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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: We will have the Department in regularly. The committee proposed that we write to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and request that it makes it a requirement to have a timely updating of the tracker in terms of both costs and timelines. We are asking the Department to address it there, if that is agreed, and if the committee wishes to include that item when we have the...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Deputy. We will ask the clerk to the committee to do that. The fact that an investigation or an independent review is going to be carried out is welcome. We will ask for a timeline in that regard. No. 482 is correspondence from Mr. Ray Mitchell, assistant national director of the HSE, dated 25 March 2021. It provides information requested by the committee in respect of the...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Deputy. Does Deputy Catherine Murphy wish to come in briefly on that issue?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: I ask the Comptroller and Auditor General to come in on that point.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: We will correspond with the HSE in this regard and look for the status of the 2019 review when it will be fully completed. I propose we write to the new Secretary General of the Department with regard to the delay in putting an integrated financial management system in place. I believe it is a major area of concern and a major spend if the systems are not in place. The Comptroller and...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: We will note and publish it and we will ask the chairperson to clarify whether she believes GSOC is adequately resourced. I suggest the secretariat, when corresponding with GSOC would ask whether the commission has the figure for the number of criminal investigations in 2020. The document gives the figure of 485 for criminal investigations for 2019. I was surprised by that in a service...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: We can do that.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: Deputy Verona Murphy is next.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: We have agreed to consider what we have before us. Each member has considered what is in front of us. If there are further areas to be flagged then please do so with the clerk in a timely manner. No. 534 B from Mr. Ray Mitchell, assistant national director at the HSE, dated 28 April 2021, provides information requested by the committee in relation to SouthDoc. We will note and publish this...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: The second last paragraph of the correspondence notes that the HSE had received correspondence dated 22 April that confirms that the centre in Listowel is open for appointments since 17 and 18 April, and that the Blackpool centre will be available for appointments. It is very limited opening but we should seek clarification on that.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: What has been reopened is on a very limited basis. The service has been closed for a substantial period in Listowel and in Cork. We will follow through on that. No. 535 B from Ms Vivienne Flood, head of public affairs at RTÉ, dated 28 April 2021, provides information to the committee following the meeting on 27 April 2021. For members’ information, this is separate to the...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: Deputy Murphy is having some technical problems so, in the meantime, I call Deputy Munster.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: To be helpful to the Deputy and to clarify, RTÉ said it had received a bill and had made a settlement. The response we have today is simply a clarification on two matters that were discussed in replies given by RTÉ representatives, a clarification I have just read out for members. The list of questions on the issues raised at the meeting has been sent to RTÉ by the...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: I was hoping we would have had the figure on that day for the settlement with Revenue. We await that figure.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: Deputy Murphy had flagged this.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: Members should be aware that on 5 May a response was requested within ten working days. I suggest that when writing back to RTÉ we ask if, along with the settlement made to Revenue on foot of that, a settlement was made with workers in terms of PRSI entitlements and other benefits forgone by virtue of the fact they were not employed properly as employees and were wrongly employed as...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: The Deputy raised that with RTÉ at the meeting. We will request the information.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: We will request that along with the other information. No. 537B is from Mr. Maurice Buckley, chairman, OPW, dated 29 April 2021, providing information requested by the committee in relation to a new facility being constructed at Military Road, Kilmainham, Dublin 8 and plans for property that An Garda Síochána has vacated or is due to vacate. On Military Road, the OPW states...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: We will publish this and incorporate relevant material into the committee's draft report on its engagement with the OPW, which will be circulated next week and we will follow up on that. No. 540B is from Mr. Ray Mitchell, assistant national director, HSE, dated 29 April 2021, providing information requested by the committee in relation to the use of HSE services by Tusla. We discussed...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: We will now move on to the next category of correspondence from and related to private individuals and any other correspondence. No. 511C is from Senator Gerard Craughwell, dated 15 April 2021. He raised the matter with me some months ago and I suggested that he write to the committee. The letter is requesting that the committee review a contract for a search and rescue service that has...