Results 341-360 of 18,373 for speaker:Brian Stanley

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: It was.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: We are nearly four years in but the roll-out does not seem to have gathered pace. While the scheme has passed nearly 250,000 premises, it is not showing signs of greater take-up by those already-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: Most homes are now serviced by it and all businesses nearly will be but the uptake is 32%.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: I appreciate the urbanites are different but I know what the Deputy means.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: It seems like that. We will put the matter on our wish list. We will try to organise a hearing with them. It will have to be the far side of the summer because our schedule is full until then. No. R2575B is correspondence from Catherine Martin, the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, dated 30 April 2024, which provides an update to the committee regarding...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: It was proposed to amend the Broadcasting Act.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: Separately, and to bring it under the remit, an amendment to the Broadcasting Act is required..

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: The key issue is that the 116 findings from the three reports are covered. Three and four of them fit under some of the 21 recommendations made by this committee. There is the extra cash amounting to more than €670,000, which Deputy Murphy was correct about, but it is time to move on. I want to flag that RTÉ is due to report to us by June with an update on its progress with...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: Given that it looks like there will be a new funding model, and the issue of public confidence and what has transpired in the past year, as the Comptroller and Auditor General said it is not for his office but for the Oireachtas to get the legislation through quickly to bring it under the remit of the Comptroller and Auditor General to try to restore public confidence. It is not a can that...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: Yes, and they probably will for a while but it is still €13 million behind 2022.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: We will now move on to the work programme, which has been circulated. A draft work programme has been out for discussion and the document is displayed on screen now. Next week, 16 May 2024, we meet with the Department of Education in relation to Vote 26. The following areas of interest have been flagged: running costs and demand management for schools, school building programmes, school...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: Is this likely to happen?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: Representatives of the Department of Health have been invited to attend. I propose that we also invite representatives of the HSE to attend. Is that agreed? Agreed. On 13 June we will engage with the Office of Public Works in relation to Vote 13 – Office of Public Works. The following areas of interest have been flagged: the proposed national children's science museum project,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: My understanding is, and I am open to correction on this and perhaps the Comptroller and Auditor General will be able to assist us with it, that the budget for it goes through the OPW. I am not sure whether it goes through the Department. Perhaps it does. Perhaps the money goes through that channel. I am not sure.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: I am not sure about it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: Yes it is.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: Yes we will clarify that and if it is the case the Department is responsible we will invite senior officials.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: Members will be happy to hear the Road Safety Authority has confirmed it availability to attend a meeting on 27 June 2024 in relation to the 2022 financial statements. The committee has agreed to invite representatives of the Department of Transport to this meeting. The following areas of interest have been flagged: road safety statistics and performance metrics, and outcomes from...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: And issuing driving licences.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: We will meet Waterways Ireland on 4 July to discuss its 2022 financial statements. If there are specific issues, which there may be, members should please forward details of them to the secretariat. On 11 July, we will meet the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine to discuss Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine and Chapter 10 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report...