Results 9,141-9,160 of 20,057 for speaker:Brian Stanley
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: Just so we are clear about this: is Deputy Hourigan's information that no consultation was carried out with any families or just with some?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: It is important that the communication is worded correctly. The issue is that there was not consultation with some families. I thank Deputy Hourigan for that. The first item of business is the minutes of our meeting of 22 September, which has been circulated to members. Do members wish to raise any matters in relation to the minutes? Okay. Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. As usual,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: It changed when local property tax, LPT, came in.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: Can we agree to note the listing of financial statements? Agreed. As usual, the listing of accounts and financial statements will be published as part of our minutes. Is that agreed? Agreed. The third item of business is correspondence. As previously agreed, items that were not flagged for discussion for this meeting will continue to be dealt with in accordance with the proposed...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: Is Deputy Murphy proposing that the committee looks for that information?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: I think it says that for major projects in excess of €100 million, the Department must put in place an external assurance process which will provide independent project scrutiny at the approval-in-principle and pre-tender stages
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: No. I am only telling the Deputy what the Department is saying.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: The fact that the Department had not received a formal business case for the proposal, as outlined by Deputy Carthy, jumped off the page. We have had all the debate over the past couple of years around it, and the project is now that much further on, but this still has not been done.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: Yes. Well now the Deputy has confirmation in front of her about where it is.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: It is a major capital project and the fact that this piece of work has not been done at this point is concerning. We will request that information from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. Hopefully, it will shed some light on that. We will note and publish that item of correspondence. Is that agreed? Agreed. No. 1459 is correspondence from Mr. John Hogan, Secretary...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: Is the Deputy suggesting we should seek a breakdown of where the money goes?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: We might put that in our work programme if members agree.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: It is coming this way.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: Slowly. No. R1460 is correspondence from Ms Mary Hurley, Secretary General, Department of Rural and Community Development, dated 15 September 2022, providing information requested by the committee regarding Benefacts. We considered correspondence relating to Benefacts from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the CSO last week and agreed to request additional information...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: We will publish the correspondence. The service that was provided seemed to be very useful and that has been acknowledged not only by committee members. In the correspondence we got last week, we could see the relatively small amount of money involved. That piece of correspondence will be published. No. 1462 is on behalf of the Secretary General of the Department of Agriculture, Food...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: It is agreed to note and publish that item of correspondence. The next item is No. 1466 from Mr. Mark Griffin, Secretary General of the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. It is dated 15 September 2022 and provides an update requested by the committee regarding recommendations in a report on the examination of the 2019 and 2020 appropriation accounts for Vote 29 -...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: I thank the Deputy for that. In the response received from the Secretary General, he sets out that it should be noted that in July, the Dáil passed a Supplementary Estimate for the Department to allocate €200 million to a new subhead, B13, in the energy transformation programme area to fund the purchase by EirGrid of additional temporary generation capacity, which included a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: It is just that it is a pity to see €40 million coming out of the retrofit fund.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Brian Stanley: It is regrettable.