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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2023)

Brian Stanley: We could ask for a senior person from the Department to attend.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2023)

Brian Stanley: I suggest that we list, as a specific item on the agenda, the timelines for the processing and completion of complaints to GSOC. I suggest that we specifically include that as one item. Would that be helpful? The Department official in attendance would need to be able to address the resourcing of GSOC as well. Is that okay? Yes. We have a long list of issues to debate in the new year....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2023)

Brian Stanley: I wish to inform members that the IHRB awaits a Mazars report on the matter that was raised.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (7 Dec 2023)

Brian Stanley: 105. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the SCOPE investigation into RTÉ; how many cases have concluded; and what the verdicts were. [54002/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (7 Dec 2023)

Brian Stanley: 145. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she thinks it is acceptable that the SCOPE investigation will take fifteen years to complete; and what steps she is taking to speed it up. [54003/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition (6 Dec 2023)

Brian Stanley: 41. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide a breakdown of the different sectors that the €169 million Just Transition Fund will be targeted towards; and if there will be a specific funding stream for assisting job creation in private companies. [54008/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (5 Dec 2023)

Brian Stanley: 159. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide figures, in tabular form, for the average waiting times currently being experienced for driving tests at the test centres in Birr, Portlaoise and Tullamore. [53182/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (5 Dec 2023)

Brian Stanley: 160. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide figures for the longest waiting time currently being experienced for driving tests at the test centres in Birr, Portlaoise and Tullamore, respectively. [53183/23]

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Finance Accounts 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 1 – Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2022
Chapter 2 – Reporting Ireland’s EU Transactions
Chapter 24 – Performance of the Ireland Apple Escrow Fund
Chapter 25 – Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 Nov 2023)

Brian Stanley: We have received apologies from Deputies Colm Burke and Alan Dillon, who are unavoidably absent. The witnesses are very welcome. I 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 practice of the Houses as regards reference witnesses may make to other...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Finance Accounts 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 1 – Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2022
Chapter 2 – Reporting Ireland’s EU Transactions
Chapter 24 – Performance of the Ireland Apple Escrow Fund
Chapter 25 – Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 Nov 2023)

Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. McCarthy. I invite Mr. Hogan to make his opening statement. It is quite long, so he might wish to summarise parts of it, given that it has been circulated to members.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Finance Accounts 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 1 – Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2022
Chapter 2 – Reporting Ireland’s EU Transactions
Chapter 24 – Performance of the Ireland Apple Escrow Fund
Chapter 25 – Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 Nov 2023)

Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. Hogan.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Finance Accounts 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 1 – Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2022
Chapter 2 – Reporting Ireland’s EU Transactions
Chapter 24 – Performance of the Ireland Apple Escrow Fund
Chapter 25 – Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 Nov 2023)

Brian Stanley: The key issue is the doubling of interest rates. We heard this was a policy matter at the time. We felt the impression was given there would be some level of regulation of vulture funds and there would not be runaway interest rates. The problem with these Ulster Bank ones is that with the previous ones every Deputy and anyone around heard that people’s interest rates doubled...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Finance Accounts 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 1 – Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2022
Chapter 2 – Reporting Ireland’s EU Transactions
Chapter 24 – Performance of the Ireland Apple Escrow Fund
Chapter 25 – Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 Nov 2023)

Brian Stanley: We have somebody here from the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Finance Accounts 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 1 – Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2022
Chapter 2 – Reporting Ireland’s EU Transactions
Chapter 24 – Performance of the Ireland Apple Escrow Fund
Chapter 25 – Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 Nov 2023)

Brian Stanley: Mr. John McCarthy is indicating that he wants to come in.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Finance Accounts 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 1 – Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2022
Chapter 2 – Reporting Ireland’s EU Transactions
Chapter 24 – Performance of the Ireland Apple Escrow Fund
Chapter 25 – Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 Nov 2023)

Brian Stanley: There will be a second round so the Deputy can pop back in if he has to go to another committee meeting.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Finance Accounts 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 1 – Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2022
Chapter 2 – Reporting Ireland’s EU Transactions
Chapter 24 – Performance of the Ireland Apple Escrow Fund
Chapter 25 – Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 Nov 2023)

Brian Stanley: Before I ask Mr. Hogan to answer those questions, I wish to acknowledge the delegation from the Committee for Financial and Budgetary Affairs of Vietnam’s National Assembly in the Public Gallery. There are a number of politicians and public servants present, a bit like our own mixture this morning. I welcome them to the Committee of Public Accounts. We have the Department of Finance...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Finance Accounts 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 1 – Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2022
Chapter 2 – Reporting Ireland’s EU Transactions
Chapter 24 – Performance of the Ireland Apple Escrow Fund
Chapter 25 – Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 Nov 2023)

Brian Stanley: A figure for total commitments was mentioned. According to my notes, 30 PPP schemes were fully operational at the end of 2022, six were at development stage and future commitments totalled €6.3 billion. I have in front of me a pie chart setting out figures for the OPW, housing, health, the courts, education and transport, with the final two being the largest, at €1.7 billion...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Finance Accounts 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 1 – Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2022
Chapter 2 – Reporting Ireland’s EU Transactions
Chapter 24 – Performance of the Ireland Apple Escrow Fund
Chapter 25 – Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 Nov 2023)

Brian Stanley: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Finance Accounts 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 1 – Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2022
Chapter 2 – Reporting Ireland’s EU Transactions
Chapter 24 – Performance of the Ireland Apple Escrow Fund
Chapter 25 – Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 Nov 2023)

Brian Stanley: There will be an average of €335 million in ongoing costs up to 2035. The expectation is that they will taper off after then. How steep will that fall be? What is the projected reduction?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Finance Accounts 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 1 – Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2022
Chapter 2 – Reporting Ireland’s EU Transactions
Chapter 24 – Performance of the Ireland Apple Escrow Fund
Chapter 25 – Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 Nov 2023)

Brian Stanley: Is there anyone present who deals with this area?