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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: Thank you. The final item of correspondence is 1338C, which is dated 23 June 2022. It concerns the wards of court fund. It requests that the committee examine the issue. The correspondence states that there have been substantial losses to the fund and that there is a lack of proper State oversight of the fund, which is in excess of €2 billion. While the Committee of Public...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: Okay. I call Deputy Colm Burke.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: I thank the Deputy for that. Does the Comptroller and Auditor General wish to comment?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: Which these are not under.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: We will proceed with the suggestion. Is that agreed? Agreed. The next item is the work programme, copies of which have been circulated to Members. I am sure there will not be a dull moment. Next week, on 14 July, we will meet An Bord Pleanála, and that will be our last meeting of this sitting term. Following agreement at last week's meeting, the Secretary General of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: Yes, there will be correspondence and other business.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: We then have scheduled our first public engagement, which is with Horse Racing Ireland, and we will ask a representative from the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board to attend as well. I do not know whether we should invite Horse Sport Ireland but we will bring in Horse Racing Ireland and the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board, if that is agreed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: Maybe the Deputy could think about what way we handle that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: When we are dealing with the expenditure on emergency services, I suggest we raise the issue of the National Ambulance Service with the witnesses because the two issues cannot be separated. There are real problems with the efficiency of services if ambulances are backed up outside of accident and emergency units, with patients in the ambulances for hours. That situation causes problems with...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: And Erkina House.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: The committee would have to devote a session to both of them. I do not know much about CHO 4 but I know a good bit about CHO 8. The committee would have to devote a whole meeting to that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: That is right.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: Absolutely. That meeting could go be taken somewhat like this morning's session, where much of it was taken up with school estates. That whole meeting could have been around that as opposed to just 80%. We need 100% with the HSE because given the scale of the HSE-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: There is leasing, occupancy, maintenance, spend and all of that. That would be useful. We could-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: What they want can change from time to time. I know from the most recent meeting we had with HSE management that at the present time, a ten- to 12-bed unit is what seems to be the optimum in terms of what works.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: There is also suitability of locations. Obviously, if these facilities are put on the side of a busy road where there are no shops, it is an issue, because people who are somehow independent and will go to a local shop if it is close by may be stuck out in the suburbs somewhere, so there is all of that to consider. I suggest from this discussion, if it is agreed, that we hold a meeting on...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (13 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: 447. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure for the nomination of prison officers who may have distinguished themselves through their actions to be considered for a merit award; and the nominating person or body for a merit award; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38355/22]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (14 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: 87. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will consider expanding the qualifying criteria for the working family payment scheme. [38131/22]