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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: We are in public session.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: I ask Deputy McAuliffe to be brief.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: There was one prior to that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: By way of being helpful, I note that I have discussed this matter with the Comptroller and Auditor General and his office will be doing further work on it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: This will be reported on.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: The Deputy is correct, we need to-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: I will try to be helpful. I ask the Deputies to bear with me on this. I saw all of the exchanges and the back and forth last week and I certainly felt it was very unsatisfactory. That is the mildest thing I can say about it. There is further work to be done. I ask the Deputies to hold fire. There is a conversation that we need to have around this. I ask that the Deputies hold fire on...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: I can ask the Comptroller and Auditor General to comment in public or I could ask him to respond in private. If he feels okay about commenting in public, I am happy enough with that but I am also happy enough to leave it to private session.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: We also have a substantial draft report to go through today. Does Deputy Verona Murphy want to come in briefly?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: The nature of the conversation was in that vein. I just ask that the Deputy be patient.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: We should not let it go and we will not.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: We are going to revert back.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: They can be overcautious with a capital "C". That completes the public business. We will now move into private session.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (24 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: 144. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider the complaints from charities and public representatives regarding the difficulties that people are having in contacting a community welfare officer when applying for supplementary welfare allowance and the additional needs payment. [25128/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (24 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: 145. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department recognises that the removal of the physical clinics held by community welfare officers has led to difficulties for applications who are in a financially vulnerable position; and if her Department will now reinstate this face-to-face service. [25129/23]

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (23 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion. The reality is we have 888,000 people on hospital waiting lists, record waiting times, record numbers of people leaving emergency departments without treatment. We got the figures this week on that. Figures released to Sinn Féin show that 497 people left Portlaoise emergency department between January and March 2023 without being...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: It was refused.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Legislative Process (23 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: 233. To ask the Minister for Finance when we can expect the Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2020 to complete all stages in Dáil Éireann and be enacted. [24312/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tax Code (23 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: 403. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when we can expect to see the residential zoned land tax imposed. [24235/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tax Code (23 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: 404. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the significant number of property developers that are seeking to delist property to avoid the residential zoned land tax being imposed upon their vacant lands; his plans to provide oversight to ensure the tax is properly and efficiently imposed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24236/23]