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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Dec 2022)
Brian Stanley: We will request that information. No. R1588 is from Mr. Ray Mitchell, assistant national director of the HSE, and is dated 21 November 2022. It provides information requested by the committee regarding governance arrangements for section 38 and 39 organisations. I flagged this one. Reading the response, I was trying to understand the level of compliance. I propose we write back...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Dec 2022)
Brian Stanley: I read the letter a number of times. I found it-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Dec 2022)
Brian Stanley: It is not written for a layperson. It is very much written in the type of language used between the contractor and the board and with which they are familiar. It is not that helpful to us.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Dec 2022)
Brian Stanley: The letter is as clear as mud. We need to-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Dec 2022)
Brian Stanley: In plain English. The letter uses the type of language with which people in the contractor's office and the board's office are familiar. It is the language they use every day. I am more concerned after reading the letter than I was beforehand. In light of this week's news about the escalation of costs, we need to take a few actions. While we are being denied the real information we need,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Dec 2022)
Brian Stanley: I read the letter a number of times. I have seen other documents where explanations were given, but this letter is not helpful at all. It needs to come to us in plain language and spell out exactly what the board is talking about. We will ask about the other points as well, including those the Deputy just raised regarding the review. The next category of correspondence is correspondence...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Dec 2022)
Brian Stanley: Okay, but I think we need to deal with it then because we do not want to be-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Dec 2022)
Brian Stanley: It is a serious matter, and it has come up again. When it came up previously, fairly definite answers were given in response to former Deputy Kate O'Connell at that meeting. It could be a serious matter so we will conclude on it and deal with it next week one way or the other. I thank Deputy Catherine Murphy for that. Moving on, at our meeting last week we also agreed to hold over No....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Dec 2022)
Brian Stanley: Obviously, we cannot get into the individual planning applications, but there was a group of them together and we have looked for a response from An Bord Pleanála. If the Deputy is happy with that, we will await the response.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Dec 2022)
Brian Stanley: Members are happy enough with that. No. 1584 C is correspondence from an individual, dated 19 November. It is a press release regarding Horse Sport Ireland and the role of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. It is proposed to note this item. Deputy Carthy has flagged the item for discussion. We can hold it until next week if members so wish or we can deal with it now....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Dec 2022)
Brian Stanley: We will ask the Department for that. Do you want to ask the Department about the potential cost estimate, Deputy?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Dec 2022)
Brian Stanley: I know that since this Benefacts issue has arisen it has been-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Dec 2022)
Brian Stanley: We will ask the Department to re-confirm that figure because-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Dec 2022)
Brian Stanley: Benefacts was a very low-cost service in overall expenditure terms. The information it was able to provide was not very significant. We will ask for that. That concludes the correspondence for this week. Moving on to the work programme, we had a long discussion on this last week. The engagements scheduled to year end are as follows. Next week we will have two public engagements, so I...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Dec 2022)
Brian Stanley: It is basically that we do not all go away at Christmas without having fixtures in place for the new year because-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Dec 2022)
Brian Stanley: Members are happy enough with the schedule that has been set out. May I confirm agreement on that? It is agreed. That concludes consideration of our work programme for today. The final item is any other business on the public agenda members wish to raise. There is none. We will now go into private session before adjourning until next week, 8 December, when we will engage with the...
- Toll Charge Increases: Motion [Private Members] (29 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: I welcome the news that the toll increase across the PPP roads and the M50 will be deferred until July 2023. However, this does not go far enough. Workers and families across the State are in a cost-of-living crisis and the Government's only solution is to kick the can down the road until July. The Minister for Transport was notified in early September, prior to the budget, of these price...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: I raise the issue of e-scooters with An Taoiseach. Legislation is due on them soon. There is a rush on this and it has to be dealt with as a matter of urgency because we have lists of serious injuries being reported where members of the public, pedestrians, cyclists and, indeed, users of e-scooters are being injured. Many parents will buy them now as Christmas presents for their...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: -----in secondary legislation. This is an important issue, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.