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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: We can seek answers to that. I raise the issue of capital works for flood relief. Item No. 18 in the response refers to Mountmellick flood relief scheme including the timeline and additional funding. It did not answer either of the questions on the additional funding for that. We also looked for a detailed report on Midleton and Rathcormac; I think Deputy O'Connor raised that. It is a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Many of those construction projects have four main stages and a number of smaller stages within those four stages. We are being told six years into it that it is approaching the end of stage 1 for a large town at risk of flooding anytime. It is under the Slieve Bloom Mountains and anytime it rains heavily, three hours later the water flows off the Slieve Bloom Mountains down into the middle...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Terrible damage was done in November 2017 in Mountmellick. We should ask the Department what it is doing to try to accelerate these. This is not about pushing environmental regulations to one side. I accept that proper planning, environmental studies and public consultation need to be done. However, there must be a shorter timeline for all this. Deputy Dillon wants to come in. We are...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Who outsourced it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: The local authority can get an environmental report done.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: The people in Mountmellick heard in 2018 that there would be a flood-relief scheme and that money was there for it - €3.4 million I think it was at the time. Six years later there is still no flood-relief scheme. We have read today that it is approaching the end of stage 1. While it is not confirmed in this correspondence, the last figure I heard was that it was now going to be in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Perhaps we could suggest the option of the local authority. There is a line of accountability. The reason I say the local authority is that councillors can keep the pressure on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Let us make that suggestion to the Department officials and see what their response is and whether there are other options. The current situation is not satisfactory.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: The Deputy is right that some good work has been done under the flood relief schemes but we cannot have a situation where it takes five or six years to be approaching the end of stage one. That is ridiculous. Deputy O'Connor, who also raised this, is not here. We will look for a timeline, specifically on the Midleton scheme, which the officials did not give. I do not have much knowledge...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: We will add that to it. The next correspondence is R2323B from Mr. Graham Doyle, Secretary General of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, dated 18 January. It provides a response to questions raised by the committee regarding the national monument on Moore Street. The correspondence was not flagged but I ask members to agree that we write to the Moore Street...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: We put him on the list last week. He was central to what happened.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Those who attended the combo meeting need to be here. I am not sure of the names of some of them. There has been speculation, but it is important that those who were present at that meeting come before us. The meeting was key to what transpired.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: We will ask RTÉ for that. It is important to note the financial calculations, the attendance required and the number of shows intended. From what we have seen from the documentation produced last week by Grant Thornton, the figures did not stack up. Even 35 shows with a full capacity would only move RTÉ near to breaking even.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: It was pure daft.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: That was a small meeting. We will ask for attendees. We want Kevin Bakhurst to come in. We will ask him to identify the relevant people and ask them to attend. Is that okay?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Is that agreed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: On the timeline, we know the situation regarding the extension of our remit. It is a process we have to go through, and we have discussed the extension previously. It is unfortunate. We would love to get witnesses in because we need to finish our report. We have concluded a lot of it but it is being held up because of these two reports. The sooner we can complete our work the better. We...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: If we are granted the extension, we will have powers of compellability. We do not want this dragging on forever and a day but if it seems we will have to conclude our report without having key witnesses here, I would be on for pursuing that by using our powers of compellability. We should compel people, whether they are still working for RTÉ or not, to come before us. We should pursue...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: We will request a business case, a list of attendees and an unredacted version of the Grant Thornton report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: I thank the Deputy.