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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)
John Brady: Our witnesses are very welcome to today's meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts. Before we proceed, I have a few housekeeping matters to go through as follows. Members are reminded of the provisions within Standing Order 226 that the committee shall refrain from inquiring into the merits of policy or policies of the Government or a Minister of the Government or the merits of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)
John Brady: A number of members have indicated. We will take Deputy Farrelly first.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)
John Brady: I thank the members. I want to come in on a couple of points. On the expired PPE, the figure of €33.8 million is extraordinary. The Comptroller and Auditor General touched on this following the question from Deputy Connolly. This figure is probably only a snapshot. It would be good to get a true figure as to how much has been written off to date and how much storage has cost over...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)
John Brady: I think we should do that. This stuff is only being disposed of once it reaches the expiry date. How much more equipment is in storage that has not reached its expiry date? Are we going to have similar figures next year and over the next number of years? We need to get an inventory of how much equipment is in storage there that, realistically, is not going to be utilised. We should write...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)
John Brady: Okay, that is fair enough.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)
John Brady: Before Mr. McCarthy moves on, Deputy Boland and Deputy Farrelly have indicated they want to come in.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)
John Brady: We will endeavour. We will get the NTA in. It is certainly something members have expressed an ongoing desire for. We will work on that. In terms of the ICT, we agreed a course of action from our private session earlier so we will touch on that when we deal with the correspondence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)
John Brady: We can do that and try to get an update. Mr. McCarthy mentioned a continued vacant site levy of €315,000 from the previous-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)
John Brady: We might in the correspondence to them get an overall figure for however many years, and how much that levy was for each of those years as well.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)
John Brady: We will do that. Is that agreed by members? Agreed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)
John Brady: Another ICT issue there. We will return to that in correspondence. Is that it, Mr. McCarthy?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)
John Brady: I am not sure whether Deputy Connolly was here for the private session when we touched on-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)
John Brady: It is agreed that we are going to write to each Department and try to get an inventory of all of the ICT projects, both current and in the past, in terms of overrun and overspend. It seems that in every project that is being implemented, there is an overrun. I listed off a number of them earlier-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)
John Brady: We will touch on that in correspondence just to agree a course of action. I hear and agree with the Deputy. Unless there are any other issues, can we agree to note the listing of accounts and financial statements? Is that agreed? Agreed. The listing of accounts and financial statements will be published as part of our minutes. We will move on to correspondence. We will now consider...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)
John Brady: I hear what the Deputy is saying. Is it agreed that we write to the Department seeking further information? Agreed. No. R0213 is correspondence from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage providing a response to matters raised at our meeting of 19 June 2025. Similar concerns were raised by other members and by me regarding the ICT system for the Residential Tenancies...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)
John Brady: We certainly can write to the OGP to try to get a note on all the issues the Deputy raised.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)
John Brady: We move to No. R0214, correspondence from SOLAS in response to the committee's queries regarding property purchases. It was agreed to note and publish that correspondence. No. R0215 is from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage in response to matters raised at our meeting of 19 June. It was agreed to note and publish that correspondence. Next is No. R0217 from HIQA...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)
John Brady: It was agreed that we will write to the Department seeking further information in this regard. No. R0220 from the Department of Education and Youth provides an update on Whitehall College of Further Education. It was agreed to note and publish that correspondence. No. R0221 from the Department of the Taoiseach relates to the delaying of the 2024 financial accounts of the National...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)
John Brady: No problem. The committee has also agreed to note and publish the following correspondence: No. R0245, correspondence from Munster Technological University in response to the committee's queries on non-compliant procurement; No. R0246 from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in response to the late laying of the 2023 financial statements of four subsidiary companies of Horse...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)
John Brady: Is it agreed that we write to the Department and try to get that information on the issues the Deputy has raised? Agreed. We will move on to No. 7, the work programme. The committee agreed its work programme for 2025 and has scheduled the following meetings. On Thursday, 25 September, we will discuss the 2024 financial statements of the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission. This is an...