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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Jun 2023)

Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. McCarthy. Do any members wish to come in on those?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Jun 2023)

Brian Stanley: Was the €1.68 million that had been committed in respect of work that subsequently was not carried out because the contractor terminated the contract goodbye money? If not, what was it?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Jun 2023)

Brian Stanley: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Jun 2023)

Brian Stanley: Okay. We will seek that information. Are the accounts and financial statements agreed? Agreed. As usual, they will be published as part of our minutes. The Comptroller and Auditor General has to leave us early today, so I thank Mr. McCarthy and his staff for attending the meeting and assisting us. We will move on to correspondence. As previously agreed, items that were not flagged...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Jun 2023)

Brian Stanley: I thank Deputy Murphy. I know that we totted up the cost of these here before going back over the last 25 years, and it has come to a large sum. There may be a need for standalone body, but if there is already a body there which can be beefed up, and its role expanded, it would be better. Most people would be happy enough to see that we would get a cost-effective way of dealing with it,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Jun 2023)

Brian Stanley: Okay, we will take that as agreed. I will move on to No. R1907 B, which is from Mr. Ken Jordan, principal officer at the Department of Rural and Community Development. It is dated 24 May 2023, and it is providing information requested by the committee arising from the meeting with the Department on 30 March 2023. It is proposed to note and publish this item of correspondence with the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Jun 2023)

Brian Stanley: I saw in correspondence relating to the Carmichael Centre that it was trying to put in place a replacement system. We also need to get a reply from the Department regarding the rural regeneration and development fund. There is a huge differential in what has been received by counties. For example, County Mayo put in an application for a total of 13 approved projects and received €30...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Jun 2023)

Brian Stanley: Yes, that is my understanding. County Kildare got just over €9 million.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Jun 2023)

Brian Stanley: I am sure Deputy Dillon would argue the case that Mayo is a remote county with many challenges. We will request information on the matter.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Jun 2023)

Brian Stanley: Okay, we will request that information. I do not want to be too parochial about it but only a quarter of the submissions from Laois and Offaly were accepted. We need to ascertain the reasons for that and the wide variations in the total amounts allocated. No. R1908B is from Mr. Mark Griffin, Secretary General at the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, dated 23 May....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Jun 2023)

Brian Stanley: They are No. 1900C, which concerns an individual, and No. 1913, which relates to the Committee on Remit Oversight. I shall move on to the work programme. At our next meeting, on 15 June, we will engage with representatives of Sport Ireland. On 22 June, we will engage with representatives of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media and on 29 June we will have...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Jun 2023)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Deputy for that. We can add to our programme a meeting with representatives of the National Treatment Purchase Fund, if members agree.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Jun 2023)

Brian Stanley: I am sure the Secretary General would love to come back in again. Every time the witnesses have come in, the issue of housing expenditure has come up. It came out of the old rent supplement arrangement and the HAP made it more permanent. I totally agree with the Deputy on what needs to happen with the RAS. I understand the RAS was to be phased out but I do not know what happened in that...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Jun 2023)

Brian Stanley: There is approximately €1 billion a year going into HAP, RAS and leasings. It is more than €1 billion a year at the moment.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Jun 2023)

Brian Stanley: We will make that request. With regard to the meeting with Sport Ireland on 15 June, I propose to add the 2021 financial statements of Sport Ireland Facilities back onto the agenda. It is a subsidiary of Sport Ireland that maintains and operates the Sport Ireland campus. If members are agreeable, we will add that to the invitation. Is that agreed? Agreed. That concludes consideration of...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: Apologies have been received from Deputies Verona Murphy, Brady and O'Connor who are tied up with other business. I remind all those in attendance to ensure 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 reference witnesses may make to other persons in their...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. McCarthy for that. Ms McPhillips has five minutes for her opening statement. I invite her to proceed.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: The lead speaker this morning for the committee is Deputy Dillon. The Deputy has 15 minutes.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: I thank Deputy McAuliffe. I call Deputy Catherine Murphy.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: I understand the situation regarding individual cases but what the Deputy is saying is that at least eight or nine newspaper articles covered this. Insofar as the information is in the public domain, if Ms McPhillips feels she can answer it, I think it would be appreciated.