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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: We will seek information as to who is in charge. I think it will be the ETB.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: We will follow up for that information and come back with it. No. R1790B is from Mr. Niall Cody, Commissioner, Office of the Revenue Commissioners, dated 9 March 2023, providing information requested by the committee arising from the meeting with Revenue on 8 December 2022. It is proposed to note and publish this item of correspondence. Is that agreed? Agreed. Deputy Munster flagged it...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: The other thing that is noted is that the transfer of the three hospitals to the site, including fit-out etc., will bring it up to €1.73 billion. That is the nearest we have seen to a final-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: It states that additional costs in relation to the integration and transfer of services of the three children's hospitals to the new site brings the total programme costs - they are not saying budget, rather total costs - to €1.73 billion.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: It does not say that, though. It only says "costs". That is the way it is worded in the letter. It is the first time I have seen any-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: The claims, any overrun, and inflation would obviously bring it higher.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: This is an issue we will revisit during the year, I am sure.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: Given that a lot of this will find itself across the river in the courts, we could be looking at any length of time up to a couple of years before something is sorted.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: That is something no one has control over. However, if the budget is €1.73 billion at the moment and it is safe to say it will extend well beyond that by the time everything is wrapped up and completed and all claims are sorted, I think that is the point.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: I think so.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: Yes, once you get into the legal territory. We will note and publish that item of correspondence. We will move on No. 1812 from Mark Griffin, Secretary General of the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. It is dated 21 March and provides information requested by the committee regarding the quarterly report on the national broadband plan and the number of premises...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: I think I received a figure for schools in particular. I remember there was a figure. We will ask for an update on that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: Is the Deputy including local authority buildings in that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: Are local health centres in that as well?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: Okay. We will do that. Some 34,000 are connected, comprising all houses and premises, which is quite low. They were to pass 115,000 by January 2022. They were to pass 204,000 by 1 January 2023, but by the end of February, two months later, 120,000 had been passed with 34,000 connected. That is the pace it is moving at. We will request that information as well. We will move on to No....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: On that point and the accounts, the penalty payments incurred by An Bord Pleanála were €10,000 in 2021 and were €1.34 million in 2022. Was that a large number of-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: Nearly all of which were being lost. That is the point Deputy Murphy is making - an examination at that point.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: Okay. Deputy Murphy's proposal is-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: We will flag that with it for the meeting. Is that all right, Deputy Murphy?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: It might be the best way of dealing with it. Regarding No. 1814, I propose that we deal with that in private session. No. 1818 is from Ms Mary Hurley, Secretary General of the Department of Rural and Community Development. It is dated 23 March and relates to Pobal and the potential for a national funding platform of community and voluntary organisations. It is proposed to note and publish...