Results 10,841-10,860 of 20,156 for speaker:Brian Stanley
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: The response is in front of members. The figures are in it. They will be useful when NBI comes before the committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: In terms of the overall spending and the €2.7 billion that the taxpayer is covering-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: The connection fee is €100 except in certain circumstances in which a certain amount of cable has to be put down.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: That may be a factor but the other side of this from a financial point of view is that we are spending €2.7 billion and have only 15,000 households connected.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: We will move on. The next item is No. 1431B from Mr. Peter Reynolds, chief financial officer of Trinity College, dated 1 September 2022 and providing information we requested regarding non-compliant procurement. The committee has a standing agreement to follow up on and request explanations from bodies that are accountable to it where the Comptroller and Auditor General identifies...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: That seemed to be an unusual explanation. Do any members wish to come in on any of that? I ask for the agreement of the committee to correspond with Mr. Reynolds and to explain that the committee wishes to have a tendered solution for the taxation advice to support overseas offices. Is that agreed? Agreed. There is an issue with education and training boards, ETBs, and non-compliant...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: Its AGM is this coming week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: What is the new name for the body for ETBs, does anybody know?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: It was the national association of vocational education committees, VECs, but-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: That is it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: Its annual conference is in the next week or so.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: Is it agreed that we bring this to the body's attention as well?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: The next item is No. 1434B, from Mark Griffin, Secretary General of the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. It is dated 1 September 2022 and provides a summary of the report requested by the committee regarding climate action plan targets that was undertaken by McKinsey & Company. The Department has consulted with McKinsey and there is no issue with...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: I ask for agreement that we correspond back with the Department and ask what portion of that estimated total cost of €119 billion by 2030 it sees as coming from the public purse. Maybe we could get a figure for that and a breakdown of it across the major sectors: electricity, transport-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: I said €119 billion.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: It is €119 billion: electricity at €36 billion, transport at €42 billion and buildings at €31 billion. Is it agreed that we write back and ask Mr. Griffin if the figure includes everything?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: No, it cannot because there is agriculture as well, but maybe we will ask Mr. Griffin what the full cost is and ask him to break it down by sector but, also, ask him what proportion of that is expected to be funded from public funds for the transition. The next item is No. 1442 B and it is from Eilísh Hardiman, chief executive of Children's Health Ireland, dated 2 September. It provides...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: Deputy Carthy has flagged it as well.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: What does the Deputy propose?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: We will look for that. Is that agreed? Agreed. This will be an ongoing issue for a considerable period. We will note and publish it and request that further information. The next category is correspondence from and related to private individuals and any other correspondence. The first one is No. 1366 from Deputy Catherine Murphy, dated 19 July, to propose that we request information on...