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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: Many of the issues have been well flagged. There are a number of major issues arising in the report on "Toy Show The Musical", some of them not unexpected. They are a mirror of some of the other issues we covered throughout the year regarding governance, accountability, the lack of information flow, board accountability and accountability to the board. In this case there are problems with...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: There is not much else to be said on this. People will read the report with interest, I am sure, over the next day or two. It will be bedtime reading. The next category is category C, correspondence from and related to private individuals and any other correspondence.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: We are moving onto that now. There is a typo in the speaking note. It is No. R2283 from Ms Orla Twomey, chief executive of the Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland, dated 10 January 2024. It provides the decision of the complaints committee in relation to a complaint from this committee about the national lottery. It arose from our hearing with the national lottery. After...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: It is very important. It is about making the corrections. No. R2317 C is from an individual and is dated 14 January 2024. It seeks an update on matters arising from the committee's meeting with Inland Fisheries Ireland on 6 July 2023. I propose that we inform the correspondent that the committee will meet with the IFI on 7 March to examine the matters raised and any other issues arising...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: It is about the facility in Leixlip.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: Previous correspondence indicates that on 15 June it was agreed to write to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to seek information on what due diligence they are undertaking on potential providers of accommodation. At that meeting on 21 September it was agreed to note and publish the Department's response. That response was R2079. It is there somewhere....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: The residents association was raising it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: Ryevale Lawns residents association. Okay. Thank you for that. Moving on to the work programme, members have been circulated with a draft work programme which is up on your screens now. On 1 February we are meeting with the Department of Health in respect of----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: Are you okay? Have you got it on your screens?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: Can you share screens? Okay. On 1 February we are meeting with the Department of Health on its 2022 appropriation accounts, Vote 38, chapter 18 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's annual report. Representatives of the HSE have also been invited to attend. On 8 February we meet with the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission on its 2022 financial statements. The resourcing...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: Would you expect that they would be laid before the Houses?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: Okay. That takes us up to the March recess. After that, we will meet An Garda Síochána in respect of their 2022 appropriation account, Vote 20, An Garda Síochána. I ask that members flag areas of interest for any of those meetings. If members have anything else they want to add to the work programme, they might indicate.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: I cannot see why not.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: It is 7 March. That concludes consideration of the work programme. Is there any other business in the public session that members wish to raise? Deputy O'Connor raised an issue in relation to correspondence item No. R2272B which we considered here last week. Do you want to address that?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: Are you happy enough for us to correspond with it and come back with a statement that can be read into the record?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: We will request that. We will now go into private session briefly before adjourning until 9.30 a.m. next Thursday, 1 February, when we engage with the Department of Health.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Illegal Dumping (25 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: 101. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the relevant section of the Circular Economy Bill will be enacted to allow local authorities to use CCTV camera to stop illegal dumping of waste. [2899/24]

Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: The fact is that the housing situation continues to get worse under the Government's watch. The fact is that rents are at an all-time high and rising. The Government has missed its social and affordable housing targets for three years in a row. It is a fact that in County Laois new rents have increased by 11.4% in 12 months. In fact, it is almost impossible to enter the private rental...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: I wish to raise the issue of driver test waiting times. I got figures recently in response to a parliamentary question and there is a waiting time of 24 weeks in the Birr test centre, 25 weeks in Portlaoise and 43 weeks in Kilkenny city. This is according to the figures I got. It is a scandalous delay. I have taken up this matter before with the Minister. It is particularly affecting...