Results 3,681-3,700 of 20,054 for speaker:Brian Stanley
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023) Brian Stanley: We want a good social mix.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023) Brian Stanley: Yes. Perhaps we could do that in the new year.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023) Brian Stanley: I apologise for interrupting. Many termination of tenancy notices will come into force early in the new year. A number of the people involved will be going into emergency accommodation or will have to seek other private rented accommodation. If that is the case, and the supply is drying up, you then have this added layer of Ukrainian refugees coming out of 90-day temporary international...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023) Brian Stanley: This is an area of concern. It will need to be monitored. I thank Ms Stapleton for the answers and information. I thank the Housing Agency and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform for attending and preparing the documents for today. I also thank the Comptroller and Auditor General and staff for...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)
Brian Stanley: Are there any questions? Is it agreed to note and list the financial statements? Agreed. The accounts and financial statements will be published as part of the minutes. The next item is correspondence. As previously agreed, items that are not flagged for discussion at this meeting will be dealt with in accordance with the proposed actions that have been circulated. Decisions taken by the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)
Brian Stanley: I ask the Deputy to wait until I have gone through the formal procedure first and then we can discuss it. No. R2276 C is correspondence from RTÉ, forwarding correspondence from Ms Geraldine O’Leary, dated 11 December 2023. I propose that we note and publish this item. Is that agreed? Agreed. Deputy Murphy wants to come in.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)
Brian Stanley: I know what the Deputy is saying. I have been reading it as well.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)
Brian Stanley: Just to clarify, the Deputy is referring to the public document.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)
Brian Stanley: We know from the various correspondence from RTÉ that that person acted as meeting secretary in that they took notes and recorded what happened at the meeting, which was subsequently put into an account and the public document we received. I think we all agree that reflected what was in the private notes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)
Brian Stanley: The question is valid. If they were not giving legal advice, why were they there?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)
Brian Stanley: It is one of the major questions around that whole event in RTÉ. What happened in respect of the legal department and its role? What advice was or was not given to the director general or what advice was not sought? In respect of the meeting, it is clear it was not advice. It is one of the issues we will need to address in our report and recommendations. Hopefully, we will do that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)
Brian Stanley: I think I said it here and some members would have said it way back. We said that this will be an account of what happened, what was discussed and what was agreed at the meeting. That is really what it is and it turned out to be that way as well. The public can make their own judgement on that. We will hopefully have the report in the first month we are back. We should be able to do it...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)
Brian Stanley: And that we understand the process for deciding on these packages, how they are approved, who approves them and what information does or does not go to the board. All of this will be important.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)
Brian Stanley: I accept that. The only thing we are aware of is that it most likely happened in phone calls between two people.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)
Brian Stanley: We have that correspondence and I hope we will have the outcome of those two reports very soon in the new year. This concludes our consideration of correspondence and we move on to the work programme. Members have been circulated with the draft work programme and we had a fairly good discussion on it last week. On 18 January 2024, we will meet with the Department of Social Protection to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)
Brian Stanley: I think they are on the list.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)
Brian Stanley: We will do this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)
Brian Stanley: We did not get an opportunity to discuss it at the meeting but I spoke to the officials at the lunch break about this. I spoke to Mr. Graham Doyle and some of the other officials about the ones that are unencumbered. What happens when they are out of the finance period? Do they have to take local authority tenants? What rent can they charge? Can they dispose of them? Who owns them?...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)
Brian Stanley: We now have tenants in some of the homes that were built under the same schemes. They were housed in social housing. There is another way to commercialise them. A private company was brought in to manage them and now sets the rent. The people living in those homes have to apply to the local authority for housing. They must let on. The local authority must pretend they are on the housing...