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- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Brian Stanley: With working from home, there may be a possibility of extra space becoming available there. Maybe it is full out. I do not know but that may be an option if offices had to be provided.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Brian Stanley: There may be some vacant space there. By the look of it, LH 2000, this place here, is fairly full.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Brian Stanley: Once we have it for next March, it will be okay. That concludes the questions. I thank the witnesses from the Office of Public Works, the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform for the work involved in preparing for today's meeting. As always, I thank the Comptroller and Auditor General and his...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: The public business before us this afternoon is minutes of the meetings of 23 May and 30 May, accounts and statements, correspondence, consideration of draft work programme and any other business. I will deal with the minutes first. The minutes of our meetings of 23 May and 30 May 2024 have been circulated. Do any members wish to raise any matters regarding those? Are the minutes agreed?...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: Okay. Regarding No. 9 and the two frauds related to breaches of IT controls, one resulted in the loss of €29,000, while the other resulted in a payment from a partner university being misdirected. The briefing says that the bank details of a supplier account were amended without adherence to the existing internal controls. Who is the supplier being referred to here?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: Yes. It came from the supplier's email address but it refers to that address being hacked. I presume this means that someone go into the supplier's IT system and emails and sent it from that and gave instruction to misdirect it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: Okay, I just wanted to clarify that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: Regarding InterTrade Ireland, did Mr. McCarthy say it was late?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: It is supposed to be done within a six-month period. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: Okay. We can send a letter to InterTrade Ireland pointing this out and asking for the reason for the delay? Is that agreed? Agreed. As usual, the fiscal accounts and financial statements will be published as part of the committee's minutes as normal. We will now move on to correspondence. As previously agreed, the items that are not flagged for discussion at this meeting will be...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: When representatives of Tusla were before us, Ms Kate Duggan indicated that a number of people who were referred to Tusla were no longer children. A certain number of them were older than 18.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: There have been 102 in the first five months of the year. That seems to have accelerated rapidly in the first five months of the year. The numbers are far higher than in the previous three years.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: There was a separate cohort from Ukraine, some of whom were found to be beyond the age of 18.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: I ask the Deputy to frame her question. What is the question?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: When the representatives of Tusla were before the committee, they were clear that they were using bed and breakfast accommodation for many of these young people. That was what I picked up.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: There is a discrepancy in the figures of approximately 30. Is that right?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: Okay. We will seek further information as to what accommodation they are being kept in.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: The children we are talking about are obviously vulnerable and have been left in a situation where they might be exposed to further danger. That is of enormous concern. Many of those children are already vulnerable by virtue of how they have come here. We are talking about international protection applicants rather than temporary protection. From when the representatives of Tusla were...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: That item is agreed. We will note and publish that item of correspondence. Is that agreed? Agreed. No. R2628 is from Mr. Kevin McCarthy, Secretary General of the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, dated 30 May. It provides a response to the committee on a number of issues that were raised at the meeting of 18 April. It is proposed to note and publish...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: You may. Go ahead.