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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: If we are corresponding with the IHRB, we will have to point out the previous commitments, or the previous statements at least, regarding the intended progress.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: Yes. We can request that. There are 25 tracks. Two were not provided. It defies me as to why it is taking so long. We will seek an explanation for the delays. We will outline our concerns about the ongoing delays and ask for a timeline for putting cameras in place and the progress in that regard. No. 1008B is from Mr. Maurice Buckley, chairman, Office of Public Works, dated 12...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: The term, "good progress has been achieved", give us hope and that we should be optimistic about it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: Yes, it has gone on for a long time. There is a bit of good news there, hopefully. We will move onto category C, correspondence from and related to private individuals and any other correspondence. No. 1001C is from our own Deputy Paul McAuliffe, dated 3 January 2022, and requests that the committee makes inquiries with the HSE regarding media reports that it bought a building adjoining...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: It would be important for the Comptroller and Auditor General to do that piece of work and then revert to us.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. McCarthy. That concludes the correspondence-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: Go ahead.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: Does the Deputy wish to go back to the piece of correspondence he sent in?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: Okay. Rezoning may not be the problem but the cost might be. I thank the Deputy. We will seek that information. We will move onto the work programme. Over the next two weeks, we are scheduled to engage with the National Transport Authority, NTA, and the following week then with Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, to examine their respective financial statements for 2020. The NTA...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: They have accepted them.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: If there are no other matters, we will go into private session before adjourning until 27 January.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: Go ahead.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: This is obviously an area of concern. We can request that information.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: We can request that. Is the Deputy asking that we write to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: We will seek that.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: 1370. To ask the Minister for Health the number of occupational therapists employed in the adult community services in County Laois; the number of vacancies that exist; and his plans to recruit additional occupational therapists. [63037/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (19 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: 1770. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons approved for home support hours but who are awaiting a carer in counties Laois and Offaly, respectively; and the number waiting for more than three and more than six months. [1765/22]

Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: The cost of living has gone through the roof. As Deputy Munster said, we have among the highest prices in the world in a range of areas, including housing, energy and others. Workers and families across the whole country are suffering. The cost of living for many workers and families in Laois-Offaly has reached an unbearable level. Renters in rural areas have been hit hardest by the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Programmes (25 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: 234. To ask the Minister for Finance the total spend related to the Special Assignee Relief Programme in each of the years 2019, 2020 and 2021. [2942/22]