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Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: I understand that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: It is a chicken-and-egg situation. If there are not sufficient staff, then people leave the organisation because they are burned out. I ask that the figures be sent on to the committee in relation to the number of extra training places. The issue of the workforce pipeline must be addressed in conjunction with that of retention. If this aspect were got right, then the retention issue would...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. McCarthy for that contribution. I thank all the witnesses.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: Are all those providers who are in receipt of State funding compelled to pay the employment regulation order rate?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: Does Dr. Brooks agree?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: Are they complying?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: Okay. I thank the witnesses from the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and Ms Lawless and Mr. Hurley from the Department of public expenditure and reform for their attendance. I also thank the Comptroller and Auditor General and Mr. John Crean for attending today. Is it agreed that the clerk will seek any follow-up information and carry out any agreed...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: The public business before us this afternoon is as follows: minutes, accounts and financial statements, correspondence, work programme, and any other business. The minutes of our meeting on 11 April 2024 have been circulated. Unless any members wish to raise any matters in relation to the minutes, I take it they are agreed. Are they agreed? Agreed. As usual, they will be published on the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: Do any members wish to raise any matters regarding the accounts or financial statements? No. The figure of €1.4 million, which is related to Horse Racing Ireland, HRI, is for investment in the Curragh Racecourse Limited. It came up last week. On recollection, I think we looked for further information on that. It is due before the committee sometime in the near future.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: That is okay. If we have not done so already, can we ask for a reply from Horse Racing Ireland about that, because that is humiliating? There is now a €9 million loss in total.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: That is only until the end of 2022. We must specifically ask it if there have been further losses in 2023 and what it is doing to address this. The Comptroller and Auditor General mentioned one account that came in after the time that is allowed. Which one was that again?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: Yes, the IPA. We will write to it and we will point this out to it. We will ask it what is being done to correct that late presentation. Can we agree the list of accounts and financial statements? Agreed. Let us move on to correspondence, which is item number three. This is correspondence that was previously agreed. Items that were not flagged for discussion in this meeting will be...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: The letter states: This programme will lead to awards up to NFQ Level 9 for participants. Work to develop and accredit the course materials has begun... Delivery of the programme to staff is due to commence in the 2025 Spring Semester. We will put those additional questions to them. No. 2499B, dated 8 April, is from Ms Oonagh Buckley, Secretary General of the Department of the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: We will request that. Is that agreed? Agreed. We move on to No. 2506B from Ms Oonagh McPhillips, Secretary General of the Department of Justice, dated 8 April 2024. It provides follow-up information requested by the committee at the meeting with the Department on 15 February. It is proposed to note and publish this item of correspondence. Is that agreed? Agreed. Deputy Catherine...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: There were two items that I wanted to address in that correspondence. One is the numbers being processed, which goes back to the point made earlier by Deputy Ó Cathasaigh about misinformation. The figures given for 2023 are that there were 13,272 applicants for international protection but only 8,938 were processed. Obviously, we would like to see all of those processed. However, if...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: My understanding is that the governing authority made the appointment. The assumption is that when the deputy president took over the role, there was a formal procedure where the governing authority had to make a decision. I welcome the fact that has been done and it allows them to be brought in here in the very near future. We have that on the work programme. We move on to the next...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: When you say the budget are you referring-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: One of the issues that came up in that area is that they administer the money for footpaths under active travel. One of the issues that comes up is - wait for it - they insist on consultants being brought in to do a design. I do not know about the other members of the committee. The person who told me that a few years ago was an area engineer. I said to him that he is a qualified...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: One of the other things that is happening with this is that although the area engineer deals internally in the council, working with the councillors and other council staff, an active travel project can happen in their area and they will not have a clue what is going on because it is a completely separate channel. That needs to be dealt with at local authority level. The area engineer needs...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: If they are given an additional engineer, which is the case-----