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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Legislative Programme (5 Oct 2023)

Brian Stanley: 155. To ask the Minister for Finance when it can be expected to see the Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022 completed and enacted. [42608/23]

School Transport 2023-2024: Statements (3 Oct 2023)

Brian Stanley: There is a serious issue with the school transport system due to a lack of local knowledge and co-ordination by those people who are charged with running it. This year we have witnessed chaos in several areas of Laois and Offaly regarding the operation of the scheme. I have seen this problem reoccur every year and we need a solution to be put in place, which is what I want to focus on. ...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fuel Prices (3 Oct 2023)

Brian Stanley: 159. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the average price, per barrel of oil, that the State is paying. [42830/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (3 Oct 2023)

Brian Stanley: 380. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated number of approved housing bodies, AHBs, that are understood to be continuing to operate and collect rents, but are not registered with the Approved Housing Body Regulatory Authority; to set out, in tabular form, a list of AHBs that have their entire housing stock 'out-of-mortgage' (i.e., where the mortgage...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (3 Oct 2023)

Brian Stanley: 381. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, based on data collected as part of the Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority's monitoring survey conducted earlier in 2023 for its sectoral analysis 2021-2022, he will set out information (details supplied) in tabular form. [42844/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (3 Oct 2023)

Brian Stanley: 575. To ask the Minister for Health to include the drug ketamine, used for cerebral palsy patients, in the long-term illness scheme. [42197/23]

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Brian Stanley: We have apologies from Deputies Ó Cathasaigh and Verona Murphy, who are engaged in other parliamentary duties. All in attendance are welcome and I remind them to ensure mobile phones are switched off or on silent. I will explain some limitations to parliamentary privilege and the practice of the Houses as regards reference witnesses may make to other persons in evidence. The...

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. McCarthy. It was outlined in the documentation that Mr. McDonagh has five minutes. I know he has quite a long statement but I ask him to try to keep within the time. Perhaps he could try to summarise it. The submission is available to members.

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Brian Stanley: I will let the Deputy back in for a second round. He may make a very brief point.

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Brian Stanley: What county did this happen in?

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Brian Stanley: It sounds like somewhere in the wild west. All that is missing is the hats, the horses, the guns and the sheriff. It is an absolutely incredible story. The brother rocks in with the bag of money on the side of the horse and buys this for €255,000 or €260,000. It is an absolutely incredible. This happened in County Donegal in this State. What we are hearing this morning is...

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Brian Stanley: Deputy Catherine Murphy will have a second round.

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Brian Stanley: I will just intervene for a second. I accept that it was not on the notice of invitation, but it is a significant project in the centre of the capital city. If there are specific questions that Mr. McDonagh does not have the answers to, I want to allow the committee members to ask questions and perhaps he could come back within a week or so, or maybe by the end of this meeting, with some...

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Brian Stanley: I just want to clarify something, Mr. McDonagh. I have been following the Moore Street issue somewhat for the past ten or 15 years. I want to clarify that part of the terrace is now in the ownership of the Department.

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Brian Stanley: I do not expect you to go into fine detail of it or be able to rattle it off. Is it that section that people are concerned about, that group of houses where the provisional government had its last stand?

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Brian Stanley: No one campaigned to buy the whole terrace.

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Brian Stanley: It was a group of five or six houses.

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Brian Stanley: We will resume after a short break, and Deputy McAuliffe will be first. We will suspend for ten minutes.

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Brian Stanley: The next speaker is Deputy Paul McAuliffe.

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Brian Stanley: It is helpful to know that information. I will bring in the Comptroller and Auditor General for a moment.