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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: A draft work programme discussion document including proposals has been circulated to members. It sets out the proposed meetings for consideration by the committee. We have agreed to defer a meeting with the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment to a later date. I propose that we instead hold a meeting with Sport Ireland on 15 June, followed on 29 June by a meeting with Sport...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: I recall the Deputy raising the matter in the Dáil Chamber at the time of the establishment of Irish Water.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: I was spokesperson for our outfit at the time. It was one of things that bugged us. It was an issue for me, Deputy Murphy and one or two other Deputies.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: The cost of connection fees is an area I have flagged. I have also flagged the delays in getting connections, the cost of taking estates in charge and the fact that some of that is being held up and local authorities are left to carry with the baby without any funding to do it. Those are issues.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: That is a legitimate observation, particularly in light of the handover that is happening now. I told the then Minister, former Deputy Phil Hogan, that all this would happen. It is on the record.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: I agree.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: I could bring the Deputy to two projects that have been slowed down.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: Those projects have not been taken in charge when local authority engineers say that could be done.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: I can only speak about my area but that is true with respect to less than a handful of estates. The expectation for the majority of estates for which bonds were paid was that they would be taken in charge. Irish Water is now putting new conditions on it. I do not want to open a big discussion on the matter. There is a problem with taking in charge.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: The opposite is the case for the ones I am talking about. They were all to be brought into public charge. It was in the conditions of planning permission.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: I will show the Deputy two schemes
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: I am told that process is okay in Kildare but the Deputy might tell me something different. I can tell the committee that in the most midland county, County Laois, it is difficult. There have been many complaints about it, including this week. We will try to slot Irish Water into one of the July slots. We need to start looking inside Irish Water, as it were. It is timely. It will soon...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: Yes, €100,000 is reported to have been spent on rebranding. That should be put on the invitation. It is one of the issues I would like to know about. I hope I am not told that all the vans, trucks, helmets and so on have to be sprayed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: No. Uisce Éireann is already on the logo. I welcome the fact that it is an Irish name. It has been there from the start. It could have been called that from the start. Now we are told that a company is being paid that kind of money to do the rebranding. That is absolutely bananas and nuts. Anyone in the corridor or in the street would say it should just be done. Uisce...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: Deputy Dillon recently asked for Inland Fisheries Ireland to come before the committee. It is a somewhat depressing matter. I ask members to take that into consideration. If we invite Irish Water, that would mean putting either NAMA or Inland Fisheries Ireland off until the autumn. Perhaps the NAMA report could wait until one of the first sessions in September..
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: It is in the hands of the committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: I will bring in the Comptroller and Auditor General on that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: When will the financial statements come?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: Do members wish to go ahead with IFI? There seems to be a little bit of doubt.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: My sense would be that we should meet IFI before the summer and hold off on NAMA until the autumn. Are members happy with that? Agreed. I am mindful that Deputy Dillon raised it a few times. Other suggestions include meeting the Department of Transport about chapter 18 of the Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2021 with respect to motor tax receipts, meeting the Irish...