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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2023)
Brian Stanley: Do any members wish to comment on those? No. Can we agree to note the listing of accounts and financial statements? Agreed. As usual, the listing of accounts and financial statements will be published as part of our minutes. No. 3 is correspondence. As previously agreed, items that were not flagged for discussion for this meeting will continue to be dealt with in accordance with the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2023)
Brian Stanley: In looking at this as the Committee of Public Accounts it triggered that letter to the Department of the Taoiseach. It is about the sheer cost and the length of time it takes to actually get to the truth. Is there anything else we can do in this regard?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2023)
Brian Stanley: Perhaps this is something we may come back to.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2023)
Brian Stanley: I do not think it is about us doing the investigation. It is more about us as the Committee of Public Accounts coming up with a better suggestion with regard to how tribunals are carried out and what mechanisms we have for investigating tribunals. I propose that we write back to the Department of the Taoiseach acknowledging the letter and asking what work has been done in looking at...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2023)
Brian Stanley: Sorry, yes, that would be to the Department of Justice.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2023)
Brian Stanley: Okay. Is that agreed? Agreed. The next category is correspondencefrom and related to private individuals and any other correspondence. Several items have been held over from our meeting of 9 February. The first is No. 1699 from the clerk of the Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media and dated 23 January 2023. The joint committee requests the Committee of Public...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2023)
Brian Stanley: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2023)
Brian Stanley: Is this on the matter of grants for startup businesses?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2023)
Brian Stanley: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2023)
Brian Stanley: It has been received but it came after the deadline for circulation to committee members-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2023)
Brian Stanley: -----so the secretariat advised me it will be on for next week and we will deal with that important matter for the Deputy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2023)
Brian Stanley: We move to the work programme. Next week we will engage with the Central Bank and representatives from the Revenue Commissioners and the Department of Finance on chapter 14 of the Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2020, which is concerned with the assessment and collection of insurance compensation fund levies, and on a Comptroller and Auditor General section 2 report entitled...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2023)
Brian Stanley: Okay, we will include that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2023)
Brian Stanley: It is the Department of Housing Local Government and Heritage. It is a three-month window.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Feb 2023)
Brian Stanley: Okay. That concludes our consideration of the work programme. The last item is any other business. Nobody wants to raise anything. I thank everybody. Go raibh míle maith agaibh go léir.
- Housing and Evictions: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2023)
Brian Stanley: The eviction ban ends at the end of next month. I am extremely concerned about the number of families and individual renters who are facing the prospect of homelessness through eviction if the ban is not extended. Renters have come into my office in the past week. They are at their wits' end and absolutely terrified. I cannot express this clearly enough. They are terrified of what is...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 14: Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (23 Feb 2023) Brian Stanley: Representatives from the Office of the Revenue Commissioners, Mr. Eugene Creighton, assistant secretary, large corporate division, and Ms Angela O'Gorman, Comptroller and Auditor General and committee liaison person, are also joining us. They are all very welcome. I remind all those in attendance to ensure their mobile phones are on silent or switched off. Before we start, I will explain...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 14: Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (23 Feb 2023) Brian Stanley: Before I invite Mr. Molloy to make an opening statement on behalf on the Central Bank, I note it was the expectation of the committee that Mr. Gabriel Makhlouf, the Governor of the Central Bank, would attend this meeting as the accountable person in respect of the matters the committee wishes to examine. I understand we received a letter from Mr. Makhlouf, which was sent on Monday,...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 14: Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (23 Feb 2023) Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. Molloy. Before we hear from the members, I wish to convey the apologies of Deputy Munster. Deputy Catherine Murphy will join us later in the day. She is tied up with parliamentary duties.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 14: Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (23 Feb 2023) Brian Stanley: We will revisit this matter.