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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Apr 2023)
Brian Stanley: I would be on for bringing them in. When Irish Water was established, many of us in the House at the time were of the opinion that it needed to be accountable to the Oireachtas and the Committee of Public Accounts. It was not the way it was established as part of the Ervia group. It is now. It is since-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Apr 2023)
Brian Stanley: It is, therefore, accountable from 1 January this year. I propose that we try to get it on to the work programme. There may be administrative issues around that on which we will get the secretariat involved. We must do that in private session because it is not allowed to come in on public session. We will hold that issue for now. The other body we should look at and try to get in is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Apr 2023)
Brian Stanley: Its accounts should be audited by the Comptroller and Auditor general, though.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Apr 2023)
Brian Stanley: I understand that it is an adjunct of that Department. I will propose that. As I said, if members have issues they wish to raise or particular bodies they want to bring in for whatever reason, they should please flag them. That concludes the consideration of the work programme for today. As there is no other business members wish to raise in public session, we will now move into private...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (27 Apr 2023)
Brian Stanley: 219. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the 3% pay increase granted in February 2022 to public servants under the ‘pay restoration programme’ will be paid out to those workers who have not yet received it. [20005/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (27 Apr 2023)
Brian Stanley: 368. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update and timeline for works to be carried out on side A of Abbeyleix Hospital to cater for discharges from Portlaoise Hospital; and the current position regarding the recruitment of staff, including a consultant geriatrician, for the unit. [20141/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Ukraine War (25 Apr 2023)
Brian Stanley: 63. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when local authorities in counties Laois and Offaly can expect to receive funding from the Ukrainian refugee Community Recognition Fund. [19281/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Economic Policy (25 Apr 2023)
Brian Stanley: 73. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she has read the Independent Report to Advance Community Wealth Building in Northern Ireland published in October 2022 by the Department for Communities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19282/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (25 Apr 2023)
Brian Stanley: 502. To ask the Minister for Health if all agencies that had workers providing services during Covid-19 have now received the pandemic bonus payment into their accounts. [18915/23]
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: I welcome everyone to the meeting. If attending the meeting from within the committee room, members and witnesses are asked to exercise personal responsibility to protect themselves and others from the risk of contracting Covid-19. Members of the committee attending remotely must do so from within the precincts of the Parliament. This is due to the constitutional requirement that, to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: Mr. Gleeson will understand that as a committee-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: -----we have to wade through a lot of material, and it is important that we get it in time in order that we can prepare properly. I thank him for the explanation. I will now bring in the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, for his opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: I ask the Deputy to be brief. There will be a second round of questions.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: Thanks, Deputy. We will get you back in later on.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: We have representatives here from the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. Perhaps the Deputy wants to put the question to them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: There will be a second round, Deputy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: Briefly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: The next committee member to contribute is Deputy Catherine Murphy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: Does the Deputy have any further questions?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Brian Stanley: Mr. Gleeson answered a question about the source of funding for the horse and greyhound fund. The betting tax fills its coffers, with 100% of its funding coming from the betting tax. That has always been a question. There are no performance metrics provided for that fund in the Revised Estimates for Vote 30? Why is that?