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Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: The last thing I want to ask about is also a historical site, the courthouse in Portlaoise. Is Mr. O'Connor able to tell me anything about that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: It is not in the national development plan.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: The cash is not there for it. There is still no cash.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: Is Mr. O'Connor saying the family court in Portlaoise Courthouse will be on site-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: The family end of it will be separated out from the main court area.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: The situation at the moment is very unsatisfactory.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: I went in just before the election to collect documents regarding the election from the county registrar. I was looking at people who were there to deal with separation and divorce cases. They are there in the public area and a whole lot of other stuff is going on around them. What Mr. O'Connor is basically saying is that there is a site but there is no money to build.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: That is something political to be moved on.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: According to all and sundry, the election will be next March. That is for definite now. We can stand over that so Ms Morrison need not worry. Some of the Deputies are based in the Department of agriculture's building. Deputy Murphy is over in that Soviet block, is she not?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: With working from home, there may be a possibility of extra space becoming available there. Maybe it is full out. I do not know but that may be an option if offices had to be provided.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: There may be some vacant space there. By the look of it, LH 2000, this place here, is fairly full.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: Once we have it for next March, it will be okay. That concludes the questions. I thank the witnesses from the Office of Public Works, the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform for the work involved in preparing for today's meeting. As always, I thank the Comptroller and Auditor General and his...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: The public business before us this afternoon is minutes of the meetings of 23 May and 30 May, accounts and statements, correspondence, consideration of draft work programme and any other business. I will deal with the minutes first. The minutes of our meetings of 23 May and 30 May 2024 have been circulated. Do any members wish to raise any matters regarding those? Are the minutes agreed?...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: Okay. Regarding No. 9 and the two frauds related to breaches of IT controls, one resulted in the loss of €29,000, while the other resulted in a payment from a partner university being misdirected. The briefing says that the bank details of a supplier account were amended without adherence to the existing internal controls. Who is the supplier being referred to here?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: Yes. It came from the supplier's email address but it refers to that address being hacked. I presume this means that someone go into the supplier's IT system and emails and sent it from that and gave instruction to misdirect it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: Okay, I just wanted to clarify that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: Regarding InterTrade Ireland, did Mr. McCarthy say it was late?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: It is supposed to be done within a six-month period. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: Okay. We can send a letter to InterTrade Ireland pointing this out and asking for the reason for the delay? Is that agreed? Agreed. As usual, the fiscal accounts and financial statements will be published as part of the committee's minutes as normal. We will now move on to correspondence. As previously agreed, the items that are not flagged for discussion at this meeting will be...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: When representatives of Tusla were before us, Ms Kate Duggan indicated that a number of people who were referred to Tusla were no longer children. A certain number of them were older than 18.