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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

James O'Connor: What proportion of that funding goes to support the point-to-point industry?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

James O'Connor: Only €600,000.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

James O'Connor: Deputy Murphy touched on a serious issue. I am involved in point-to-point racing and disclosing that is important. The insurance costs in that are frightening. Different bodies within racing look after each aspect of it, but there is a collective need to seriously examine that problem. I am getting many calls from point-to-point committees, not only from within my constituency. There is...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

James O'Connor: That would be helpful.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

James O'Connor: I have a question for HRI on administration costs from 2019 into 2020. There is an increase from €7.83 million in 2019 to €8.423 million in 2020. I want to get a background on why that administration cost increase happened. I think it was related to labour costs but what are these labour costs? Will Ms Eade explain that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

James O'Connor: I understand there was a substantial rise in HRI's legal costs in 2020, so I ask the witnesses to comment on this.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

James O'Connor: Okay. I would like the attendance figures for the Curragh. I understand HRI probably has those, although the witnesses might not have them with them. Could I be furnished with them, please? I would be interested to see them from a transparency perspective and as an indication of where things stand and what it is going to take to make things work to get a good return for the organisations...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

James O'Connor: Mr. O'Loughlin should not worry; I am well in tune with this. I will not lie, however, as I do not necessarily agree. This is an issue. There is a need to engage with the point-to-point committee in Kinsale on this matter, because it is a bone of contention. Perhaps with costs, going into that time of year, there may be an issue with getting stewards, etc. I do not know but several...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

James O'Connor: Yes, but I have one other question.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

James O'Connor: There are huge changes happening in the regulation of gambling. There are divergent views, which is the nature of this issue, and it is very problematic. One change that has been touted, and on which there has been some discussion, is the removal of ATMs from racecourses. What impact does Ms Eade think that change would have? I think that it would be detrimental to the economic...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

James O'Connor: Has the matter been put to bed?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (22 Sep 2022)

James O'Connor: 35. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has undertaken any work to address the current lack of bus drivers; if consideration is been given to temporarily increase the maximum age limit for school bus drivers to alleviate the pressure on bus companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46335/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (22 Sep 2022)

James O'Connor: 72. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current position regarding the Cork Metropolitan Area Transport Strategy project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46334/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (22 Sep 2022)

James O'Connor: 116. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue from corporation tax in the context of growing global inflation rates and economic difficulties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46333/22]

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

James O'Connor: I will follow up on an excellent round of questioning by Deputy Hourigan with this question. Was the Office of Public Works on site in Owenacurra carrying out measurements or surveying the building?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

James O'Connor: That is why I am asking. The reason I am asking Mr. Fitzgerald that is that there are other buildings in close proximity in the immediate site next door to the Owenacurra centre over which the Office of Public Works would have maintenance remit. That is what is plugging my curiosity, as it were. It has been brought to my attention by people in the local community that the Office of Public...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

James O'Connor: What has been extraordinarily frustrating from my perspective, and Mr. Fitzgerald can attest to this because we raised it immediately with him at the first Oireachtas forum that took place for counties Cork and Kerry in Ballincollig following the HSE's decision, is the constant changing of the story around why the centre was being closed. First, the decision was postponed. Then we heard of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

James O'Connor: I have to pause there because my time is limited. I asked two questions and neither has been answered. To be fair I asked the questions of Mr. Reid as well. I will be very clear and ask them one at a time. First, will Mr. Fitzgerald rule out here and now that the Owenacurra Centre site will be sold for any purpose other than mental health care?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

James O'Connor: Mr. Fitzgerald should bear in mind that he told me and other Oireachtas colleagues of mine that day in Ballincollig that site was going to be retained by the HSE for mental health care services. That is news to me now that we are getting a watered-down commitment here at the Committee of Public Accounts in that regard. As Mr. Fitzgerald knows, no cameras are present at those HSE meetings...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

James O'Connor: Mr. Fitzgerald is not committing to it either.