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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

Brian Stanley: Go ahead.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

Brian Stanley: Was Mr. Caseyin situat that point? I ask because he is the chief financial officer.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

Brian Stanley: Does Deputy Murphy have a final question?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

Brian Stanley: The Deputy is happy.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

Brian Stanley: All members are happy. I thank the witnesses from the Department and from the two bodies for joining us today. I thank the staff of the HRI, the IHRB and the Department who were involved in preparing for this meeting. I thank the Comptroller and Auditor General, his colleague, Mr. Brady, and his staff for assisting at today's meeting. I also thank the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)

Brian Stanley: The business for this afternoon is as follows: minutes, accounts and financial statements, correspondence, work programme and any other business. The first item is minutes from the meeting dated 15 September 2022, which have been circulated to members. Do members wish to raise any matters in relation to the minutes? Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. As usual they will be published on the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)

Brian Stanley: That is good. Does any member wish to raise any issues around this?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)

Brian Stanley: It is good to see that it will be coming, and that no issues are being raised, particularly in bodies where maybe in the past they were not as tip top as they are now.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)

Brian Stanley: It shows that the system works.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)

Brian Stanley: The Comptroller and Auditor General’s office and the Committee of Public Accounts keep an eye on all that. As usual, accounts and financial statements will be published on the committee’s web page as part of our minutes. The third item is correspondence. As previously agreed, items that were not flagged for discussion for this meeting will continue to be dealt with in...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)

Brian Stanley: We have one more item to go through first. The other item is from Deputy Catherine Murphy, which includes a related proposal. She can speak to that item, which is number R1367. She flagged it for discussion.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Deputy for that. I was looking at the correspondence from the CSO last night, which raises a number of issues. It states clearly that a significant source of information and data for the national accounts and statistics had greatly improved the quality of information on the non-profit sector that had been included in these results. It goes on to say that, in general, compilers...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)

Brian Stanley: We need to do it again. Our last meeting with the Department was not satisfactory.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)

Brian Stanley: It was.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)

Brian Stanley: Is it agreed that we will follow up on that letter and request that information regarding this matter?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)

Brian Stanley: Yes. It is agreed to proceed with that. The next item of correspondence is No. 1410B from Mr. Brendan Gleeson, Secretary General of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. It is dated 25 August 2022 and provides information requested by the committee on the digitising of records of the Irish Land Commission. It is proposed to note and publish this item of correspondence. Is...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)

Brian Stanley: It has not been decided. It states: "For now, the Department will remain focussed on finding the best way to digitise the search/finding aids for the ILC [Irish Land Commission] records with a view to preserving the integrity of the collection and making the search aids electronically available to the public as a first step."

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)

Brian Stanley: They are stored in a building in Portlaoise at the moment. We hope that they are in safe keeping. One of the particularly important issues that is coming up is the issue of bog plots, that is, turf plots on bogs. They are recorded on many of these documents. A lot of the original turbary rights and the folios recording them derive from the division of the old estates through the Irish...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)

Brian Stanley: Where is it housed?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)

Brian Stanley: That would be great. The next item of correspondence is No. 1426B from Mr. David Moloney, Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, dated 31 August 2022 and providing information requested by the committee regarding the status of the business case for the relocation of the National Maternity Hospital. Deputy Munster has flagged this for discussion. If the...