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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: Okay. We will note and publish No. R1784B. No. R1787B, from Mr. Kevin McCarthy, Secretary General, Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, dated 9 March 2023, provides information requested by the committee arising from the meeting on 16 February 2023. It is proposed to note and publish this correspondence. Is that agreed? Agreed. Deputy Murphy and I...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: If we look at the tables in pages 2 and 3, we can see the figures that we have taken. The population is 5.1 million, and then we see the number of active temporary protection registrations as of 9 January was 70,000 in Ireland. It has gone up substantially since then. As I have said, it is great that we have been able to help those people. It has, however, put a strain on. We have had to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: Yes. We will also ask if it is being addressed with European counterparts. When the Department was in before the committee, we could see that they were under significant pressure. They admitted that what they are providing is not always satisfactory. We all know that but we want to try to help people who are coming and we ought continue to do that. There will be more people coming. When...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: Okay, if members are happy enough to do that. Is that agreed? Agreed. No. R1795 B from Mr. Mark Griffin, Secretary General, Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, is dated 14 March 2023 and provides information requested by the committee regarding Inland Fisheries Ireland. It is proposed to note and publish this item of correspondence. Deputy Catherine Murphy flagged...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: It is a substantial list there of the functions that "remained to be performed and could not be performed". We can look for that if agreed by the committee members. Two commissioners have been appointed to that body to oversee it. I believe it is two former county managers. This was as a result of the collapse of the board and governance structure there. Hopefully they can get on top of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: We will note and publish the item of correspondence. We move on now to No. R1801 B from Mr. Ray Mitchell, assistant national director, HSE, dated 15 March 2023, which provides an update in relation to information requested by the committee regarding administration of the health repayment scheme, which is the nursing home charges. It is proposed to note and publish this item of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: There is another point I wanted to raise. During that meeting, we were promised a reply within two weeks regarding nursing home charges for medical card patients for items that were normally be available under the medical card scheme. As far as I know, we have not received that clarification yet. I ask that we would include that in it, because-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: That slot is taken. I am anxious to have them back in as well if this happens, and if we do not get a satisfactory response.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: We are looking at two weeks after Easter before we get into that territory.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: Can the Deputy Carthy hold that until we come back to the work programme? I do not want to get into a discussion about the work programme. We have the Central Bank on 20 April and An Bord Pleanála on 27 April.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: We can do that. I am in the committee's hands on this matter. If members want to do that, I do not have a problem. I am always open to doing that, subject to committee room availability.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: I suggest one way to deal with it. We have the HSE pencilled in for 4 May, so one way of dealing with it is to would bring in the Secretary General of the Department of Health on the same day, if the Deputy wanted to do that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: I want answers ion another matter as well, which is the services, material and items normally provided under the medical card scheme in nursing homes. We were promised a reply on that. This has come up a number of times, and it is really frustrating. One issue around that needs to be clarified relates to the contracts that the HSE has with the private nursing homes. The officials were...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: I know. If it is agreed by the committee to have a meeting-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: Let us be clear about this. If it is agreed by the committee to have a special meeting, I have no problem with that. I agree with the Deputy. The can is being kicked down the road on it, and we need to try to catch hold of it and stop it. We are being fobbed off there and we just need definitive answers within the timeline that was promised.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: No. 1785 is correspondence from an individual regarding the Kolbe Special School, Portlaoise, County Laois. It is proposed to request information from the Department of Education on the matters raised regarding public expenditure and request the correspondent's consent to forward the correspondence to the Joint Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: I visited that school in Monaghan more than 20 years ago as part of a vocational education committee, VEC, delegation seeking to set up a Gaelscoil in Laois. Mr. Duffy, as I recall, was the chairman of the board. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: Yes, I remember his name. That school was in prefabs at the time. Seeing the conditions at Kolbe is believing. It is intolerable. We will copy our correspondence to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform. The Deputy is correct to say that Department was cited. The issue of construction inflation arose at the meeting last night regarding...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: I have been dealing with a school since 2018 that has been told a lack of money will not hold up this project and that money is available.