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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)

Brian Stanley: We will follow up on that. No. 1607B is from Ms Carol Boate, regulator of the national lottery, dated 30 November, providing information requested by the committee on the number of people who commenced a self-exclusion in 2020 and 2021. This was raised at our recent meeting. It is proposed to query why the breakdown of self-exclusionary periods by length is not available and to note and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)

Brian Stanley: Is the Deputy seeking that information for 2021?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)

Brian Stanley: We will request that information from the regulator.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)

Brian Stanley: The terms of the licence certainly seem to leave a lot to be desired. The problem is the operator not being accountable to the committee. The regulator is accountable, however, and that is the route we will take with it. We will follow up on that. The next correspondence is No. 1613B from Mr. Ciarán Breen, director of the State Claims Agency, dated 6 December 2022, providing...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)

Brian Stanley: At the end of many of these inquiries and tribunals, we are left with a big bill. There are bills of €68 million and €142 million and sometimes there are very few positive outcomes. In the first instance, we should write to the Department of the Taoiseach and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to ask them, in view of the fact that we are looking at almost...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)

Brian Stanley: It would be good if we could do that. I thank the Deputy. No. 1615 is from David Moloney, who is the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. It is dated 6 December and it provides information that was requested by the committee regarding the status of the business case for the relocation of the National Maternity Hospital. I propose to note and publish this...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)

Brian Stanley: Okay. We will follow up on that. No. 1621 is from Ray Mitchell, assistant national director of the HSE. It is dated 12 December and it provides information that was requested by the committee arising from its consideration of a report entitled Funding and Deficit Challenges in Voluntary Disability Services Agencies. Members will recall that this concerns section 38 and 39 organisations,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)

Brian Stanley: That is all right. We will hold it over until January. The next category of correspondence relates to private individuals, and any other correspondence. There are three items we are waiting to hand over from the previous meeting and if we can, I would like us to deal with them today. They have been held over already twice. One is No. 1574 from Deputy Hourigan, dated 11 November, and No....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)

Brian Stanley: We are on No. 1621, which is a charity.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)

Brian Stanley: A letter was received from Deputy Carthy regarding it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)

Brian Stanley: Deputies Catherine Murphy and Carroll Mac Neill raised it. We put it back for two weeks, so I propose that we deal with it today, as has been agreed. It has been put back twice already.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)

Brian Stanley: We will wait for that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)

Brian Stanley: My understanding is that it was raised here in 2019 and very clear answers were given at that stage. If that turns out to be the case, we could ask for the transcript of the meetings. We will await that information. If the committee agrees, we can follow up on it at that point.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)

Brian Stanley: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)

Brian Stanley: I do not think the correspondence has gone yet, but it is imminent. It will be going in the next couple of days. It will definitely go this week. Is that okay?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)

Brian Stanley: It is important that we follow up on that. We were hoping that this would come up again today and we could deal with it. We will send the request to the Charities Regulator for its response and then we will deal with it fully at that stage. We will move on to No. 1584. It has been held over as well. It is from an individual and is dated 19 November. It is a press statement regarding...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)

Brian Stanley: Okay. Yes, Deputy Carthy can firm up on that and we can deal with it. The next item is No. 1619 from Deputy Catherine Murphy. It is dated 9 December. It is proposed to request information from RTÉ, including a business case, regarding expenditure on a musical production. Does the Deputy want to explain what this is about?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)

Brian Stanley: Okay, I thank the Deputy. That completes the discussion of correspondence We will move on then to the work programme. At the meeting of 1 December, we agreed our work programme for the new year, as follows. I know it is a bit away now, but it is hard to have it our heads. The first meeting of the new year is scheduled for 19 January. That is with the Housing Agency and the Approved...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2020: Housing Agency
Financial Statements 2021: Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority
Chapter 7: Housing Agency Revolving Acquisition Fund
Section 2 Report – Unauthorised Release of Funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: I welcome everyone to the meeting. Happy New Year to one and all, guests and members. On behalf of the committee, I congratulate Deputy Carroll MacNeill on her appointment as Minister of State at the Department of Finance. It is a very important role. I acknowledge her contribution to this committee and I wish her well in that new role. Hopefully, we will have a replacement soon. We...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2020: Housing Agency
Financial Statements 2021: Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority
Chapter 7: Housing Agency Revolving Acquisition Fund
Section 2 Report – Unauthorised Release of Funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: I understand the Department became aware, on 19 December, that the agency was to come before the committee today. Is that correct?