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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: It is at page 80 of the accounts. I am asking what that €4.2 million was spent on.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Can Mr. Field give me a rough idea? It is not a small sum. What type of things was the €4.2 million spent on?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: It has been listed under audit and professional fees.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Will Mr. Field repeat what he said?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: That concludes the questions for today. I thank the witnesses and staff of the university, the HEA and the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. I accept that the witnesses provided a lot of information before and since they came in today. A lot of ground was covered. I acknowledge the work done in preparing for the meeting. I also thank the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: The public business before us this afternoon is minutes, correspondence, work programme and any other business. The minutes of the meeting of 2 May 2024 have been circulated to the committee. Do any members wish to raise any issues? Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. As usual, they will be published on the committee's webpage. We do not have any accounts or financial statements this...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Okay, we will request it. It would be useful to have it along with the letter before they appear before the committee. Thank you for that. We will note and publish it. No. R2573 B is from Ms Stephanie Redmond, private secretary to the Secretary General of the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. It is dated 30 April 2024 and provides a Q1 update to the committee...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: It would also be worthwhile to ask not just how many they reach - what they call "pass" - but how many have actually been connected and what is the uptake on it. That is a key question. I found that in many of the areas people have another private provider with a wireless signal. While some people have switched to the fibre broadband connection, a percentage have not. That would be a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Yes, were specific targets set out?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: There were specific targets that were to be passed. The figures supplied indicate that less than one third of what passed is actually connected.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: There is 75,274 premises by the end of March.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Yes. It is around 30% so 70% of premises did not take it up, which is an interesting figure.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: It is 32%.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: On the face of it, it would seem to indicate that a lot of people in the intervention areas were happy with the service that they had and are staying with it. I cannot remember the exact figures from earlier on for the percentage uptake for the first and second years of the scheme but it certainly was not any better than that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: It was.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: We are nearly four years in but the roll-out does not seem to have gathered pace. While the scheme has passed nearly 250,000 premises, it is not showing signs of greater take-up by those already-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Most homes are now serviced by it and all businesses nearly will be but the uptake is 32%.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: I appreciate the urbanites are different but I know what the Deputy means.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: It seems like that. We will put the matter on our wish list. We will try to organise a hearing with them. It will have to be the far side of the summer because our schedule is full until then. No. R2575B is correspondence from Catherine Martin, the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, dated 30 April 2024, which provides an update to the committee regarding...