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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funding (22 Jun 2023) Brian Stanley: I wanted to clear up that matter before this part of the meeting concluded. The clerk will seek any other follow-up information and carry out any agreed actions arising from the meeting. Is that agreed? Agreed. It is proposed to publish the opening statements and briefings provided to the committee. Is that agreed? Agreed. I thank everybody for attending and for the information they...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: The first item is the minutes of the meeting of 15 June, which have been circulated to members. Do members wish to raise any matters relating to the minutes? Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. As usual, the minutes will be published on the committee web page. Six sets of accounts and financial statements were laid before the Houses between 12 and 16 June 2023. I will ask Ms Drinan to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: I thank Ms Drinan. That is a clean bill of health for the education sector. Can we agree to note the listing of accounts and financial statements? Agreed. As usual, the listing of accounts and financial statements will be published as part of our minutes. We now move to correspondence. As previously agreed, items that were not flagged for discussion for this meeting will continue to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: I thank the Deputy for that information. With his permission, we will note in our letter that the question was asked by a committee member at that point.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: Did the Deputy reference the ventilation system specifically?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: In our letter, we will point out that no problems with the ventilation system were outlined in the reply to the Deputy, despite the fact that it appears that all of this was known in May 2022.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: And the Secretary General of the Department of Health. That is the proposal.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: There is a proposal relating to our work programme that, when these organisations are before us, this matter be included. They are due in fairly soon, according to our list. We can ask that specific question. The report might be a response from the consultants or it might be the outcome of an examination – it might not actually be called a "report" – but let us look for it....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: We need to broaden our wording to include a review or examination.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: My understanding is that there is a review.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: I brought this up with the Taoiseach this morning at the meeting of the Working Group of Committee Cathaoirligh that the Minister for Health, yesterday or the day before, stated there is not a compliant programme. He mentioned this as a breach of contract. That is what he said.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: Okay, we will ask those questions. There is a list of questions here to go to them. On the question about the body that commissioned the report, Children's Health Ireland, we could write to it and ask if there is a document and a response and maybe a response to the concerns the committee has been raising around this, in particular, the completion of the 11 theatres.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: Okay. We will seek that information from both bodies. That concludes our correspondence for this week. I will move on to our work programme. At our meeting next week, we will engage with the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board. On 6 July, we will engage with Inland Fisheries Ireland on its 2021 financial statements. On 13 July, we will engage with the Department of Enterprise, Trade...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: Regardless of whether we are bringing them in on the same day, I would ask the committee to agree that we would bring in the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board as soon as possible. We have Uisce Éireann prioritised, but maybe in the first two hearings we can get Uisce Éireann and, following that, the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board. Whether we would...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: We can ask it in. As normal, there will be an official present from the Department as well. We can include that. Does any member wish to raise any other matter regarding the work programme?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: We should have.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: Is it likely the 2022 accounts will come in in September?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: What is the timeline for that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: I presume claims could not be allowed to hold up the final book on the audit because claims could drag on for a number of years.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: That concludes our consideration of the work programme for today. That last item on the public agenda is any other business, if any member wishes to raise any other matters. No. I propose we now move into private session briefly before adjourning until 9.30 a.m. on Thursday, 29 June. Go raibh maith agaibh.