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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: There are two questions there.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: Can we agree to note the accounts and statements? Agreed. As usual, the listing of accounts and financial statements will be published as part of our minutes. We will move on now to correspondence. As previously agreed, items that are not flagged for discussion for this meeting will continue to be dealt with in accordance with the proposed actions that have been circulated, and decisions...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: Mr. McCarthy can come in on that question on holiday pay.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: We will ask for information on the Clontibret project. On the Portlaoise-Cullahill M7-M8 scheme, we received detailed figures from the TII in regard to the costs to the agency to date and the projected costs by the end of the contract. TII has paid €83 million to the company to date, and €173 million has been collected in tolls. The figure we do not have is what the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: We will ask the clerk to follow up on that piece of information. It is proposed to note and publish that correspondence. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: We will look for that clarification. It has been agreed to note and publish that correspondence. I refer to No. 1119, from Mr. Robert Watt, Secretary General, Department of Health, dated 7 March 2022. It provides information requested by the committee on the national paediatric hospital, which arises from our consideration of previous correspondence from the Department on 20 January. It...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Deputy for that contribution. She is correct that the concerns we raised were specific. I refer to whether there is a shortfall in the numbers of staff on the site and if progress has slowed. The most recent information we had referred to a date of 2025 for delivery. Each month this project is prolonged impacts on the cost. Inflation in the costs of construction, especially...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: The Deputy can, but briefly.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: Regarding the Deputy's last point, that letter was issued and that question was put to the Department. There has been no response and no answer to the question, but we will request that information again. Is that okay?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: The committee is at a big disadvantage here because we have not seen the KPMG report, which we have requested sight of on several occasions. More than a year ago, we sought information on what timelines were indicated in that report and what had been agreed with the contractor. We do not have that information. All we have is the statement that the project will now be completed in 2025....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: We can. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: No. 1128 B is from Mr. Ray Mitchell, assistant national director of the HSE, dated 11 March 2022. It provides information requested by the committee regarding additional nursing home charges. It is proposed to note and publish this item. Is that agreed?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: If it is agreed to hold back this item, we can do so. Is that agreed? Agreed. No. 1132 B is from Ms Katherine Licken, Secretary General of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, dated 10 March 2022. It provides information requested by the committee regarding the national collection of arts and antiquities, its storage and plans for digitising records. It...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: Is there a piece somewhere with a connection to you?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: I found the Land Commission records to be very important because the folios attached for a small farm or cottage include turf banks for domestic turf cutting. The only way to trace them is through the old Land Commission records. It would be great if they were digitised. Are they digitised in the North?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: Some are held in Cavan and others in Portlaoise.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: They could have been divided up within the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: We will ask for this information. No. 1135 B from Ms Oonagh McPhillips, Secretary General of Department of Justice, dated 15 March 2022. It provides information requested by the committee regarding the workload of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, complaints referred by it to An Garda Síochána and vice versa, and an update regarding the meeting with regard to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: Representatives of GSOC will be before us in a few weeks' time. Maybe we will ask them to bring that information with them on the day.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: The number of complaints in 2021 was 2,189. Of those, 1,332 were determined as admissible and requiring investigation. That is a high number. Is the Deputy happy enough to wait until our meeting to get that information?