Results 641-660 of 20,040 for speaker:Brian Stanley
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: Does Deputy Murphy have one more point to make?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: The HSE is on the schedule for 24 October. I had drawn a circle around the payment because the €1.7 million paid in respect of private income was something that jumped out at me when I saw it this week. My understanding is that all consultants are now on an 80:20 contract and they must spend 80% of their time doing public work and 20% on private work. All new consultants coming into...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: Was it an award by a court?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: With the committee's agreement I suggest that we write to the HSE and seek those details.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: We will not get the name of the person but we will find out about the process and whether the settlement was agreed prior to a court hearing. We must ask how it came about, at what point the settlement was made, and how the figure of €1.37 million was reached. We could clarify the point Deputy Catherine Murphy asked about whether it was for work within a public hospital. We should...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: This is in addition to the payment of nearly €1 million being paid to one individual within a 12-month period. If I recall correctly, the amount that was received was €900,000.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: We had Tusla in. From memory -----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: We can bring it back again. We do not have anything scheduled with Tusla at the moment. The secretariat is just checking the list.
- 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...