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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: Can we agree to note the listing of accounts and financial statements with those extra pieces inserted? Agreed. As usual, the listing of accounts and financial statements will be published as part of our minutes. I will move to correspondence. As previously agreed, items that were not flagged for discussion for this meeting will continue to be dealt with in accordance with the proposed...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: No, she is happy for it to be dealt with. I told her the two Benefacts-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: Yes. She is happy for the committee to deal with No. 1733. It is just the two items of correspondence relating to Benefacts that she asked to be held over. No. 1733B is from Mr. Robert Watt and relates to the new national maternity hospital and the public spending code. He outlines in the correspondence the external assurance process, EAP, and the status of the national maternity hospital...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: We can request it, if agreed by the committee. That is agreed. We will request the timeline. We will note and publish the item of correspondence. No. R1752 B is from Ms Eeva Leinonen, president of Maynooth University, and dated 20 February 2023. It provides information requested by the committee regarding a construction contract for a student centre. It is proposed to note and publish...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: This is a matter to which the committee will return. I wish to gather as much information as possible. I have been approached by constituent students and former students on the issue. This is the first time I have seen the extent of the EIB loan of €34.2 million. Has that all been drawn down?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: Could we write to the president and ask her to supply us with information in respect of what the €7.5 million has been spent on?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: Mr. McCarthy has indicated there was correspondence in January that outlines further details.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: There was a spend of €4 million to acquire land.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: That land is adjacent to the university.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: I would like to get more information on those items. I propose that the committee seek further information regarding the location and amount of land. The letter refers to a bus terminal. That could involve substantial works. I do not wish to pre-judge what will come back. It may be a bus terminal or something very limited. It may simply be an area where a bus can pull in and a shelter,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: Okay. We will ask Maynooth University to itemise for us what sports infrastructure it actually got for that and the scale of it, the number of car parking spaces provided and any evidence it has of work carried out on the ground. Is that agreed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: The university management does not actually say it has a plan. It states it will make recommendations to the governing authority on the most appropriate type of student facilities by June 2023.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: Yes, they are only recommendations. We will seek that additional information from the university. We will note and publish that correspondence also. That concludes our consideration of correspondence for this week. We move to the work programme. Next week we engage with the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, SEAI, on its financial statements for 2021. On 23 March, we will engage...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: No. I will ask the clerk to the committee to comment in private session later. I cannot do so in public session. At this point, there has been no confirmation. I propose we revisit this before the end of the meeting. Is that agreed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: It is essential that happens. We are being very patient on this matter. We will engage with An Bord Pleanála on 27 April in relation to its 2021 financial statements. I understand the Comptroller and Auditor General’s special report on the emergency procurement of ventilators by the HSE will be published soon. I propose we add an engagement on this report with the HSE, the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: That is fine. There are proposals on a number of other issues and there was a list from last week. We have An Bord Pleanála and the Central Bank. There is the University of Limerick, UL. We must bear in mind we will have compellability on the document, that is, the report from KPMG on the purchase of the Dunnes Stores site. Then there is the children's hospital. Deputy Catherine...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: We need to hit the targets. We do not want to give the Department too many issues or the meeting will go on forever.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: I know.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: Forestry is one big issue there. I ask that we pencil in UL as soon as possible. We have been waiting over a year for that report. We should try to prioritise that, the Comptroller and Auditor General’s special report and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. I hope we can fit them all in. Does any member wish to raise any other matter?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: Who is "we"?