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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: Since no members wish to raise issues related to those accounts and financial statements, can we agree to note them? Agreed. As usual, the list of accounts and financial statements will be published as part of our minutes. Let me move on to correspondence. As previously agreed, items not flagged for discussion at this meeting will continue to be dealt with in accordance with the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: Table 1 on page 2 of the letter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: Does Mr. McCarthy understand the date is 1 March 2025?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: That is on the next page.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: On the day that those concerned were in, they said some-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: According to the final outline, it is 31 July 2028.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: So there is another five years to go. In 2014 it was recommended, and in 2017 it started. Mr. Seamus McCarthy:Effectively, the first phase was due to have been completed by July of this year, with the other phases or stages to be completed over a period of five years.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: It is deeply frustrating that the timeline extends until past the middle of 2028. The other issue was that of home support activity. Page 13 states that, as of July, there were 5,992 people assessed and waiting for carers. That figure seems to be sticking stubbornly at around the 6,000 mark. I ask that we get back to Mr. Gloster in the HSE and ask whether the waiting time will be...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: That is right, but-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: That is the point I am making. I recollect the number was around the 6,000 mark a few years ago. However, in each of the six-month periods, it has stayed at around that level. The data show a very slight reduction of 300 or so, which is welcome, but over the first six or seven months of the year, the figure has hung around the 6,000 mark. In July, it came in at a total of 5,992. It is a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: No. It gives timelines in respect of when the director general was formally suspended, when the Department was notified and how the Minister was notified, which it states was via a phone call from the chair of the board. It also includes the date that the former director general formally resigned, which was 29 June. There is a reply there regarding payments to Ryan Tubridy. We asked when...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: I am sorry.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: My apologies. That is correct. She resigned three days earlier. That concludes correspondence and we will move on to the work programme. A draft programme has been circulated to members for discussion. It is appearing on the screens. Next week is the recess week. It is agreed that correspondence for the next meeting will be circulated to members on 2 November. On 9 November, we will...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (7 Nov 2023)
Brian Stanley: 436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to extend recognition to route 4 training through the Teaching Council for trained staff to work with special needs children. [47324/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (7 Nov 2023)
Brian Stanley: 1104. To ask the Minister for Health the Government’s up-to-date position regarding a scheme to assist those frontline workers who are absent from employment due to long-Covid. [47348/23]
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Financial Statements 2022: Sustainability Energy Authority of Ireland
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8: Performance of Certain Residential Retrofit Schemes (9 Nov 2023) Brian Stanley: Apologies have been received from Deputies Ó Cathasaigh, Munster and Verona Murphy. I welcome the witnesses. I remind all those in attendance to ensure their mobile phones are on silent mode or switched off. Before we start, I wish to explain some limitations to parliamentary privilege and the practice of the Houses as regards reference witnesses may make to other persons in their...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Financial Statements 2022: Sustainability Energy Authority of Ireland
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8: Performance of Certain Residential Retrofit Schemes (9 Nov 2023) Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. McCarthy. I wish Ms Buckley well and all the best in her new appointment. As we said in our letter of invitation, she has five minutes to make her opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Financial Statements 2022: Sustainability Energy Authority of Ireland
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8: Performance of Certain Residential Retrofit Schemes (9 Nov 2023) Brian Stanley: Briefly, please.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Financial Statements 2022: Sustainability Energy Authority of Ireland
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8: Performance of Certain Residential Retrofit Schemes (9 Nov 2023) Brian Stanley: That is okay and I thank Ms Buckley. I now invite Mr. Walsh to make his opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Financial Statements 2022: Sustainability Energy Authority of Ireland
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8: Performance of Certain Residential Retrofit Schemes (9 Nov 2023) Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. Walsh. The first committee member this morning is Deputy Alan Kelly, who has 15 minutes.