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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: We can do that. We will seek that additional information. Another issue that arises in the correspondence, as well as other information that is outstanding, relates to vacant properties. In Laois, there are seven vacant properties and the letter outlines the potential uses of them, including in one case demolition to make way for another development of a nursing unit in Mountmellick. I...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: The concern is that given the level of risk and the fact the HSE has experienced a cyberattack, it could seem like a small start.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: Yes, although perhaps there is good reason for that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: Perhaps that explains it. Category C comprises correspondence from and relating to private individuals and any other correspondence. There are two items, which we will take together. No. 1574C is from Deputy Hourigan, dated 11 November 2022, and No. 1577C is from Deputy Carroll MacNeill, dated 15 November 2022. Both items concern the Charities Regulator and the alleged operation of a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: Hopefully we will have a reply from the Charities Regulator and, perhaps, answers to the parliamentary questions, with one or two of the relevant Deputies present. No. 1578 is correspondence from Deputy Verona Murphy, dated 15 November, about An Bord Pleanála. Since the Deputy is unavoidably absent, I propose that we hold the matter over.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: We raised this before in relation to 33 towns and villages regarding which a decision was made by two members of the board. It relates to the same company.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: Most of them, if not all. I cannot remember the detail on that. We can ask about the status and whether a review is being carried out into planning permissions for masts where the same individuals in An Bord Pleanála were involved in making the decisions and where those permissions all related to mobile phone masts. Is the Deputy happy with that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: We will move on to our work programme. A draft of it has been circulated. Next week, 1 December, we are due to have two public engagements. The first, in the morning, will be with representatives of the Department of Social Protection, and the second, in the afternoon, will be with the operator of the national lottery. Members will be aware that a joint sitting of the Houses has been...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: On that basis, we will have two public engagements on 8 December: the morning session, with representatives of the Revenue Commissioners; and the afternoon session, with the operator of the national lottery. Therefore, the meeting with representatives of the national lottery will be two weeks away. The final public engagement for this year, with the OPW, is scheduled for 15 December. At...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: Is the Deputy referring to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth Affairs?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: Its Secretary General, Kevin McCarthy, was in here a few weeks ago. It is also proposed that we invite in representatives of the HSE regarding emergency care and waiting lists. We dealt with ambulances and to some extent touched briefly on the issue of emergency care. There is a meeting scheduled for 9 February.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: We can get more information from the Comptroller and Auditor General about the disability service agencies. It is due from his office next year in relation to the HSE.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: It is a big organisation. The engagements are listed in a proposed sequence and members might wish to reorder these or propose the inclusion of other bodies. I will go through the draft. The first engagement we have scheduled for the new year is with An Bord Pleanála on 19 January. Members will recall that we examined An Bord Pleanála’s 2020 financial statements on 14...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: If we are likely to have them, I would be happy enough to go ahead. If there is a strong possibility that we will not have them, I would be prepared to hold back. Is the Comptroller and Auditor General happy enough that they will be available?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: In view of that, we would be better holding back.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)
Brian Stanley: If there are specific areas the Deputy wants to examine, he should submit those to the secretariat. Is it agreed to postpone the engagement?