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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: I ask members to wait until I go through them. If they want to add anything, I will let them back in.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: Go ahead.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: On a separate day.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: That is fair enough.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: I thank the Deputy for that information. Following that, we will engage with the HSE to examine expenditure on mental health services. We may hold another meeting with the HSE to focus on expenditure on emergency services, in particular ambulance services. I suggest we firm up this. We definitely need to do an examination with the HSE of expenditure on emergency and ambulance services...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: We have not received a response that gives us clarity. That is my memory of it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: Do members wish to restrict the meeting to the HSE? We can have the Department in with it. Another option would be to include other bodies that are accountable to the committee and have responsibility for emergency services. If that is preferable I will ask the secretariat to put together a proposal for consideration. It is up to members how we proceed with this. My feeling is that the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: There is no problem-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: I thought the Deputy wanted it dealt with by means of correspondence. If it is not answered by the date of the meeting, I have no problem with it being raised as a specific issue. That will take five minutes. It is an answer we have been trying to get for a while. I hope we will not need to raise it and that there will be clarity by way of correspondence before then. The National...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: Do we want to bring in the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board in between? Perhaps we can take the other two and see how we go.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: I take it that the wish of the committee is to leave the children's hospital and see how things pan out with regard to responses to our queries.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: We will have it on the programme as an item for definite discussion.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: We can see how things pan out.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: Absolutely. That is useful. As mentioned, if the committee is agreeable, I suggest adding to the work programme for the autumn further engagement with the SEAI. A great deal is happening with retrofits and energy upgrades. A lot of money is involved. It is a growth industry and the State is playing a big part in it. This is all good but we need to have a look at it to see what is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: I have it scribbled down here.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: That was the other one I mentioned last week. I thank the Deputy. As discussed last week, we are looking to plan ahead. As members are aware, the Comptroller and Auditor General's 2021 report on accounts for public services will be available to us at the end of September. We might want to prioritise further areas for examination once we have sight of it. Do members wish to raise any...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: I suggest the Comptroller and Auditor General might come back to us with a note on this or with some information on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: Is that okay?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: That concludes the consideration of the work programme. We will continue with the practice of trying to schedule matters well ahead of people coming before us because it allows the secretariat to be able to line up people. Sometimes witnesses say they are not available or it does not suit them. Body A might not be able to come in on a certain day but we could move to body B. It is useful...