Results 7,781-7,800 of 20,057 for speaker:Brian Stanley
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: The letter states that turnback facilities and the layout of the existing train station at Kilcock would require reconstruction to facilitate the turnback capacity. The Deputy has more information on this than I do.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: The next one is No. 1640B, which is from Mr. Mark Griffin, Secretary General of the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, dated 21 December 2022, providing information the committee requested regarding the ownership of National Broadband Ireland and an update regarding the national broadband plan. It is proposed to note and publish it. Is that agreed? Agreed. Deputy...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: There is an industry in building the hospital, but there is also an industry here around claims.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: There is literally a parallel industry of claims. Being reasonable and practical about it, all of us would accept that with such a large project there would be a large number of claims but we are looking at numbers in the region of just over 1,000.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: There is potentially half a billion euro extra here-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: -----because of these claims.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: We have the board on the work programme.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: We should ask as well whether there are legal implications in terms of the handover. When a contractor goes on site to build a house or whatever else, there comes a point when there is a handover. The question is whether legal issues arise if there are still several hundred claims in dispute, if not all of them have been resolved and some of them are before the courts, and if there are...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: Let us get clarification.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: Let us hope so.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: I know.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: We will see where this goes. We will seek clarification. If the price of glass has gone up, and there is high inflation on glass, which I think there is, that would certainly make it a lot more expensive than what it costs because there is a lot of glass.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: Will that be within three months?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: We could get the board in. I will not say what we can do, based on the previous discussion. No. 1643B is from Mr. Graham Doyle, Secretary General, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. It is dated 22 December 2022 - we had them all very busy in the week before Christmas - and provides information requested by the committee regarding reviewing planning permissions granted by...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: It is a chicken and egg situation because the process of putting the masts in place could pass out the legal system. In other words, if matters wind up in the courts and during that time planning permission is granted for a large number of these masts in places that are being disputed, the masts could be put in place. That is my understanding of the position.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: Given that we could be caught in the situation we are speaking about, one would at least expect the pause button to be pressed. I think that is what the Deputy is referring to.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: Is the Deputy suggesting we would write back to An Bord Pleanála and ask-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: I think that would be wise-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)
Brian Stanley: -----in view of the fact that until matters regarding the legal process have been concluded to some extent, there would be a pause. The next category of correspondence is correspondence from and related to private individuals and any other correspondence. The following items have been held over from previous meetings and we will take them together. The first is No. 1574C from Deputy...