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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]

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Chapter 14 - Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies (Resumed)
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021 (Resumed)
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (Resumed) (20 Apr 2023)

Brian Stanley: I welcome everyone to this morning's meeting. We have received apologies from Deputy Catherine Murphy. If attending the meeting from within the committee room, members and witnesses are asked to exercise personal responsibility to protect themselves and others from the risk of contracting Covid 19. Members of the committee attending remotely must do so from within the precincts of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Chapter 14 - Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies (Resumed)
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021 (Resumed)
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (Resumed) (20 Apr 2023)

Brian Stanley: No. Before we go the opening statements, I want you to address those three matters. I want you to address the non-attendance of the Governor or Deputy Governor at the meeting on 23 February and the issue of the two leaks.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Chapter 14 - Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies (Resumed)
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021 (Resumed)
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (Resumed) (20 Apr 2023)

Brian Stanley: We should agree that it is disappointing that both of those happened. In the case of the one about the report from the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General, that happened one day before the publication and went to a journalist. Obviously, the journalist has to do his job; I would not expect him to do anything else. In fairness to them, that is their business and we need to have a...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Chapter 14 - Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies (Resumed)
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021 (Resumed)
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (Resumed) (20 Apr 2023)

Brian Stanley: That is not the question I asked.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Chapter 14 - Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies (Resumed)
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021 (Resumed)
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (Resumed) (20 Apr 2023)

Brian Stanley: Does Mr. Makhlouf find it a strange coincidence that it has again happened one day before this public meeting?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Chapter 14 - Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies (Resumed)
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021 (Resumed)
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (Resumed) (20 Apr 2023)

Brian Stanley: How many officials-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Chapter 14 - Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies (Resumed)
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021 (Resumed)
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (Resumed) (20 Apr 2023)

Brian Stanley: How many officials at the Central Bank would have known of that figure of €53 million?