Results 4,021-4,040 of 20,054 for speaker:Brian Stanley
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 5: Vote Accounting and Budget Management (16 Nov 2023) Brian Stanley: Give me one significant one.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 5: Vote Accounting and Budget Management (16 Nov 2023) Brian Stanley: On the MetroLink, the cost of the preparatory work has been discussed by the committee a number of times. It is in excess of €100 million, as I recall. Maybe the Comptroller and Auditor General can recall the spend on the MetroLink to date.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 5: Vote Accounting and Budget Management (16 Nov 2023) Brian Stanley: I think it is €120 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 5: Vote Accounting and Budget Management (16 Nov 2023) Brian Stanley: The Department had concerns. To the public or ourselves here, it is a huge sum to spend without, to put it simply, a shovel being stuck in the ground. Will there be tens of billions of euro more spent before we actually see something happening? There might be a policy position to not even go ahead with it. Is there concern around that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 5: Vote Accounting and Budget Management (16 Nov 2023) Brian Stanley: Does Mr. Moloney agree with spending sums like that, €120 or €130 million, without anything happening?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 5: Vote Accounting and Budget Management (16 Nov 2023) Brian Stanley: I thank the witnesses, the Department and its staff for their work in preparing for today's meeting. I know it is a significant amount of work. I also thank the Comptroller and Auditor General's office for attending and assisting the committee today. Is it agreed that the clerk to the committee will seek any follow-up information and carry out any agreed actions arising from today's...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2023)
Brian Stanley: The agenda for this section of the meeting is as follows: minutes; account and financial statements; correspondence; work programme; and any other business. The first business is the minutes of the meetings of 9 and 14 November 2023, which have been circulated to members. Do any members wish to raise any matters in relation to the minutes? No. Are the minutes for both meetings agreed?...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2023)
Brian Stanley: As the Department with responsibility for the National Training Fund will be before the committee next week, I ask the Comptroller and Auditor General to hold back on addressing that issue. If any members wish to contribute, they should feel free to do so.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2023)
Brian Stanley: The accounts and statements are noted and agreed. As usual, the list of accounts and financial statements submitted will be published as part of our minutes. The next business is correspondence. As previously agreed, items that were not flagged for discussion for this meeting will continue to be dealt with in accordance with the proposed actions that have been circulated. Decisions...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2023)
Brian Stanley: Nothing was left out and that is a positive move in respect of transparency and openness from RTÉ's point of view. We acknowledge that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2023)
Brian Stanley: I concur. That is a question we have. The note highlights a number of issues for the legal office in RTÉ with the practices that were outlined at the meeting. It underlines the concerns of this committee and will help to inform. It is important we have it. While it has been stated publicly many times that it was legally privileged and came under solicitor-client confidentiality,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2023)
Brian Stanley: What is a pop-up pool?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2023)
Brian Stanley: What is the pool like? Is it collapsible?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2023)
Brian Stanley: County Laois, with a population of more than 90,000, has two public pools.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2023)
Brian Stanley: Is the point the Deputy made being fed into the review? You would hope so.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2023)
Brian Stanley: Is there anything the committee should do at this point?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2023)
Brian Stanley: I suggest that the committee, if it has not already been done, send a letter to the Secretary General of the Department regarding the point raised that the overall population has to be a factor-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2023)
Brian Stanley: -----or a key factor in determining funding. The example of County Kildare could be given.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2023)
Brian Stanley: As the review is drawing to a conclusion, it would be worth bringing to the Department's attention that the committee is suggesting that population has to be a central criterion.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2023)
Brian Stanley: We will take that as agreed. Next is 2214B from Mr. Ray Mitchell, assistant national director of the HSE, dated 7 November. It provides further information requested by the committee during the meeting with the HSE on 5 October. It is proposed that we note and publish this correspondence, apart from attachments 3, 6 and 5. Is that agreed? Agreed. Deputy Catherine Murphy and I have...