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- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Brian Stanley: I am conscious of that and I acknowledge the work of the OPW.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Brian Stanley: I suppose there is the fact of the wide brief and the amount of property involved. The Deputies reflect the public. We are elected by our peers. The public place huge value on some of the sites we mentioned, not only heritage sites but also public offices and so on. We are lucky in this State that we have an OPW that looks after all these facilities for us. On top of that, now it is...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Brian Stanley: And value for money. I know that giving the OPW that framework is a new departure. We did not just write down eight questions on a sheet of paper. Value for money is a hard thing to nail down. We went through a process of doing that. We had some external advice as well. I want the OPW to come back to the committee using that template of eight questions. I know it is new.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Brian Stanley: And tell us why the OPW selected them.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Brian Stanley: You see the questions. That is great. I thank the witnesses for their work. I wish their staff a happy Christmas. We will agree to note and publish the statements from today and to follow up. We look forward to the OPW coming back with that information. I will now suspend this meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts until 1.45 p.m. We have important business to attend to in the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)
Brian Stanley: The business this afternoon is minutes, accounts statements, correspondence, work programme and any other business. We will then go briefly into private session before adjourning until 19 January. The minutes of meetings on 1 December and 8 December have been circulated. Do any members wish to raise matters? Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. They will as usual be published on the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)
Brian Stanley: Do any members wish to speak on those?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)
Brian Stanley: Is the list of accounts and financial statements agreed? Agreed. The accounts and statements will be published as part of our minutes. We will move on to correspondence. As previously agreed, items that are not items of discussion for this meeting will continue to be dealt with in accordance with the proposed actions that have been circulated and decisions taken by the committee on the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)
Brian Stanley: It is No. 1582 regarding landfills.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)
Brian Stanley: It will dealt with as set out. The next correspondence is No. 1600B from Mr. Ray Mitchell, assistant national director of the HSE, providing the following information requested by the committee arising from the meeting with the HSE on 6 October. It is proposed to note and publish the item of correspondence. Is that agreed? Agreed. Deputies Catherine Murphy, Munster and Carthy flagged...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)
Brian Stanley: I thank the Deputy for raising the matter. I call Deputy Murphy to speak now, please.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)
Brian Stanley: Does the Deputy wish to speak to that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)
Brian Stanley: We will ask the HSE specifically in respect of that matter and in respect of the issue raised by Deputy Carthy. Moving on to point 8, and the vacant properties in Laois and Offaly, I note the replies sent back from the HSE in this correspondence in respect of the Portarlington Primary Care Centre are different to the replies that were given to a colleague in response to a recent...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)
Brian Stanley: We will follow up on that. No. 1607B is from Ms Carol Boate, regulator of the national lottery, dated 30 November, providing information requested by the committee on the number of people who commenced a self-exclusion in 2020 and 2021. This was raised at our recent meeting. It is proposed to query why the breakdown of self-exclusionary periods by length is not available and to note and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)
Brian Stanley: Is the Deputy seeking that information for 2021?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)
Brian Stanley: We will request that information from the regulator.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)
Brian Stanley: The terms of the licence certainly seem to leave a lot to be desired. The problem is the operator not being accountable to the committee. The regulator is accountable, however, and that is the route we will take with it. We will follow up on that. The next correspondence is No. 1613B from Mr. Ciarán Breen, director of the State Claims Agency, dated 6 December 2022, providing...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)
Brian Stanley: At the end of many of these inquiries and tribunals, we are left with a big bill. There are bills of €68 million and €142 million and sometimes there are very few positive outcomes. In the first instance, we should write to the Department of the Taoiseach and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to ask them, in view of the fact that we are looking at almost...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)
Brian Stanley: It would be good if we could do that. I thank the Deputy. No. 1615 is from David Moloney, who is the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. It is dated 6 December and it provides information that was requested by the committee regarding the status of the business case for the relocation of the National Maternity Hospital. I propose to note and publish this...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)
Brian Stanley: Okay. We will follow up on that. No. 1621 is from Ray Mitchell, assistant national director of the HSE. It is dated 12 December and it provides information that was requested by the committee arising from its consideration of a report entitled Funding and Deficit Challenges in Voluntary Disability Services Agencies. Members will recall that this concerns section 38 and 39 organisations,...