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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2020)
Brian Stanley: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2020)
Brian Stanley: We can take two routes. We can write to the Committee on Procedure, which is the body that we are being told to go through, or we can directly invite bodies to attend, but by taking the second route and notwithstanding what has been stated by the Comptroller and Auditor General, others and me, we might be presented with a situation where an official appearing before us tells us that he or...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2020)
Brian Stanley: Are members happy to instruct the clerk to write to the board of the national children's hospital and the Secretary General of the Department and see how that goes? If we fail, we can take the other route. Is that agreed? Agreed. The two Accounting Officers in questions would be the Secretary General and the cathaoirleach of the hospital board. I thank members. That was a lengthy...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2020)
Brian Stanley: We will ask the clerk to do that. Next is No. 163 B, correspondence dated 15 October from Ms Angela Denning, CEO of the Courts Service, providing information requested by the committee regarding traffic cases that do not result in convictions. It is proposed to note and publish this item. Deputy Catherine Murphy raised this matter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2020)
Brian Stanley: In the letter, the reasons as to why some cases might be struck out are set out. The Deputy has given further information. The appendix to the letter sets out some figures, numbers and explanations. Perhaps the Deputy could consider this further between now and the next meeting. She may then wish to make a suggestion to the committee when we are dealing with correspondence at our next...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2020)
Brian Stanley: It is not comprehensive enough.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2020)
Brian Stanley: I thank the Deputy for the information.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2020)
Brian Stanley: Perhaps Deputy Catherine Murphy can reflect on the response she has received, on a way forward and on whether there is a role for this committee in that regard. Next is No. 164 B from Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú, Secretary General of the Department of Education, dated 15 October 2020. This provides information requested by the committee in respect of media monitoring. It is proposed...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2020)
Brian Stanley: We may be able to seek such information from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2020)
Brian Stanley: We will ask the clerk to seek that. We will now move to item No. 165 B, correspondence from Ms Oonagh McPhillips, Secretary General of the Department of Justice dated 15 October 2020. This provides information requested by the committee in respect of the 49% of road traffic cases which do not result in convictions. It is proposed that this be noted and published. Did Deputy Catherine...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2020)
Brian Stanley: The Deputy is okay with that. The next item is No. 166 B, correspondence from Mr. Robert Watt, who was recently before the committee, Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform dated 16 October 2020. It provides information requested by the committee in respect of on appointments to the Civil Service of persons with a knowledge of Irish as well as information on...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2020)
Brian Stanley: Is that agreed? Agreed. We will send it on to that committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2020)
Brian Stanley: Does the Deputy wish to speak on this matter?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2020)
Brian Stanley: Is it agreed that this section of the correspondence be forwarded to the committee with responsibility for disabilities? Is that okay? That is agreed. The next item flagged by members is No. 167 B, correspondence from Mr. Roland Gowran, commission secretariat manager at the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, dated 16 October 2020. This provides the further update requested...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2020)
Brian Stanley: The Deputy is happy enough. She has been busy. The next correspondence item is No. 175 B from Mr. Ray Mitchell, assistant national director of the HSE, dated 23 October 2020, providing further information requested by the committee in relation to non-compliant procurement. It is proposed to note and publish it. Is that agreed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2020)
Brian Stanley: Does Deputy Catherine Murphy wish to speak on it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2020)
Brian Stanley: The next item is No. 176 B-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2020)
Brian Stanley: The Deputy is going back to correspondence item No. 166.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2020)
Brian Stanley: We will have the agency in sometime in the next five or six weeks, if the Deputy wants to use that opportunity.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2020)
Brian Stanley: Does Deputy Carthy wish to come in?