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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Dec 2021)

Brian Stanley: We will do that. It is an important issue. No. 943B is related to what Deputy Carthy has just mentioned. It is from Mr. Mark Griffin, Secretary General of the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications, and dated 1 December 2021. It provides information requested by the committee regarding non-compliant procurement. It concerns two contracts, totalling under €1...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Dec 2021)

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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Dec 2021)

Brian Stanley: The correspondent makes a number of assertions in the document and provides many links. I have read a few times the summary of what he sent us. I propose that, in the first instance, we seek the correspondent’s permission to forward the correspondence to the Department of Health. It is open to us to request, following that Department’s response, further information or...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Dec 2021)

Brian Stanley: On the second part, I mentioned the links that the correspondent provided. The links contain information to back up his case. We are not in a position to adjudicate on the strength of the information. The Deputy is correct that it is a very serious matter. That is the reason I flagged it for discussion. On the point raised by Deputy Verona Murphy on the well-being of patients if...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Dec 2021)

Brian Stanley: We will forward it to the Department once we get the permission of the correspondent. We can ask in that letter that if the correspondent has further evidence of this happening, it be forwarded to the committee or the Department of Health. The last correspondence in this group is No. R0929. It is from the clerk to the Joint Committee on Petitions requesting observations on proposals to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (14 Dec 2021)

Brian Stanley: 45. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the cost within the National Broadband Plan for the use of the infrastructure of Eir over the duration of the contract. [61451/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (14 Dec 2021)

Brian Stanley: 66. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of connections that the National Broadband Plan has made in total; and the total projected connections by December 2022. [61450/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Tax and Social Welfare Codes (14 Dec 2021)

Brian Stanley: 442. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department is of the view that the 1997 Revenue Commissioners courier sector tax agreement which was discontinued in 2019 was in keeping with her Department’s factors for determining the employment status of courier workers (details supplied). [61639/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Tax and Social Welfare Codes (14 Dec 2021)

Brian Stanley: 443. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of test cases that were undertaken prior to her Department’s establishment of criteria in 1995 to determine the formal insurability and employment status of courier workers. [61640/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Tax and Social Welfare Codes (14 Dec 2021)

Brian Stanley: 446. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason her Department did not amend the 1995 determining factors for employment status of courier drivers following the outcome of a Supreme Court case (details supplied). [61643/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Tax and Social Welfare Codes (14 Dec 2021)

Brian Stanley: 444. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the specific legal basis for an appeals officer in 1995 to establish a set of criteria in relation to determining the employment status of a group and class of workers specifically in relation to establishing a set of criteria to determine the employment status of courier workers. [61641/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Tax and Social Welfare Codes (14 Dec 2021)

Brian Stanley: 445. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reasoning of her Department for each of the three factors established by her Department in 1995 with regard to the determination of employment status of courier drivers (details supplied). [61642/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Tax and Social Welfare Codes (14 Dec 2021)

Brian Stanley: 447. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a statement (details supplied) by the Secretary General of the Department of Social, Community and Family Affairs in a letter to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Public Accounts in September 2000 represents an accurate account of her Department’s actions. [61644/21]

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2021)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the amendment. It is important that groups such as the people mentioned by the Deputy are included. The fuel allowance scheme is very important for families on low incomes but it is narrow enough in terms of the definitions and who gets it. In our alternative budget, Sinn Féin proposed extending by two weeks the period in which the fuel allowance is paid, but also broadening...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (16 Dec 2021)

Brian Stanley: 112. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has the authority to initiate or commission an investigation or a review into the Revenue Commissioners; and if so, the number of investigations or reviews his Department initiated in the past five years. [61505/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (16 Dec 2021)

Brian Stanley: 142. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department will consider commissioning an investigation to review the tax agreement signed between the Revenue Commissioners and the courier sector in October 1997 (details supplied) to assess the grounds upon which the deal was signed, the financial implications to the State and to the workers involved and the knock-on effect to other sectors....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Psychological Assessments (16 Dec 2021)

Brian Stanley: 576. To ask the Minister for Health if psychological assessments of needs are being carried out in the Spraoi Centre, Portlaoise, County Laois; the number of same carried out to date in 2021; the longest waiting time; and the number of persons on the waiting lists. [62779/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Psychological Assessments (16 Dec 2021)

Brian Stanley: 584. To ask the Minister for Health the current staffing levels in the Spraoi Centre, Portlaoise including all posts that are in place; and the number in each one. [62830/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Carcase Disposal (16 Dec 2021)

Brian Stanley: 613. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the collection of dead dogs from private property, public spaces or roadways; and if there is role for the knackeries to collect same. [62430/21]

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021)

Brian Stanley: No apologies have been received. I would like to begin by welcoming our members and witnesses to the meeting. Due to the current situation regarding Covid-19, only the clerks, support staff and I are in the committee room. Members of the committee are attending remotely from within the precincts of Leinster House. This is due to the constitutional requirement that in order to participate...