Results 6,401-6,420 of 20,410 for speaker:Brian Stanley
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: Is Deputy McAuliffe's question brief?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: I thought you had concluded, but you can come back in.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: Without naming names.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: I want to give Mr. Lemass an opportunity to respond from the Department's point of view, if he wishes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: Please allow Mr. Lemass to continue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: We will do a report on this matter. I thank Mr. Lemass for clarifying the Department's position and efforts made since. This discussion happened under the spectre of these matters being sub judiceand the fact there is business across at the river at the High Court, which is where papers have been lodged. I acknowledge that and I know it has presented difficulties for witnesses. It has also...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: The business proposed this afternoon is as follows: minutes, accounts, financial statements, correspondence, work programme and any other business. The first item of business is the minutes of the meeting of 11 May, which have been circulated to members. Do members wish to raise any matters regarding the minutes? Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. As usual, the minutes will be published...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Brian Stanley: We are in that time of the year. Moving to correspondence, as previously agreed, items that were 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 regarding correspondence are recorded in the minutes of the committee’s meetings and published on the...
- 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.