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Public Accounts Committee: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland: Financial Statements 2019 (9 Mar 2021)

Brian Stanley: The Deputy has one minute left.

Public Accounts Committee: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland: Financial Statements 2019 (9 Mar 2021)

Brian Stanley: The Deputy's time is up.

Public Accounts Committee: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland: Financial Statements 2019 (9 Mar 2021)

Brian Stanley: Deputy McAuliffe has two minutes.

Public Accounts Committee: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland: Financial Statements 2019 (9 Mar 2021)

Brian Stanley: We will wait for that response. Deputy Munster has two minutes.

Public Accounts Committee: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland: Financial Statements 2019 (9 Mar 2021)

Brian Stanley: I understand Deputy MacSharry wishes to speak again. It should be brief because we are up against the clock.

Public Accounts Committee: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland: Financial Statements 2019 (9 Mar 2021)

Brian Stanley: Time is up.

Public Accounts Committee: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland: Financial Statements 2019 (9 Mar 2021)

Brian Stanley: Since some members are not present, I ask that the Deputy put the proposal to the committee formally at our next meeting. I do not have any problem with it being proposed, but we should be fair to the other members and put it formally so that all members can consider it. We will take it at the next meeting, if that is okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland: Financial Statements 2019 (9 Mar 2021)

Brian Stanley: I will ask him to do that so that all members will have an opportunity. There is just one minute left, but I have a question for Mr. Black. When the SBCI was established, it was needed and there was a role for it because SMEs could not access finance in the years after the crash. I am looking for a brief answer, although I know it will be unfair to make him reply so quickly. Could there...

Public Accounts Committee: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland: Financial Statements 2019 (9 Mar 2021)

Brian Stanley: I know it is a decision for the Minister, but speaking as CEO, could Mr. Black see the SBCI fitting into the role?

Public Accounts Committee: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland: Financial Statements 2019 (9 Mar 2021)

Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. Black for his reply. I thank the three witnesses for participating and for the information they provided. I also thank the Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff for participating and assisting the committee. Is it agreed to ask the clerk to seek any follow-up information and to carry out any agreed action arising from the meeting? Agreed. Is it also agreed that we...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Mar 2021)

Brian Stanley: I want to refer to the national broadband scheme. A problem arises whereby people are in neither the intervention area nor the blue area. The blue areas are the areas that are supposed to be serviced already by existing companies and networks, such as the metropolitan area networks. The problem is that the maps show households and businesses that are supposed to be in the covered areas,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (10 Mar 2021)

Brian Stanley: 60. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the policy in relation to the replacement of solid fuels as peat is being phased out. [13078/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (10 Mar 2021)

Brian Stanley: 621. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether the living alone allowance should be accessed as income when calculating the income threshold for pensioners. [13484/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (10 Mar 2021)

Brian Stanley: 622. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to gradually increase the income threshold for pensioners for entitlements in forthcoming budgets. [13485/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (10 Mar 2021)

Brian Stanley: 815. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the way the Covid vaccines are distributed to general practitioners such as by county or surgery; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a number of surgeries have not yet received a delivery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12818/21]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)

Brian Stanley: Apologies have been received from Deputy Sherlock. I welcome everybody to the meeting, which is taking place in the Dáil Chamber to enable members to attend in person while adhering to the public health guidelines. Some Deputies are appearing remotely from their offices within the precincts of Leinster House. This is due to the constitutional requirement that in order to participate...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)

Brian Stanley: We note the correspondence we have received and it will be published on the committee website, but members still have a number of questions. My own take is it that the two figures are fairly substantial. I will not revisit the points that have been made. The issues have been well covered by the four Deputies, but we do need to seek some further information on the matter. If members are...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)

Brian Stanley: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)

Brian Stanley: We will ask the clerk to seek further information and we will publish correspondence 381B. No. 393B is correspondence from Ms Anne Graham, chief executive, National Transport Authority, dated 23 February 2021 providing an update requested by the committee regarding the rail fleet procurement. At our meeting on 4 March we decided to note and publish this item. It was also decided to hold it...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)

Brian Stanley: I suggest to the Deputy that we would deal with the correspondence regarding BusConnects separately. It might be more helpful if we dealt with it as a separate piece of correspondence. I ask the Deputy to confine her remarks to correspondence 393B.