Results 621-640 of 20,012 for speaker:Brian Stanley
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: We can put it in the work programme.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: I assure the committee that it was a three-year process for this particular woman. It is very difficult.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: The fines kept coming.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: The Deputy is correct. This is a substantial sum of money, €24.7 billion. Sometimes €22 billion is quoted but this is almost €25 billion in a year. I have no problem with that money going to the HSE but as I have told the HSE here on a few occasions, we could load up another €10 billion on an articulated lorry and drove it over to its headquarters of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: We are due to have the HSE in. We need to use the first hearing we have with it to zoom in in a more focused way and try to get better outcomes. I thank the Deputy. Can we agree the listing of accounts and financial statements, first? Is that agreed? Agreed. As usual, the listing of accounts and financial statements will be published as part of our minutes. It is 11.10 a.m. The...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: If we take it that the company is only performing at 64% of delivery, we can calculate based on form to date that it will go beyond that. Those are the questions.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: That is useful. I flagged it because I thought committee members would want to apprise themselves of where things are at, or not at. We can write to the board of the children's hospital and ask if it has imposed the 15% sanction to try to move this along. That is the only stick it has at this stage. We can also ask if it has received an updated timeline for substantial completion, if it...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: The assumption is that it is unsafe. That is my point.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: However, if it is deemed safe and the applicant submits serious grounds for considering the country to be unsafe-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: My understanding is that the Government or the State decides what is safe or unsafe and that there is a list. I believe there are ten on the list.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: Could a situation arise where people in this State could claim that they are being disadvantaged or persecuted if they were going to another state? I am just giving that example. It could be somebody living in England coming here.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: They would have to make the case but the paragraph before it reads: A country that has been designated under section 72 of the Act as a safe country of origin shall, for the purposes of the assessment of an application for international protection, be considered to be a safe country of origin in relation to a particular applicant only whereIt goes on to list conditions under a) and b). We...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: I am not clear on what is alluded to with point b). I believe that needs to be clarified.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: I was going to raise that in respect of some countries.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: It must be read in the context of the previous paragraph, which says that a country will be considered a safe country of origin in respect of a particular applicant only where certain criteria are met.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: I am asking the Department to clarify what it means.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: Fair enough.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: I think it is unusual in the context of all of that. It is unusual in terms of how the system works. I am just raising that point.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: When you take it in the context of paragraph 2, where the process by which the current countries have been designated is outlined-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: I would like to have clarification on it but I would also like to ask whether the Department has considered regionalisation, that is, assessing regions of countries. The Deputy has referred to that and I have made a note to raise that issue as well. We should ask whether the Department does any assessment of different regions because we know certain countries-----