Results 6,861-6,880 of 20,088 for speaker:Brian Stanley
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: The rail cars about which the Deputy is concerned are being delivered on a phased basis up to late 2022.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: I ask Deputies who have spoken previously and still have a hand raised to take the signal down unless they wish to come back in again. I note Deputy McAuliffe's hand signal is still up. Does he wish to come back in? We will publish this correspondence and seek information regarding the cost of the project. No. 394B is correspondence also from Ms Anne Graham, chief executive, National...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: Do any other members wish to come in on that item of correspondence? Okay. We will seek the further information to which Deputy Murphy referred. No. 395 is correspondence from Mr. John Dollard, chief superintendent, An Garda Síochána, dated 23 February 2021. It is in response to further information requested by the committee in respect of the investigation relating to the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: I thank Deputy Carthy. I wish to bring to the attention of members that I have just been notified of correspondence item No. 447, which arrived late. We will have it for our next meeting. I suggest that we wait and consider that item of correspondence and then decide what to do. Is Deputy Carthy happy enough with that approach? It may provide some insight for the committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: I do not have a copy of it either; I just have a one-line note on it. In the correspondence, OLAF advises that it has opened an investigation but is not in a position to provide further information "so as not to prejudice any potential follow-up at national level". That is what it states in the correspondence. As neither I nor members have had sight of that correspondence, I suggest that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: We will try to get that correspondence circulated quickly. The next three items of correspondence are from Horse Racing Ireland, HRI, and the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board, IHRB. As they are related, I will address each of them before opening the floor to members. The first of the three is correspondence item No. 396 B, from Mr. Brian Kavanagh, chief executive of Horse Racing...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: According to the information we have been given to date, only one of the 26 racecourses has CCTV installed. Another will have it installed. The €9.1 million was allocated in 2018. If a tender was sought for the roll-out of CCTV, which we know is needed, given that certain incidents have occurred in stable yards at racecourses, a company could have been employed for a portion of that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: Yes. It is on the list.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: I will ask the Comptroller and Auditor General to respond.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: We will seek those. There is a proposal that the committee writes to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine about the prize money. When doing so we can also raise the issue of salaries. Commercial sensitivity normally kicks in where a particular entity has competitors but I do not see any competitors.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: We will seek that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: It is also proposed that we write to the IHRB and Horse Racing Ireland seeking clarification on the other points. Are members happy with that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: The crossovers and the overlap.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: Can the Comptroller and Auditor General tell me how many members of the Turf Club are on the board?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: Given the fact that €9.1 million was allocated-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: I understand that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: Given that we are talking about €25,000 per racecourse, working from that figure, all the racecourses could be done for a very small portion of the €9.1 million. Three years have passed and it has not happened. We will seek clarification on that matter, the letter to the Department on the issue raised by Deputy Carthy, namely, the trickle-down effect of the prize money, and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: I believe that 157 contractors were highlighted in that Eversheds Sutherland report. RTÉ advised that 81 had been offered contracts of employment as opposed to contracts of service and 78 had formally accepted at that point. That is the only information we have to date. We can seek that information for the Deputy, however.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: I call Deputy Carthy.