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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: Has this issue come up before of funding being transferred with regard to Curragh Racecourse Limited?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: Horse Racing Ireland is due to come before us. I want to clarify that Curragh Racecourse Limited is a separate entity. It is a limited company.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: Mr. McCarthy does not audit that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: My concern is that this loss of €108 million is funding by public money that has gone into this company, and the Comptroller and Auditor General does not have access to audit their accounts and, therefore, the Committee of Public Accounts does not have any remit to examine them. We should note this for when Horse Racing Ireland is in before the committee. It is a serious matter that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: What is the total loss?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: With the Assembly not sitting we will have to do the work.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: Yes. We will certainly put the work in front of them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: It is a special area of interest.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: Will Mr. McCarthy indicate what is the level of non-compliance and the value of it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: It is €551,000.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: Total payment was €1 million with €100,000 in penalties.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: Are members happy with that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: One of the things I noticed in the 68 of them is that the vast majority of them are compliant.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: It is good to see that. There is a wide range of bodies there. From our point of view, as the Committee of Public Accounts, it is just useful to point out that the vast majority have their accounts in good shape.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: I am concerned about the Horse Racing Ireland account and that of the company Curragh Racecourse Limited-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: -----and about that €1.8 million. It is not the first time we have had to discuss that. Can we agree and note the listing of financial statements as agreed? Agreed. Thank you, members, for your co-operation with that. As usual, the listings of accounts and financial statements will be published as part of our minutes. At this point we can break for a quick ten minutes before...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: We will make a start and stop at 11 a.m. Moving to correspondence, as previously agreed, items that were 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 taken by the committee regarding correspondence are recorded in the minutes of the committee meetings and published on the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: There is no service in County Laois.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: This issue concerns children up to 16 years of age. They are not being seen in County Laois, in most cases, before the age of 16, which means that they go to secondary school without ever having seen the school dentist. The public system for adults, provided through the medical card scheme, has completely collapsed. People who are already in the system cannot access dental services and...