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- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021) Brian Stanley: That is the reason I am asking the question. I am confused about it too.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021) Brian Stanley: If one of the officials has some information on that, he might outline it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021) Brian Stanley: Could I ask Mr. Deegan-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021) Brian Stanley: There is confusion. The warmer homes scheme, which is free for people in receipt of fuel allowance, provides for a lagging jacket for a boiler, attic insulation and maybe some other minor works such as energy-efficient lightbulbs. The better energy warmer homes scheme is part grant-aided and the householder puts up the balance. The national retrofit scheme is the more substantial scheme. ...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021) Brian Stanley: Does the national retrofit scheme run all year?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021) Brian Stanley: There is confusion in respect of the schemes. I know they are new schemes but there is not enough information available. One has to try to get a bit of information on the Internet regarding the schemes, particularly the national retrofit scheme. I ask Mr. Deegan to send committee members a short synopsis of the three schemes, including the amount of money it is projected will be spent on...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021) Brian Stanley: If our guests can send us that information, it would be appreciated. I refer to the categories that apply. The warmer homes scheme and the better energy homes scheme are quite clear-cut. I would like more information on the national retrofit scheme. I thank Mr. Deegan and Mr. Griffin for their replies on that issue. I did not expect them to have the details of the scheme with them...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Oct 2021)
Brian Stanley: The business before us this afternoon is the minutes of previous meetings, accounts and financial statements, correspondence, the work programme, and any other business. First, we will take the minutes of our meeting of 7 October, which has been circulated to Members. Do Members wish to raise any matters in relation to the minutes?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Oct 2021)
Brian Stanley: Are the minutes agreed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Oct 2021)
Brian Stanley: Next is the accounts and financial statements. One financial statement was laid before the Dáil between 4 and 8 October 2021. It is the HSE's 2020 financial statement, accounting for €20.3 billion. It was previously laid on 1 July but had to be re-laid to correct certain errors. I ask the Comptroller and Auditor General to address the matter before opening the floor to Members.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Oct 2021)
Brian Stanley: I did not realise. My apologies.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Oct 2021)
Brian Stanley: The meeting should be fairly short this afternoon in any case. I am sorry I did not see Deputy Devlin wanted to speak. I call on Mr. McCarthy to proceed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Oct 2021)
Brian Stanley: Could we agree to note the accounts and financial statements? Agreed. They will be published as part of our minutes. No. 3 is correspondence. There are two items to be addressed this week. The first category of correspondence is from Accounting Officers and Ministers and follow-up to meetings of the Committee of Public Accounts. No. 817 B is from Dr. Alan Wall, chief executive officer...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Oct 2021)
Brian Stanley: We have the HEA response, which I read yesterday. It refers to the courses being "for the professional development of academics or technical professionals employed by the state, state related entities or regulatory bodies". That is the part that caught my eye. What we are talking about is the professional development of academics or technical professionals employed in a professional...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Oct 2021)
Brian Stanley: Yes. Presumably the courses in the sector are provided in the area of energy. The letter goes on to state: As per our correspondence of 17 June, and with reference to the correspondence from the Committee, the HEA wrote to the higher education institutions, seeking assurances that any partnerships, grants, funding or similar arrangements between publicly funded higher education...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Oct 2021)
Brian Stanley: For the committee's information, we have sought from the HEA a registry of courses that are provided and funded or part-funded by private entities. Perhaps we will wait to see what the response is and we can then take it from there. This is a matter that we need to examine more closely. As the Committee on Public Accounts, it is public funding that we must examine, but if a company is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Oct 2021)
Brian Stanley: We will pursue the matter further at that point. The next category of correspondence is C, correspondence from and related to private individuals. No. 813C is dated 30 September and is a request to the committee from mise as our Chair to consider making inquiries with the Office of the Revenue Commissioners regarding the recent tax settlement with a company called Perrigo, which concerned...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Oct 2021)
Brian Stanley: We will write to them. We will move on to our work programme. Next week, on 21 October, we are scheduled to engage with Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, on its 2020 financial statements. The Dáil is not scheduled to sit the following week, 25 to 29 October, which brings us to 4 November, when we are planning to engage with RTÉ regarding its receipt of Exchequer funding,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Oct 2021)
Brian Stanley: If members look down the list and decide there are specific issues they wish to address with these bodies, they should let the secretariat know. The clerk will then be able to include those issues in the invitations and the bodies will be able to prepare. We must be careful to ensure that the invitations reflect what we will discuss with bodies. This has implications for the committee, but...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Oct 2021)
Brian Stanley: We can of course. We will put the Department on the list. Under the heading of any other business, I wish to raise a matter. The Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications appeared before us at today's meeting. During that, there was a discussion with the programme manager of the national broadband plan. His broadband actually dropped; his connection collapsed in the...