Results 881-900 of 20,326 for speaker:Brian Stanley
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: Is the new owner selling it in portions?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: Would it be possible for the OPW to buy a portion?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: As the OPW is due in, would it be useful to flag this matter with them as an item?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: We could ask them what they are doing with access now in terms of acquiring the necessary piece of land for access.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: Okay. I thank the Deputy. On the response by the OPW regarding the flood relief schemes, I want to note that there is in the region of €24 million available for the Portarlington flood relief scheme and the Mountmellick scheme combined. There is a €6.8 million budget for the Mountmellick scheme and €17.3 million for the Portarlington scheme. The funding is welcome...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: Yes.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: Yes. In terms of publishing, we might just run it by the Office of Parliamentary Legal Advisers, OPLA.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: From initial discussions with the staff, we are of the opinion that the material can be published. We will do one check with the OPLA first.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: Yes.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: The fact that this has gone on since 2003 and it is now 21 years later is fairly significant. No. R2812 was received from the office of the Chairman of the Office of Public Works, dated 23 September, provides a response to the committee’s request that the OPW attends a meeting of the committee on 10 October. The letter states that the Chairman has a long-standing commitment to...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: Okay.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: On that correspondence, we will seek to have the OPW here on 22 October for a public meeting. That concludes our consideration of correspondence. Moving to the work programme, the draft work programme discussion document has been circulated to members. Next week we will engage with the University of Limerick to resume our consideration of the 2020, 2021 and 2022 financial statements and...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: We can put it on our list for beyond that date, if the Deputy wants to. I think the hospital development board-----
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: No, we are booked.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: It is about the timeline as well. We have to give organisations four to six weeks' notice. I suggest that beyond 7 November we could put the regulator in for a slot there. Is the Deputy happy with that?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: We had this with a couple of other public bodies in the last year or two. What we can do is ask. Mr. Maurice Buckley is the former cathaoirleach of the OPW. We can ask, but there is no onus on him to attend.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: Powers of compellability possibly would not stand up. We can look at that, but I am not too sure that would pertain. Is that all right?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: We will ask him. We move to any other business on the public agenda. Members do not wish to raise any other matters.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: All are welcome to the first meeting of the new Dáil term, which, depending on who you talk to, will be a long one or a short one. We have received apologies from Deputy Imelda Munster. We have the Comptroller and Auditor General, Seamus McCarthy, here as a permanent witness to the committee. Members are reminded of the provision of Standing Order 218, that the committee shall...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: The public business before us this morning is as follows: minutes of the meeting of 11 July 2024; accounts and statements; correspondence; consideration of draft committee work programme; and any other business. Before we start, I would like to raise the issue of the Leinster House bike shed. The committee has agreed to write to the Accounting Officers of the OPW and the Houses of the...