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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2023)
Brian Stanley: What about uimhir a seacht?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2023)
Brian Stanley: What has happened in the past. Does it generally go into general Government funding?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2023)
Brian Stanley: It is not earmarked for any particular community fund or such thing.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2023)
Brian Stanley: Can we agree and note the listing of accounts and financial statements? Agreed. As usual, the accounts and financial statements will be published as part of the committee's minutes. I will move on to the third item on our agenda, which is correspondence. The previously agreed items that were not flagged for discussion at this meeting will be dealt with in accordance with the proposed...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2023)
Brian Stanley: We have had complaints over the weekend from gardaí and their representative bodies saying that investigations about complaints lodged with GSOC about individual gardaí can take years. They outline the matter in stark terms. Judge Rory MacCabe stated that a further issue was that of resourcing. He stated: "The committee will – at the risk of my rehearsing the broken record...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2023)
Brian Stanley: Unfortunately. Bringing GSOC before the committee at the same time as the Department would be useful. There may be a case for inviting An Garda Síochána. Perhaps An Garda Síochána and GSOC could appear on one day. That would be useful.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2023)
Brian Stanley: Or under investigation for years.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2023)
Brian Stanley: I propose adding a discussion with either the Department or the Garda to our work programme for the date we have. We need to have the Garda Accounting Officer and GSOC representatives in on the same day.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2023)
Brian Stanley: That is correct. It is Commissioner Drew Harris.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2023)
Brian Stanley: There were five on secondment.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2023)
Brian Stanley: In the period the Deputy is referring to, from 2017 to 2020, there were five on secondment. We can add it to the work programme.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2023)
Brian Stanley: And write to express our concern. There is a genuine issue. Also, it is a question of deficiency in respect of the time taken to carry out investigations. If what the Garda Representative Association is saying is true, some of the investigations are ridiculous.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2023)
Brian Stanley: I thank the Deputy for that. We will move on to category C, correspondence from and related to private individuals, and any other correspondence. No. R2243 C, dated 20 November 2023, is from Deputy Imelda Munster, a member of the Public Accounts Committee. She has forwarded correspondence from an individual concerning Greyhound Racing Ireland and the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund. In our...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2023)
Brian Stanley: Am I correct in saying that, during the financial crash, the fund was raided for something like €8 billion or €9 billion?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2023)
Brian Stanley: Was €8 billion or €9 billion taken out of it for shoring up?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2023)
Brian Stanley: I am sorry. That was the one.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2023)
Brian Stanley: Regarding the figure for the effect on overall borrowing, you would have to examine the level of borrowing in 2007 and 2008, and then look at it----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2023)
Brian Stanley: -----but you could be looking at another €60 billion or €80 billion. I do not know, but something like that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2023)
Brian Stanley: From this morning anyway - the Deputy might have missed the last piece as she had to go to another committee - €28 per worker per week is the cost of servicing it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2023)
Brian Stanley: That is according to John McCarthy this morning. That is not insignificant.