to that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: Last week, we discussed potential engagements for the autumn, and a tentative schedule of meetings has been added to the work programme. It is proposed to prioritise meetings with Uisce Éireann, the HSE, the Charities Regulator, the Land Development Agency and University of Limerick. If members are happy to proceed on that basis, the secretariat will make the necessary arrangements....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: Is part of that being built on the Iveagh Gardens?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: There are issues around that as well.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: A picture as well, I think, would be useful. I know some bits of information came out at that meeting, but the way the information comes can be a bit back-and-forth and a bit chaotic at times. What would be useful is if we could put together the genesis of the project, just a sentence on where this came from, the scale of it, where it is now in terms of the size increase, the projected cost...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: It was changed.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: We will ask for that. The Comptroller and Auditor General wishes to come in.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: We will look for that document. Can we ask as well that they give a brief synopsis of the genesis of the project, the location, the projected cost at that point, where we are now as to where key changes were made to both the size and the location, just a short explanation on that, and where we are now in terms of projected costs? Where there were key changes made to both the size and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: There is a Charities Regulator, and there have been requests here from committee members, including Deputy Murphy-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: What is the Deputy asking? Has there been a change of personnel at the top?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: Regardless of who it is.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: The regulator has a massive remit, including approved housing bodies.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: That concludes our public session. We will move into private session.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Ceremonies (27 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: 202. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if attendees at naturalisation ceremonies to become Irish citizens can be provided with immediate proof that they are now Irish citizens in order for them to update their new status with their employers, and so on (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27685/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: It cannot be 11 years.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: Seven years after the towns of Mountmellick and Portarlington flooded, work on the relevant flood relief schemes has not started. The schemes for both towns are stuck at stage 1, preliminary design. More than 70 houses were damaged in the Mountmellick area when the flooding occurred. The Committee of Public Accounts had the OPW before it in the past two weeks. It confirmed that the...

Primary School Funding: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: I welcome this opportunity to address this with the Minister because I have been contacted by a number of schools across Laois-Offaly in recent weeks regarding the funding crisis and they have outlined to me the dire financial situation they are in. I have also met the Irish National Teachers Organisation and the Irish Primary Principals Network to listen to them and their concerns about the...