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Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)

Brian Stanley: Please, allow Ms Buckley to continue.

Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)

Brian Stanley: I thank Ms Buckley for that clarification. We went through a great deal at this meeting. I thank the witnesses and staff from An Bord Pleanála and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage for the work involved in preparing for the meeting. I also thank the Comptroller and Auditor General and Ms Henry for attending. Is it agreed that the clerk will seek follow-up...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Apr 2023)

Brian Stanley: The public business before us this afternoon is as follows: minutes, accounts and financial statements, correspondence, work programme and any other business. The first item is the minutes of the meeting of 30 March, which have been circulated. Members have the minutes in front of them. Do any members wish to raise any matters relating to the minutes? Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. As...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Apr 2023)

Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. McCarthy. We will move on to item No. 3, correspondence. As previously agreed, items that are not flagged for discussion for this meeting will continue to be dealt with in accordance with the proposed actions that have been circulated, and decisions taken by the committee in relation to correspondence are recorded in the minutes of the committee’s meetings and published...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Apr 2023)

Brian Stanley: We must wait until that is complete.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Apr 2023)

Brian Stanley: Is there a mechanism that can allow us to bring representatives of Irish Water in earlier?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Apr 2023)

Brian Stanley: I would be on for bringing them in. When Irish Water was established, many of us in the House at the time were of the opinion that it needed to be accountable to the Oireachtas and the Committee of Public Accounts. It was not the way it was established as part of the Ervia group. It is now. It is since-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Apr 2023)

Brian Stanley: It is, therefore, accountable from 1 January this year. I propose that we try to get it on to the work programme. There may be administrative issues around that on which we will get the secretariat involved. We must do that in private session because it is not allowed to come in on public session. We will hold that issue for now. The other body we should look at and try to get in is...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Apr 2023)

Brian Stanley: Its accounts should be audited by the Comptroller and Auditor general, though.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Apr 2023)

Brian Stanley: I understand that it is an adjunct of that Department. I will propose that. As I said, if members have issues they wish to raise or particular bodies they want to bring in for whatever reason, they should please flag them. That concludes the consideration of the work programme for today. As there is no other business members wish to raise in public session, we will now move into private...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (27 Apr 2023)

Brian Stanley: 219. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the 3% pay increase granted in February 2022 to public servants under the ‘pay restoration programme’ will be paid out to those workers who have not yet received it. [20005/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (27 Apr 2023)

Brian Stanley: 368. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update and timeline for works to be carried out on side A of Abbeyleix Hospital to cater for discharges from Portlaoise Hospital; and the current position regarding the recruitment of staff, including a consultant geriatrician, for the unit. [20141/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (26 Apr 2023)

Brian Stanley: 93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will meet with representatives from a network (details supplied) to discuss urgent related matters. [19736/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Residential Institutions (26 Apr 2023)

Brian Stanley: 154. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will meet with representatives from a network (details supplied) to discuss urgent related matters. [19737/23]

Re-introduction of Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2023)

Brian Stanley: Mortgage holders across the country are seriously struggling at the moment. I have received many complaints, as I am sure others have, from mortgage holders in Laois-Offaly. Households are paying interest rates of 7% and 8%, with repayments rising by thousands of euro per year. This is happening at the same time as the banks are making huge, record profits, but offering 0% interest on...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Apr 2023)

Brian Stanley: The question I have for the Taoiseach and the Minister for Health is regarding stroke victims in Laois, Carlow, north Tipperary and Kildare, who appear to be left with a very precarious service since the stroke unit closed in Naas hospital. People coming to Portlaoise hospital with strokes were being sent to Naas but in the past month or so that has stopped. Apparently there is a very...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Apr 2023)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister, there is a very serious issue.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Ukraine War (25 Apr 2023)

Brian Stanley: 63. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when local authorities in counties Laois and Offaly can expect to receive funding from the Ukrainian refugee Community Recognition Fund. [19281/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Economic Policy (25 Apr 2023)

Brian Stanley: 73. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she has read the Independent Report to Advance Community Wealth Building in Northern Ireland published in October 2022 by the Department for Communities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19282/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (25 Apr 2023)

Brian Stanley: 502. To ask the Minister for Health if all agencies that had workers providing services during Covid-19 have now received the pandemic bonus payment into their accounts. [18915/23]