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- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Brian Stanley: Up to last year, we could not use construction wood waste in this State. We could be shipping some over the Border, however. It is allowed to be used in that jurisdiction. I ask the Department to look at that area. It does not make sense that we cannot use material from another jurisdiction, particularly when there is a large construction sector here at the moment. That should be used in...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Brian Stanley: We are lucky to have that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Brian Stanley: If we used those semi-State organisations more and brought them into the generation game, we would not be as vulnerable to the outworkings of Mr. Putin's illegal war. I just want to highlight that. It is a question of policy but from an official point of view we should do anything that can be done to accelerate that. We will see jobs and power coming over the next few years as that starts...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Brian Stanley: The business before the committee is as follows: minutes, accounts and financial statements, correspondence, work programme and any other business. The first item is minutes from the meeting dated 6 October 2022, which have been circulated. Do members wish to raise any matter regarding the minutes? Are the minutes agreed to? Agreed. As usual, they will be published on the committee's web...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Brian Stanley: Are the issues arising at the landing centres?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Brian Stanley: Some of this situation has been highlighted. The industry is important. Is Deputy Murphy's proposal agreed to? Agreed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Brian Stanley: The secretariat will seek specific information on what will happen when the arrangement runs out at the end of the year. Do members wish to raise any other matter on the financial statements and accounts?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Brian Stanley: The ETBs have advised us in the past that there is a problem, particularly for smaller ones, in that they may not have dedicated staff to deal solely with procurement, just because of scale. That tends to be a problem.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Brian Stanley: Okay. We will note the listing of financial statements. Is that agreed? Agreed. As usual, the listing of accounts and financial statements will be published as part of the minutes. We will move on 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...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Brian Stanley: From previous discussions around this, we recognise the fact that the lease agreement is there. It is a legal agreement. It is very hard to change leases or legal agreements when they are in place. People are dependent, to a certain degree, on negotiations and goodwill. It is an improvement on the way things were but it does not go the whole way.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Brian Stanley: We can ask the OPW that. It is an issue we have teased out with it at previous meetings and the previous committee would have dealt with it as well. We have raised this. The Deputy is correct that any improvement is welcome. What is important to ask now is what steps have been taken at this point. We have addressed with the OPW previously the need to put measures in place to make sure...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Brian Stanley: When it finally found-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Brian Stanley: We could put that in the letter as well. The OPW is due to come before us in the very near future. If the Deputy wants, he can hold onto that issue until that day and ask-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Brian Stanley: Let us ask the OPW what steps it has taken with regard to both of those matters. We will ask about the delay with Glanmire Garda station the Deputy referred to in which the closing of the sale was delayed by the Office of Public Works. We will ask about the reasons for this and what steps are being taken to avoid that sort of situation arising again. We will also ask about the quantity...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Brian Stanley: Is the committee agreeable to that? Okay. The next item of correspondence is from Mr. Kevin McCarthy, Secretary General of the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. It is dated 27 September 2022 and provides information requested by the committee regarding international protection accommodation. Members might recall that certain functions transferred from...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Brian Stanley: Does the Deputy propose that we do that by way of correspondence or that we wait until the Department comes before us?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Brian Stanley: That is obviously because of the accommodation crisis outside.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Brian Stanley: That is what is happening.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Brian Stanley: Do any other members wish to come in on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)
Brian Stanley: If the Deputy could hold on a second, I ask that he puts up his hand signal when he wishes to come in.