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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?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: Agreed. The next potential engagement is with the Housing Agency and the Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority, to examine their respective financial statements and Chapter 7 from the Comptroller and Auditor General's 2021 report, which concerns the Housing Agency’s revolving acquisition fund. Following naturally from that, it is proposed that we would hold an engagement...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: We had An Bord Pleanála pencilled in for 19 January.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: After that engagement with the Department of Health, it is proposed to examine its Vote, including expenditure on emergency departments and Chapter 12 on the financial impact of the cyberattack. I understand the Comptroller and Auditor General also has a special report on the procurement of ventilators due in the new year. We could pencil that in. The committee might wish to consider...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: Following that we have an engagement pencilled in with the National Treasury Management Agency in its capacity as the State Claims Agency to examine Chapter 20 on the management of the clinical indemnity scheme. I know this is an area of particular interest to some members, particularly given what has been the topical issue for the last fortnight or so. Following that, an engagement with...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: When scheduling, we need to understand we are dealing with other people's diaries. At least the secretariat now has a draft which it can try to match up with witnesses' availability and everything else. We will do some work on that before next week so that when we come back, we will have a schedule of work set out for the new year. That concludes our consideration of the work programme...