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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: I think there are two issues with that. First, when the legal people from RTÉ were before the committee, they said they had to retain a level of independence because they were governed by the rules of the Law Society and the Bar Council. The other question the Deputy raises is legitimate. I do not know the full extent of the resources RTÉ has in the legal office - whether it is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: That would be workload, speciality and getting an outside view.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: They should be doing that from here on out. The criteria around exit packages or goodbye money should be clear, the same as it should be for redundancies. If that were clear and were abided by, you would not be getting into all of this stuff relating to legalities, legal advice, public accounts committee hearings and investigations of one kind or another. It highlights one of the things...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: What about deviating from the criteria? Was that covered in the report?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: I refer to deviating from criteria around exit packages. In a lot of cases there is deviation from the criteria. Should there be a clear set of criteria in that regard?
- 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?