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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: I suggest one way to deal with it. We have the HSE pencilled in for 4 May, so one way of dealing with it is to would bring in the Secretary General of the Department of Health on the same day, if the Deputy wanted to do that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: I want answers ion another matter as well, which is the services, material and items normally provided under the medical card scheme in nursing homes. We were promised a reply on that. This has come up a number of times, and it is really frustrating. One issue around that needs to be clarified relates to the contracts that the HSE has with the private nursing homes. The officials were...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: I know. If it is agreed by the committee to have a meeting-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: Let us be clear about this. If it is agreed by the committee to have a special meeting, I have no problem with that. I agree with the Deputy. The can is being kicked down the road on it, and we need to try to catch hold of it and stop it. We are being fobbed off there and we just need definitive answers within the timeline that was promised.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: No. 1785 is correspondence from an individual regarding the Kolbe Special School, Portlaoise, County Laois. It is proposed to request information from the Department of Education on the matters raised regarding public expenditure and request the correspondent's consent to forward the correspondence to the Joint Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: I visited that school in Monaghan more than 20 years ago as part of a vocational education committee, VEC, delegation seeking to set up a Gaelscoil in Laois. Mr. Duffy, as I recall, was the chairman of the board. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: Yes, I remember his name. That school was in prefabs at the time. Seeing the conditions at Kolbe is believing. It is intolerable. We will copy our correspondence to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform. The Deputy is correct to say that Department was cited. The issue of construction inflation arose at the meeting last night regarding...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: I have been dealing with a school since 2018 that has been told a lack of money will not hold up this project and that money is available.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: There are significant pressures.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Deputy. We will request that. That concludes our consideration of the correspondence for this week. Moving on to the work programme, at our next meeting, on 30 March, we will engage with the Department of Rural and Community Development in regard to its appropriation accounts for 2021 and chapter 6 of the Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2021, relating to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: Okay, we will pursue that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: Is everything okay up to 27 April?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: We also agreed to schedule meetings with the University of Limerick, UL, and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, and the secretariat is working on making these arrangements. Does any member wish to raise other matters?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: Flag it up with the secretariat and me.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: Yes, that is fine. Does any member wish to raise any other matter? We will move into private session briefly before adjourning until 9.30 a.m. next Thursday, 30 March.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (21 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: 1428. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the announcement in Budget 2023 that those on income below the median wage would be eligible for a GP medical card; and when this will be activated. [13442/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: 100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reinstate priority approval for a school (details supplied) given the new building has now been put on hold. [14130/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: 144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will give approval for the design team to proceed on works for temporary accommodation to cater for an ASD unit at a school (details supplied). [14131/23]