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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: Those projects have not been taken in charge when local authority engineers say that could be done.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: I can only speak about my area but that is true with respect to less than a handful of estates. The expectation for the majority of estates for which bonds were paid was that they would be taken in charge. Irish Water is now putting new conditions on it. I do not want to open a big discussion on the matter. There is a problem with taking in charge.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: The opposite is the case for the ones I am talking about. They were all to be brought into public charge. It was in the conditions of planning permission.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: I will show the Deputy two schemes

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: I am told that process is okay in Kildare but the Deputy might tell me something different. I can tell the committee that in the most midland county, County Laois, it is difficult. There have been many complaints about it, including this week. We will try to slot Irish Water into one of the July slots. We need to start looking inside Irish Water, as it were. It is timely. It will soon...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: Yes, €100,000 is reported to have been spent on rebranding. That should be put on the invitation. It is one of the issues I would like to know about. I hope I am not told that all the vans, trucks, helmets and so on have to be sprayed.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: No. Uisce Éireann is already on the logo. I welcome the fact that it is an Irish name. It has been there from the start. It could have been called that from the start. Now we are told that a company is being paid that kind of money to do the rebranding. That is absolutely bananas and nuts. Anyone in the corridor or in the street would say it should just be done. Uisce...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: Deputy Dillon recently asked for Inland Fisheries Ireland to come before the committee. It is a somewhat depressing matter. I ask members to take that into consideration. If we invite Irish Water, that would mean putting either NAMA or Inland Fisheries Ireland off until the autumn. Perhaps the NAMA report could wait until one of the first sessions in September..

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: It is in the hands of the committee.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: I will bring in the Comptroller and Auditor General on that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: When will the financial statements come?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: Do members wish to go ahead with IFI? There seems to be a little bit of doubt.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: My sense would be that we should meet IFI before the summer and hold off on NAMA until the autumn. Are members happy with that? Agreed. I am mindful that Deputy Dillon raised it a few times. Other suggestions include meeting the Department of Transport about chapter 18 of the Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2021 with respect to motor tax receipts, meeting the Irish...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: RTÉ is not directly accountable to us because it is a semi-State commercial company. However, we have asked. If it wants to refuse, it can refuse. In fairness it has not refused in the past. A new CEO is in place. I heard something this week about it, but I cannot remember the name.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: That is it. We wish him well in the job. We can certainly put a meeting with him on the work programme. There is an immediate issue. I have a view on it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: We can put a meeting with him on the work programme. If the Deputy wants to address any issue with him through correspondence for clarification, that can also be done. It is the free-to-air argument around sports. Its parent Department is coming before the committee so we could invite a representative of RTÉ on the same day.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: The Deputy is happy enough with that. We have met with them about finance, governance, self-employment and so on. Some headway has been made with all of that, but if we need to invite them again on those or related matters, I certainly would be up for it. The last item on the agenda is any other business. Do any members wish to raise any other matter before we move briefly into private...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (9 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: 185. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide assurances that the N80 Mountmellick bypass will be prioritised for funding in any review and included in the next phase of the national development plan. [21309/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (9 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: 186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will raise with his senior officials and Transport Infrastructure Ireland the critical situation with the Mountmellick road N80 in Portlaoise town, which needs cycles lanes, three roundabouts and road safety measures, as identified by an expert group and Laois County Council. [21310/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (9 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: 642. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to improve the capacity for genetic testing to identify rare diseases. [21673/23]