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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?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: That concludes discussion of the work programme. There are two hearings between now and Easter. We have an early Easter. The clerk has to try and line up bodies with their availability. Are members happy with the general order that has been set out?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: I propose that the engagement with the NTA be bumped up the list a bit.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: It could be a month or two before it does.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: The meeting is conditional on getting them. I generally try to work at least six weeks ahead in order that the secretariat can start lining up the business.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: We will ask for that meeting to take place as early as possible after Easter. We have now lined up our business until 18 April. We will all be getting busy at that stage with the local elections. I do not know how all that worked when TDs were running for council seats.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: I cannot see how it worked. The clerk has indicated that if members have any other proposals for the list, they should send her an email. The final item today is any other business. Is there any issue members wish to raise publicly?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: I did not have a chance to look at it yet.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: This may impact a little on the next part of our deliberations today.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: I do not think it went to the full board.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: It is a skimpy enough business case. I have not had a chance to read it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: Yes, the combo meeting. We will now move into private session. At our next meeting, we will engage with Inland Fisheries Ireland.

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (29 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: 31. To ask the Minister for Health the expected final cost of the National Children's Hospital; and whether it will meet the deadline for completion. [8119/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (29 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: 50. To ask the Minister for Health the total spend on agency staff in the HSE in 2022 and 2023 in CHO8. [8118/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: I will raise the issue of places in primary schools for children with autism. Parents in a number of areas of County Laois have raised it with me. In several areas of the county, parents cannot get their children a place for next September in an autism spectrum disorder, ASD, unit. One parent tells me that she has applied to 19 schools with no success and is at her wits' end. A number of...