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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: Are any other Deputies indicating? Everyone else is happy enough with it. I will make a couple of points regarding the report from the Secretary General, Mr. Mark Griffin. I must say it is very comprehensive. A study is being carried out regarding the potential use of the Lough Ree and Shannonbridge power plants. The just transition commissioner, Mr. Kieran Mulvey, requested a study be...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: We can seek that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: Mr. Griffin sets out in his correspondence that the Department is engaging with the County and City Management Association. It states, "The Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications is working on the draft heads of a Circular Economy Bill, with a view to underpinning measures promoting the development of a circular economy." It goes on to say, "This could help to ensure that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: I am sure Deputy Burke has it in his constituency in Cork-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: -----the same as the rest of us have it. My concern, which I am sure Deputy Burke also has, is that this legislation may take some time. Meanwhile, people are dumping illegally on a commercial scale in many parts of the country and the local authorities basically have their hands tied behind their backs trying to deal with it. We will send a letter to the Secretary General asking for it be...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: Everyone else is happy. We will seek the information that has been requested here regarding the various items, those being the national broadband plan, the letters to RTÉ and the NUJ, as suggested by Deputy Munster, and the value for money issue raised by Deputy Devlin regarding the Eircode system. Are Deputies okay with that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: There was a very vague answer on that. If we look for what uptake and use there has been in that regard, would the Deputy be happy with that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: No. 407B, dated 2 March, is from Mr. Niall Cody, chairman of the Revenue Commissioners, providing information requested by the committee regarding the Revenue's use of data access requests under the Communications (Retention of Data) Act 2011. It states that, on the advice of the Attorney General, Revenue has not made any disclosure requests to communications service providers since 2018,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: We will have that correspondence forwarded to the Joint Committee on Justice. The next correspondence is No. 410B, dated 2 March, from Ms Mary Harney, chancellor, University of Limerick, UL, providing information requested by the committee concerning a protected disclosure, which members will recall was brought to the attention of the committee by a correspondent who alleged that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: We are due to have representatives from UL in and that is in our work programme. There may be an opportunity then to address some of these points. I call Deputy MacSharry.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: Go ahead, briefly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: I ask the Comptroller and Auditor General to address that issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: Where there is evidence of a body bearing down or treating a whistleblower unfairly, maybe the justice committee could examine that too. That would be quite a serious matter if that happened. We have University of Limerick coming in later in for a hearing. Maybe we could take up some of those points with it. Meanwhile, we will note and publish the document here. Is that agreed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: We will write to all 14 Departments requesting the information regarding the number of protected disclosures. Is that agreed? Agreed. The next item of correspondence, No. 418B, from Gillian Gilleran on behalf of the Secretary General of the Department of Justice, dated 3 March 2021, providing information requested by the committee arising from the meetings with the Department of Justice...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: Okay. Does any other member wish to come in on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: Mr. Noel McGree is anxious to come before the committee and he has discussed that with me a number of times. He seems to have had encountered many difficulties. It would be worthwhile exploring that. We can check with him as to whether he is still willing to appear before the committee. We can put it on the work programme if the committee wishes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: We will look for that. The next item of correspondence, No. 421B, from Ms Rachel Downes, CEO, Caranua, dated 4 March 2021, responding to our request for information on behalf of two survivors on their cases. In her correspondence, Ms Downes accepts that the committee has obtained the consent of the survivors for this purpose. She also notes that the committee agreed that correspondence...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: The information the secretariat has is that it is winding up tomorrow, 24 March.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: Is it the case that the new board will provide some level of oversight but the Department will provide the operational part of it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)
Brian Stanley: The amount of money remaining is small.