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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Brian Stanley: Surely it would need a full business plan.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Brian Stanley: And use the mansion.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Brian Stanley: It may be more appropriate to have it for six years, going back to 2017.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Brian Stanley: Because it changed then with the various-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Brian Stanley: Mr. Maher has indicated.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Brian Stanley: We will finish where we began, which is with the fish. This is what it is all about, or should be about anyway. I am not an expert in it and know very little about it. I live in the most inland county. It is the only county that does not touch a county that touches the sea. The witnesses are correct, in that I remember a lot of freshwater trout in the rivers. It is a long time since I...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Brian Stanley: I thank the witnesses and the support staff from the Department and from Inland Fisheries Ireland for the work involved in preparing for today's meeting.. I thank the Comptroller and Auditor General and the staff for their attendance and for the help they have provided. Is it agreed the clerk will receive any follow-up information and will carry out any agreed actions raised at the meeting?...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2023)
Brian Stanley: We will resume in public session. I thank everyone for reappearing. I hope that, in a week's time, they can end shoving dinners down their necks and so forth. They might even be able to have a glass of wine and take a little longer digesting their dinners, sleep better, etc. We will be joined this afternoon by Ms Ramona Quinn of the Office of the Parliamentary Legal Advisers, OPLA. We...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2023)
Brian Stanley: The business before us this afternoon is as follows: minutes; accounts and financial statements; correspondence; the work programme; and any other business. The minutes of the meetings of 22, 26 and 29 June have been circulated to members. Is everyone happy with them? Does any member wish to raise matters regarding them? Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. As usual, they will be published...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2023)
Brian Stanley: In relation to the Loughs Agency, it is unusual. Every one of the accounts that came before us for the six bodies had a clear audit opinion, which I welcome and acknowledge. Regarding the situation that the Loughs Agency is caught in, if and when - I hope it is sooner rather than later - the Executive is up and running and, as a consequence, the North-South Ministerial Council is in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2023)
Brian Stanley: The Executive must be in place for North-South Ministerial Council to sit, but having the Executive in place does not guarantee that, as we know - in the last term, the Executive was meeting but there a block was put on North-South Ministerial Council meetings. Some people were not willing to attend.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2023)
Brian Stanley: Is this relevant to what we are discussing?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2023)
Brian Stanley: I will allow Deputy Burke to come in afterwards. We must keep the meeting moving. I know it is an important question and Deputy Burke was right to raise it this morning - I heard him raise it. We need an answer to that. Can we agree and note the listing of accounts and financial statements? Agreed. As usual, the listing of accounts and statements will be published as part of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2023)
Brian Stanley: Okay. Do other members wish to contribute on this issue? No. There was also an issue concerning expenditure on the appraisal of the opera site. Some figures, tables and other information have been set out in this correspondence regarding our discussions which may be of interest to members. It is proposed to note and publish this correspondence. Is that agreed? Agreed. No. R1949B is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2023)
Brian Stanley: We can. It states in the document that the Minister had written to the chair of the IHRB stating his concerns that the former CEO's early retirement package exceeded the maximum amount set out in the IHRB's early retirement and voluntary redundancy package. This is one of the relevant aspects here.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2023)
Brian Stanley: We can. No. R1960B is from Dr Úna May, CEO, Sport Ireland, and is dated 26 June. It provides information extending an invitation to the committee to visit the Sport Ireland campus in Blanchardstown on a date of the committee’s choosing. The members will remember this from the day we had Sport Ireland with us. It is proposed to note and publish this correspondence. Is that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2023)
Brian Stanley: We will take up the invitation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2023)
Brian Stanley: Okay. We will visit that body as well. I thank Deputy Murphy. No. R1972B is from Ms Oonagh McPhillips, Secretary General of the Department of Justice, and is dated 27 June. It provides information requested by the committee arising from the meeting with the Department of Justice on 25 May 2023 in relation to the justice Vote. It is proposed to note and publish this correspondence. Is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2023)
Brian Stanley: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2023)
Brian Stanley: The Deputy is not down as having flagged it, but she may go ahead.