Results 11,661-11,680 of 20,156 for speaker:Brian Stanley
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: The Deputy proposes we write to the Minister for Transport, Deputy Ryan, on this matter so that there is a connection between the proposed DART line and the station.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: The die is cast.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: And it needs to be changed. I propose the committee writes to the Minister about this issue. I am sure citizens would like to have this line connected. It makes perfect sense to connect the DART line with the local station. We will ask for that. In addition, we will suggest that when such anomalies are identified, there must be a process to resolve them. Does that capture the Deputy's...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: We move to the work programme. The engagement schedule to year end is as follows. Next week we will engage with the regulator of the national lottery. The following week, on 1 December, we will have two public engagements. In the morning we will meet representatives from the Department of Social Protection, with whom members may wish to revisit the issue of categorisation of employees....
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Broadcasting Charge (23 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: 81. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider removing the broadcasting levy that is paid by independent radio stations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58187/22]
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: I welcome everyone to this morning's meeting. Apologies have been received from Deputies Imelda Munster, Colm Burke and Verona Murphy. If attending from within the committee room, members and visitors are asked to exercise personal responsibility to protect yourself and others from the risk Covid-19. Members of the committee attending remotely must do so from within the precincts of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. McCarthy. As detailed in the letter of invitation. Ms Boate has five minutes for her opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: I thank Ms Boate. The first committee member to speak today is Deputy Kelly. He has 15 minutes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: Did Ms Boate say that the regulator spent money on a public relations consultant to look into how the regulator communicated with the Department and Premier Lotteries?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: I thought that was what Ms Boate said.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: That could have been done by picking up the phone and talking to someone like Mr. Nolan-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: -----or someone in Premier Lotteries.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: Surely a straight line of communication is better. The regulator can pick up the phone and-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: I got the same call two weeks ago.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: That is a coincidence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: Deputy Dillon is next to speak and I have some questions myself here. On the research carried out by the operator, was the regulator aware that that had happened after the Comptroller and Auditor General’s report had been published, that is, between the period of its publication in September and the date of this meeting?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: At least two of us were contacted, which people are entitled to do, but I found it interesting. Was the regulator contacted by a polling company? No. On the roll-over of the prizes, it has rolled over, I understand, 51 times-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: -----before the must-win-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: It was over 60?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: It was extensive then, in any event, and that was before the must-win limit of €19 million was introduced.