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- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Colm Burke: We get those figures all the time in the context of the health sector but we are not getting them from in respect of other Departments. As I stated, the rough estimate by the State Claims Agency of the overall figure is €4.2 billion, which is taxpayers' money. It is important that every Department keep us advised of the liabilities that are arising and when agreements are reached....
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Colm Burke: I ask Mr. Griffin to also come back to us on the transposing of EU regulations and so on, the timelines for those and the numbers involved.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Colm Burke: Has the Waterford and Wexford Education and Training Board, WWETB, put procedures in place to ensure that the procurement rules are being followed correctly?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Colm Burke: There was also an incident involving the Garda station in Glanmire where the sale dragged on for six years. Tthe OPW ended up having to pay the interest at way above the bank interest rate for the full six years when it finally found it had a binding contract to comply with.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Colm Burke: Basically, the OPW agreed to buy a property in Glanmire in Cork but there was an issue with the closing of the sale. The sale did not close and it dragged on for six years. Eventually the OPW agreed it should proceed with the purchase of the premises and ended up paying six years of interest. The question raised then was who made the decision not to proceed six years earlier. It was the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Colm Burke: It was raised with the OPW at a previous meeting going back about 18 months ago.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Colm Burke: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Colm Burke: We are talking about the audited accounts for 2,500 organisations. I presume there is a timeframe for accounts to be produced and that one cannot produce them on 31 December. It might be important that we seek clarification on the following. What is the time period, from the end of the financial year, for the accounts to be provided by an auditor? Let us say an auditor signs off accounts....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Colm Burke: I understand that hospitals are regarded as section 38 organisations or are they section 39 organisations?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Colm Burke: Are hospices section 39 organisations?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Colm Burke: Is it proposed to make hospices section 38 organisations? There are about eight hospices that are section 39 organisations and it is proposed to change them to section 38 organisations. Would the hospices be in a more secure position as section 38 organisations?.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Colm Burke: That is right.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Colm Burke: The proposal to make the eight hospices section 38 organisations is being pushed at the moment.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Colm Burke: There are eight hospices across the country that are section 39 organisations at the moment but I understand that there is a move to make them section 38 organisations.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Colm Burke: The reason for the change is that hospices play a huge part in the healthcare sector and the move will give them and everyone involved greater security.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Colm Burke: Yes, and staff as well.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Colm Burke: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Colm Burke: Yes. I thank the Chair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Construction of the National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
Colm Burke: What of the actual equipment for the theatres? This involves a large project. I am involved in one hospital which wants a piece of equipment and cannot get it until mid-December. Given the number of theatres in the new children's hospital, will the hospital have every piece of equipment it requires for the theatres in 12 months' time? Where are we with that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Construction of the National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
Colm Burke: All right.