Results 581-600 of 20,012 for speaker:Brian Stanley
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: It is about the timeline as well. We have to give organisations four to six weeks' notice. I suggest that beyond 7 November we could put the regulator in for a slot there. Is the Deputy happy with that?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: We had this with a couple of other public bodies in the last year or two. What we can do is ask. Mr. Maurice Buckley is the former cathaoirleach of the OPW. We can ask, but there is no onus on him to attend.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: Powers of compellability possibly would not stand up. We can look at that, but I am not too sure that would pertain. Is that all right?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: We will ask him. We move to any other business on the public agenda. Members do not wish to raise any other matters.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: All are welcome to the first meeting of the new Dáil term, which, depending on who you talk to, will be a long one or a short one. We have received apologies from Deputy Imelda Munster. We have the Comptroller and Auditor General, Seamus McCarthy, here as a permanent witness to the committee. Members are reminded of the provision of Standing Order 218, that the committee shall...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: The public business before us this morning is as follows: minutes of the meeting of 11 July 2024; accounts and statements; correspondence; consideration of draft committee work programme; and any other business. Before we start, I would like to raise the issue of the Leinster House bike shed. The committee has agreed to write to the Accounting Officers of the OPW and the Houses of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: I thank the Deputy for doing that. Mr. Peter Finnegan, the Clerk of the Dáil, does not have any responsibility for capital works. The committee accepts that. I thank the Deputy for that clarification.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: I thank the Deputy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: I thank the Deputy for his contribution. Deputy Ó Cathasaigh wanted to come in on this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: We will have the C and AG's report and we will be teed up for it. There is a meeting scheduled as well with the finance committee on this matter. The OPW comes directly under it. There will be some information at that. We can include the issue Deputy McAuliffe raised regarding the EV chargers in the list of questions to the OPW. I saw the chargers going in because I park over that way...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: Notwithstanding the difficulties at the moment in trying to get companies to tender for works, there is the issue of what type of contract was used in this case. So-called framework agreements may need to be discussed. There is the cost of public works that are done under framework agreements, not just by the Houses of the Oireachtas but by various public bodies. This issue is going to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: We will go through them first.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: I want to ask about the export guarantee account, which Mr. McCarthy said is dormant.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: Why is that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: What I am trying to figure out is why it is a dormant account.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: I know but-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: It is called the export guarantee account here.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: In relation to the Apple escrow account, is there a breakdown of legal or consultancy costs for advice that the Government may have got or for legal representation?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: Are legal fees included in the-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: Okay.