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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: If you want to put that question you have-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: The reply, on page 18, has a piece on housing estates where the developer provided infrastructure for water and wastewater and the difficulties in getting those taken in charge. It is disappointing because it seems to go around in circles. Irish Water says it will not take them in charge and it seems to fall back on the local authority. The only thing is that it does bring clarity to the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: That is an extraordinary amount. There is one in Laois, that I know of.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: The stand-alone ones probably never will be taken in charge because they are not connected. The Limekiln in Clogh, for example, has a sewerage system.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: It is one of these environmentally friendly treatment systems. It was requested and agreed they would do that during the Celtic tiger period. It is a small development. Irish Water's argument and the Department's case seem to be that it is not connected to the mains and is a stand-alone facility in a small rural village. They are saying the local authorities gave the planning permission....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: It will bring up to scratch certain ones. There is a difference. There is one around the corner from me that needs to be brought up to scratch but that is connected. The difference is the pumping station in that estate is connected to the public sewer. There are two different scenarios. The onus is on the Department and local authorities to address those ones. They cannot use that as an...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: This is a big issue across the 31 local authorities. The lesson has been learned by some local authorities - hopefully by them all - that the bonds in the Celtic tiger period lodged by the developer as surety for works not completed, works not completed properly or deficient works should have been adequate to meet the costs. In many cases, that bond was not acceptable. It was simply a...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: They are another category, though.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: There was a number like that but it is a separate category.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: In a big urban area like Cork, there are probably more. There are a few of them knocking around in the part of the world I am familiar with.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: We will look for the information requested.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: Noted.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: Obviously, regarding the matters that are under direct investigation, we would not go there.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: They were before the committee on 14 December. We are moving on to the work programme. Members have been circulated with a draft work programme discussion document and it is being displayed on their screens now. On 29 February we meet with Tusla in relation to financial statements for 2022. Sláintecare healthy communities parenting programmes have been flagged as an area of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Livestock Issues (22 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: 66. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department can provide grant aid or any other assistance to Mountrath livestock mart to reopen for business. [3927/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Livestock Issues (20 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: 460. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department would provide support for livestock marts in situations where they need grant assistance to refurbish and upgrade facilities. [7833/24]

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: Apologies have been received from Deputy Verona Murphy, Deputy Catherine Murphy, who may have to leave early, and Deputy Munster. I welcome everyone and remind all those in attendance to ensure their mobile phones are on silent mode or switched off. Before we start, I wish to explain some limitations to parliamentary privilege and the practices of the Houses as regards reference witnesses...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. McCarthy. I now invite Ms McPhillips to deliver her opening statement.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Deputy.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: They have done well. I also wish to ask Ms McPhillips about the new community safety partnerships. Will they impinge on the joint police committees or will they be replacing them?