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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: We should ask for clarification regarding this and specifically what measures are in place for farmers to get directly involved and what assistance is available to them. They are being told to scale down in relation to dairy or beef production. This was the one thing that was held up as being an income generator for farmers to make up for that loss. We will seek that information from the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: I will make a suggestion. It is a major initiative in respect of the forestry programme and as we will be dealing with the 2021 accounts of the Department, I suggest that we bring in the Department to talk about forestry and carbon sequestration specifically within the next months.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: What I suggest is that we ask those questions but I strongly suggest that we put this on to the work programme as well. The Deputy is correct; it will involve other Departments but the key player is the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, so we will request that information. Moving on to No. 1633B, it is from Mr. Ray Mitchell, assistant national director of the HSE, is dated...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: And the trains that are mentioned in paragraph 2?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: The letter states that turnback facilities and the layout of the existing train station at Kilcock would require reconstruction to facilitate the turnback capacity. The Deputy has more information on this than I do.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: The next one is No. 1640B, which is from Mr. Mark Griffin, Secretary General of the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, dated 21 December 2022, providing information the committee requested regarding the ownership of National Broadband Ireland and an update regarding the national broadband plan. It is proposed to note and publish it. Is that agreed? Agreed. Deputy...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: There is an industry in building the hospital, but there is also an industry here around claims.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: There is literally a parallel industry of claims. Being reasonable and practical about it, all of us would accept that with such a large project there would be a large number of claims but we are looking at numbers in the region of just over 1,000.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: There is potentially half a billion euro extra here-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: -----because of these claims.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: We have the board on the work programme.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: We should ask as well whether there are legal implications in terms of the handover. When a contractor goes on site to build a house or whatever else, there comes a point when there is a handover. The question is whether legal issues arise if there are still several hundred claims in dispute, if not all of them have been resolved and some of them are before the courts, and if there are...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: Let us get clarification.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: Let us hope so.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: I know.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: We will see where this goes. We will seek clarification. If the price of glass has gone up, and there is high inflation on glass, which I think there is, that would certainly make it a lot more expensive than what it costs because there is a lot of glass.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: Will that be within three months?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: We could get the board in. I will not say what we can do, based on the previous discussion. No. 1643B is from Mr. Graham Doyle, Secretary General, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. It is dated 22 December 2022 - we had them all very busy in the week before Christmas - and provides information requested by the committee regarding reviewing planning permissions granted by...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: It is a chicken and egg situation because the process of putting the masts in place could pass out the legal system. In other words, if matters wind up in the courts and during that time planning permission is granted for a large number of these masts in places that are being disputed, the masts could be put in place. That is my understanding of the position.