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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: It should be very clear that there must be a very good reason to deviate from the criteria. There should be an exceptional reason for it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Yes, that is the point I am making.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: I think we are okay with No. R2419 B. We will note and publish it. Is that agreed? I will move on to the work programme, which should be visible on the screens. Members have been circulated with a draft discussion document. Next week, on 7 March, we will engage with Inland Fisheries Ireland on the financial statements for 2022. Representatives of the Department of the Environment,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: She is the Accounting Officer.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Is Deputy Murphy saying it should be the Accounting Officer from the Department?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: It will be Drew Harris. The Department normally sends an assistant secretary.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Our first meeting after the Easter recess is on 11 April. We will meet with the University of Limerick on the 2022 financial statements. One area of interest is governance and associated due diligence of the university's purchase of a site in Limerick city centre in 2019 and the recent purchase of houses for student accommodation in Rhebogue. Is it agreed to invite representatives of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: It will be useful to have them there. On 18 April we will meet with officials from the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth on the 2022 appropriation account for Vote 40. The international protection accommodation services has been flagged as a special area of interest. I ask members to flag with the clerk any other areas of interest they want to raise. We...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Yes. Deputy McAuliffe is a Deputy from Dublin and Deputy Devlin is in Kingstown.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Will it go as far as Deputy Murphy's place?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: The Department of Education is another one, as is the Office of Public Works. We also have the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications regarding the Comptroller and Auditor General's chapter 9 on cybersecurity, the National Shared Services Office and the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform on chapter 18. A meeting with the Irish Horse Racing...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: I am just checking as I scribbled a few notes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Is that this year?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: That has been ten years in the making.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Mr. McCarthy said the audit is for 2023. Does he think it will be ready by June or July?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: That would be excellent. This would be the first opportunity to examine Irish Water.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: It is not that we want to load everything on top of the staff of the Comptroller and Auditor General's office but it should have been under the remit of the Comptroller and Auditor General from the start. At the time, Deputy Murphy and I were the Opposition spokespeople on it. Was she an Independent or in the Social Democrats?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Was the Deputy not a Social Democrat then?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: We raised at that time the need for Irish Water to be audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: I am one of them myself. Is Deputy Burke happy enough with the work programme?