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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: -----and governance, and the connections between these. Agency costs is one that we could put in again, according to what was said the last day Mr. McCarthy was in. There is also the question of the regional structures trying to move to a public health system in the context of Sláintecare. Are there are any other matters that members want to include on the work programme?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: We have a response in correspondence. It is there today.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: It is No. 2171. There is a letter there from Mr. Donal Hamilton of McCann FitzGerald in response to a request for a progress update on the ongoing review of the RTÉ's voluntary exit programmes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: It is due for completion by the end of October. That is what it is saying in that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: That would be 7 May 2020?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: Might we get it for Christmas?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: Just one second, please. I call Deputy Burke.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: No. We have just gone through the request for it. There is a request drafted and it is ready to go.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: We made slight alterations to it today. It is this document here. It is a request that the Committee on Parliamentary Privileges and Oversight, CPPO extends its powers to request to compel that. It does not have to go to the Dáil. It is just the CPPO, and hopefully that will be forthcoming. When we will have it, I do not know. We will keep one slot but bear in mind the six weeks'...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: There are two documents. One relates to McCann FitzGerald, and that correspondence should be straightforward. The note and record of the meeting of 7 May 2020 should also be straightforward. We could always use an afternoon session, if we have to, to deal with that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: Yes, that is it. We may not even require a meeting, which would be a better situation. We also have the option of using the afternoons. The Department of Health is one with regard to some of those matters mentioned. Do members have any other ones they want to put in? I do not recall us having the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission in. Then there is the Irish Human Rights...
- 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.