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

Brian Stanley: It is messy.

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

Brian Stanley: What I would suggest to the Deputy, knowing it is not perfect and that she is anxious about these issues, which are important, is that the full slot available on 29 February could be used. It is a leap year, so we could use the extra day God has given us for Tusla, if available. We can check availability for that date, if not 7 March. Obviously, the sooner we can have the officials in, the...

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

Brian Stanley: Are the rest of the members happy enough with that?

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

Brian Stanley: Yes. If the officials are not available then, we will go with 7 March. The Department of Justice has confirmed availability to attend a meeting on 15 February concerning the 2022 appropriation accounts for Vote 21 - Prisons, and Vote 24 - Justice. Is that agreed? It is proposed we meet officials from the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Sport Ireland,...

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

Brian Stanley: Yes. The opportunity is to include items on the work programme. If Tusla officials are available, that will complete the programme for the next six weeks.

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

Brian Stanley: Representatives from An Garda Síochána are to be in. There is slot on 7 March, and then there is to be a break for a week. On 21 March, we will hear from An Garda Síochána. There is possibly a slot on 29 February or 7 March, depending on which day the Tusla officials are in. I hope Tusla will take the slot on 29 February. Deputy Dillon wanted to comment.

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

Brian Stanley: On the International Protection Office, I understand that the accommodation part, if that is what the Deputy is talking about, is dealt with through the Department of integration. Was the Deputy talking specifically about the IPO?

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

Brian Stanley: Okay, and Inland Fisheries Ireland.

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

Brian Stanley: I ask the Comptroller and Auditor General to talk about Inland Fisheries Ireland’s accounts for 2022.

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

Brian Stanley: That would take us as far as 7 March. If the slots on 29 February and 7 March are filled, that will leave us full up to the end of March. The next available slot would be on 28 March, the one just before Easter. There are really three slots vacant between now and Easter, possibly with Tusla, Inland Fisheries Ireland and the IPO, which has been mentioned. On the IPO and the provision of...

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

Brian Stanley: The Day report; that is the one. I am referring to the situation regarding that, the expenditure and how value for money is being achieved. Sometimes people come to us to say they have accommodation that the Department is not taking. There may be good reasons for that. There are a considerable number of issues being raised over this. It concerns the Department of integration. I suggest...

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

Brian Stanley: Maybe we will see when the Department officials are available on the issue of accommodation. Regarding the meeting with IPO officials, I suggest we bring in officials from the Department of Justice on the same day. Deputy Dillon mentioned the IPO but I suggest we add to the agenda a discussion on the efficiency of the assessment of applicants – it is sometimes referred to as...

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

Brian Stanley: It is to get accurate information on all that.

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

Brian Stanley: The accommodation.

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

Brian Stanley: Accommodation is a really big issue, for obvious reasons. The last item on the public agenda today is any other business. Do members wish to raise any other matter? Since they do not, we will move into private session briefly before adjourning until 9.30 a.m. on Thursday, 25 January 2024, when we will engage with the Office of the Revenue Commissioners.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (17 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: Two of them, as I understand it, do not have enough physical space already but the rest of them all require buildings.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (17 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to do that. The Minister of State might just give me a response on where each one of those schools is at. That would be really helpful.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (17 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the opportunity to raise this very important issue with the Minister of State. As he knows, autism spectrum disorder units are very important. It is important children have access to them. We have a chronic shortage of ASD units at second level in all of County Laois. Good work has been done in existing ASD units at primary level and in some second level colleges in the country...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (17 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I have followed what he said here very carefully. I welcome the fact there is some forward planning happening under the National Council for Special Education. That is really important. On this forward planning, the Minister of State said works are under way for the 2024-2025 school year and there are 389 new special classes. In Laois, I have...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Carcase Disposal (17 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: 1202. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that are being taken by his Department to address the current difficulties and costs for knackeries trying to get outlets to dispose of animal remains. [56762/23]