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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: That would be helpful. The point made is well made. While there is a detailed list of what compensation was paid for, it is always interesting to see the legal breakdown and the associated legal costs quantified. I propose the clerk seeks information from Mr. McCarthy on the wording of the request to the Department on the ratio of legal fees. The next item is correspondence No. 591B...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: There should not be any problem with that. Deputies Verona Murphy, MacSharry, Carroll MacNeill and I are the four representatives. I am confident that we will keep our eye on that ball. I am happy to report to members that from my conversations with some members of the finance committee, including the Cathaoirleach, they are anxious to examine this matter fully and thoroughly, and to get...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: The Deputy is happy enough. Correspondence No. 594B, from the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach, dated 19 May, encloses correspondence from the Minister of Public Expenditure and Reform detailing the information before it. As discussed, the Minister is scheduled to appear before the committee on 16 June. We note and publish that item. I wanted to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: We will ask for that to be included. I thank the Deputy for that. No. 553B, dated 4 May 2021, is from the European Anti-Fraud Office, OLAF, and concerns its investigation into the so-called "Cabra accounts". OLAF states it is not in a position to provide any additional information concerning the results of its investigation so as not to prejudice any potential follow-up at national...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: We will do that. I thank Deputy Carthy. The next correspondence is No. 565B. I propose that we take No. 592B along with this because they both relate to the same matter. No. 565B, dated 7 May 2021, is from Mr. Denis Egan, chief executive of the Irish Horse Racing Regulatory Board, IHRB, and provides information requested by the committee on CCTV. At our meeting last week, we agreed to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: We received a reply to question 17 that was put to the organisation. The reply says that at the meeting of 1 February the board of Horse Racing Ireland approved funding for the installation of CCTV cameras at all 26 racecourses. HRI confirmed that the tender documents were published on etenders.gov.ie on the week beginning 3 May 2021 with a response deadline of 9 June 2021. The IHRB is the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: I will bring in Mr. McCarthy at this point.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: I hope we will have them before the board is due to come before the committee. Obviously, it depends on the report the board is supposed to be working on with the Department of Health. We will have the board in for a session to try to get to the bottom of some of this.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: The letter reads: I am happy to report to the Committee that the NPHDB has reached agreement with the main contractor that a period of moratorium on claims will apply. This will be in place until June 2021. We will take that to mean 1 June. The letter continues, "The moratorium applies to conciliations and adjudications and High Court proceedings." I thank Deputy Hourigan for...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: The Deputy is happy enough if it goes there. No. 586C is correspondence from Mr. Seamus Dooley, secretary of the National Union of Journalists. We have dealt with this. Would anyone like to add anything further? The final item is No. 602C, correspondence from Deputy MacSharry, dated 19 May 2021. The Deputy requests that the committee consider including Cork Institute of Technology,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: Does the Deputy know the timeline for the changeover? Has the amalgamation gone through?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Deputy for that information.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. McCarthy for that. Is it agreed that we will add CIT to the work programme for further on in the year, perhaps autumn? Agreed. That concludes our consideration of correspondence. The fourth item on our agenda is the work programme. As agreed last week, we will engage with the Department of Transport this coming Thursday on its 2019 appropriation accounts. Items flagged for...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: The Deputy should feel free to comment on what is already there or to make a proposal.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: We can do that and see what the response is.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: The time limit of two hours is very restrictive and I have tried to stretch that five minutes out, particularly where a member is in the middle of trying to get an answer or an Accounting Officer is in the process of answering a question. I have tried to stretch it to six or seven minutes and to get a second round of questions in. We have managed that, I think, at every meeting since last...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (27 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: 52. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of asylum seekers who have been granted permission to remain in Ireland but are still living in direct provision centres; and the reason they remain in direct provision. [28442/21]

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (27 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: No apologies have been received. I understand that Deputy Devlin may be late joining us due to prior commitments. I will begin by welcoming all to this online meeting. Due to the current situation regarding Covid-19, the clerk, support staff and I are in the committee room. We are joined in person by Deputy Sherlock as he cannot attend remotely due to technical issues. You are all very...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (27 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: Mr. Spratt, you will appreciate that we are working with limited time. While you have your opening statement prepared, in fairness to you, I would ask that you keep within the five-minute limit, please.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (27 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: The lead committee member today is Deputy Dillon, who has just joined us. Deputy Dillon has 15 minutes. The second speaker is Deputy Sherlock, who has ten minutes. All other speakers have five minutes. As time is limited, I will keep members to that time and will try to allow for a second round of questions.