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- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: I ask that the committee is furnished with an itemised breakdown of where those properties are in each county across the State, and how long those properties have been vacant.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: I know a fairly lengthy process is involved. Looking at my own constituency, there are a number of properties there. I am very conscious that there are over 12,600 homeless people in the State and that up to 400 State-owned properties that are lying vacant. Is there a value on the portfolio of vacant properties?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: Okay, so there is no value on the assets that are vacant.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: Can that be furnished to the committee?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: Can we also get details on the square footage or area in square metres of the assets that are vacant? Can that information be provided to the committee?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: The HSE is trying its best. Mr. Mulvany said it is linked in with the OPW in a process. Surely that information is centrally held. I referenced the figure of 12,691 people who are homeless in the State. There are people who have come to this country for international protection who are living in tents, and there are 400 properties that are held by the HSE in a derelict or vacant state.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: Just one last question.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: I have one last question on the information that the HSE is going to furnish to the committee. I also ask that details are provided of the cost in terms of how much it is for the upkeep of those vacant properties, including security provided, to keep them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
John Brady: I will start by saying that the way things are done in RTÉ around the culture is why we are here today. To my mind, lessons have not been learned if that is still the line that is being peddled here today around this so-called independent advice, that is, that is the way it has always been done and that is the culture within RTÉ. Lessons clearly have not been learned. The...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
John Brady: Has the Minister seen it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
John Brady: Has the Minister requested it or seen it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
John Brady: I find that fascinating. RTÉ has essentially come in here and over the last number of weeks has put the begging bowl out asking for a bailout from the taxpayer and from the Government, without this key piece of information. To my mind, without that key piece of information not a penny should be given over to RTÉ because that is the keystone in the evidence that we as the Committee...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
John Brady: Mr. Bakhurst has said that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
John Brady: Okay. If that is the case, that information should be furnished from that Teams meeting. I find it extraordinary that neither the Department nor the Minister have asked for or received that information either.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
John Brady: This is about governance, however. It is about oversight. It is about restoring trust within RTÉ, showing that lessons have been learned and we have moved on. Without that openness and transparency coming from RTÉ as regards that critical piece of information, I do not think we are anywhere close to starting that process.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
John Brady: I will move on.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
John Brady: I am sorry Mr. Bakhurst-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
John Brady: Key information.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
John Brady: In fairness, that is Mr. Bakhurst's interpretation of it that it is not key. Unfortunately, we do not have the privilege to make that determination because it has been withheld from us. That is the problem.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
John Brady: I will move on to Richard Collins. I heard what Mr. Bakhurst said earlier about him resigning from the organisation. Was that an amicable separation?