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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)
Brian Stanley: Okay. Is it agreed we note the accounts and statements? Agreed. As usual, the listing of accounts and financial statements will be published as part of our minutes. Representatives of the Department of Health recently appeared before the committee. There have been reports in the media that I want to address as Chairman of the committee. We are told there are recordings of a senior...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)
Brian Stanley: I am not very touchy about anything, and it does not matter who is sitting on these benches now or in the future, but members of the Committee of Public Accounts should not be referred to in that manner. The Department needs to clarify whether it happened, and if it did, the Secretary General should outline his view on that. We will request an apology to the committee if it did happen. ...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)
Brian Stanley: In fairness, the previous paragraph tells us that the Department manages all elements of the contract governance and that it currently has a core team of 25 which is augmented by 20 specialists for external services. That gives us an indication that around 20 would be needed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)
Brian Stanley: Does Deputy Murphy want to know the disciplines, whether we are talking about technical posts for people with engineering backgrounds and so on?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)
Brian Stanley: If that is agreed, we will look for that information from the Secretary General, Mr. Mark Griffin. The next item is No. 1266B from Mr. Denis Duggan, CEO of Horse Sport Ireland, dated 25 May 2022, providing information requested by the committee regarding the proposed relocation of a Horse Sport Ireland facility to Greenogue in Dublin. In terms of the application of procurement rules, a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)
Brian Stanley: Where did it move from?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)
Brian Stanley: How much of the 30 acres is sterilised for a road corridor?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)
Brian Stanley: I have a suggestion to make. If we write to Mr. Brendan Gleeson, the Secretary General of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, it is likely that he will say it is not a matter for the Department because Horse Sport Ireland is an independent body. However, Deputy Murphy is correct in saying that the bulk of the organisation's funding comes from the Department. We should write...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)
Brian Stanley: Yes. We must also ask a question as to whether there is a condition in the lease relating to competitive activities. Deputy Murphy mentioned that no competitive activity can take place on the site. It seems odd that a body such as Horse Sport Ireland would acquire a site that would rule that out. Maybe that is not the purpose of this. My understanding is that there are number of these...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)
Brian Stanley: Has it some role in breeding?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)
Brian Stanley: I will try to draw this together. It is proposed that we write to Mr. Duggan and Cc Brendan Gleeson, highlighting the four or five concerns we have just outlined and asking for a copy of the business case for this piece to be supplied to the committee. Is that agreeable? Okay. That may illuminate the matter for us. The next item is No. 1269B, from Robert Watt, Secretary General,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)
Brian Stanley: Yes, in a few weeks.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)
Brian Stanley: I myself wrote a question about this. Has there been a claim?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)
Brian Stanley: There was also the period when there was a dispute over the restart time in the period after the first Covid lockdown, if Members recall.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)
Brian Stanley: They were later coming back on that site than they were on other building sites.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)
Brian Stanley: The Government announced that construction was back, NPHET gae the okay for it, but construction on the hospital did not restart. As I recall, it was nearly two months before it did.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)
Brian Stanley: I propose that we ask the question Deputy Murphy and I want answered be answered, that is, whether a claim has been made on that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)
Brian Stanley: We can do that. Deputy Burke is talking about the passage in the correspondence where it states that-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)
Brian Stanley: It is stated in the correspondence that there were non-related claims and that contractors' design packages are the responsibility of the contractors. We can ask for details or some extra information as to how much has been settled.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)
Brian Stanley: We will ask for the status of that.