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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: SEAI is coming before us so that is why we decided to bring that in.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: Absolutely-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: That is right - back in June. It was the Irish Horse Racing Regulatory Board
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: For the new year. What was mentioned earlier regarding the Comptroller and Auditor General's annual report is-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: If the Deputy wants to include that issue for the HSE or the Department of Health-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: The chief executive officer of the HSE recently said these organisations are essential. The health service could not function without them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: Section 38 and section 39 organisations are crucial. The absence of a service-level agreement in all and every case is a gap, particularly if an organisation is getting significant funding.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: Absolutely.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: I suggest to the Deputy that we could raise that issue when representatives from the Department of Health appear before us.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: We could raise the issue of service-level agreements with section 38 and section 39 organisations.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: Is the work programme agreed? Agreed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: That completes our consideration of the work programme. The last item is any other business. Do any members wish to raise any other matter?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: We do not know.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: We could request information from the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform and ask its estimate. Is the Deputy happy with that? I know he has raised this issue previously but sometimes there are legitimate reasons for a State body to go down the legal route.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: We will request a note from the Chief State Solicitor's Office and the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform. Is that agreed? Agreed. There is no other item of business. We do not have anything to discuss in private session. Unless members have anything else to discuss I will adjourn the meeting until next Thursday, when we will engage with the...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: 48. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to insist that county-based co-ordinators are put in place for school transport to avoid the problems that arise each year with the scheme. [42410/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (17 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: 341. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans through further resources to aid Dublin City Council in dealing with its significant backlog in conveyancing works (details supplied). [45277/23]
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: I welcome the witnesses. I remind all those in attendance to make sure their mobile phones are switched off or on silent mode. Before we start, I wish to explain some limitations to parliamentary privilege and the practice of the Houses as regards references witnesses may make to other persons in their evidence. The evidence of witnesses physically present or who give evidence from within...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: Before we move on to committee questions, we acknowledge we received a lot of documentation from Mr. Bakhurst. Some changes are taking place and that is welcome. One important piece of documentation we have not received is the note from the meeting of 7 May 2020. We received a response on that. The first response we got verbally from Ms Paula Mullooly at a previous meeting was that it was...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: In terms of the legal question, confidentiality only binds the solicitor. The client is in a position to waive that. We have established that about legal privilege. You are saying it is legal advice and that it is covered under client confidentiality. The client is in a position to waive that client confidentiality. There are conflicting versions of what went on. RTÉ claimed that...