Results 6,381-6,400 of 20,382 for speaker:Brian Stanley
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: We can seek clarification on that. Some 81,000 people are being provided with accommodation. It is a huge challenge. From the hearing we had with the Secretary General, Mr. Kevin McCarthy, and his senior staff, it seems the Department is being put under huge pressure in respect of all of this. I have some questions around it. A total of 59,000 people sought accommodation and another...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: They are more overburdened today, unfortunately. They are really under pressure this week. A lot is landing on the people working in that Department who are trying try to sort out all of this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: Sometimes there may be good reasons for turning down these buildings.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: They might be buildings that are a bit difficult to refurbish-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: The fact is we are dealing with hundreds and hundreds of locations. I call Deputy Colm Burke.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: We will not solve it in this room-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: -----but I agree with the Deputy. I am sure everybody wants to see an end to it. Hopefully, the occupier is repelled and the sovereignty of the country can be restored. This is the nub of the issue-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: ---and the sooner that happens the better.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: We do.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: It is fair to say, given the speed with which we have had to deal with huge numbers, that the people in the Department dealing with this have worked very hard at it. If someone had said to us a year and a half ago that we were going to have to deal with this situation and that we would have been able to accommodate this number of people, we would have said there would not have been a hope of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: It is a crisis situation. We will put these questions to the Department of Justice and the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: No.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: It says that it will not.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: Okay, so-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: I know. No. R1883 B is correspondence received from Mr. Michael Corban, Department of Health, dated 9 May 2023, providing information requested by the committee arising from our meetings on 2 and 9 February 2023. It is proposed to note and publish this item of correspondence. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: I flagged this because there are several issues in it that I wish to raise. There is detailed information in this regard concerning GP services and the shortage of GPs. My specific question concerned what the Department was doing in respect of taking on the option of directly employed GPs, as set out in the Sláintecare policy documents. An answer is given stating that a strategic...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: That is correct.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: A lot of money is already going into GP practices for those support staff. If we look at the General Medical Services, GMS, contracts-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: Correct, but this provision has to be funded one way or the other-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: -----whether it is through private practice or salaried GPs. We specifically asked questions around recruitment and the pipeline of new GPs, which was an issue that has caused problems. Figures have been given for the number of training places to be increased. It is stated that the Irish College of General Practitioners, ICGP, currently estimates that 890 GPs will graduate from GP training...