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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: -----in relation to the consultation process? Individual members of the Committee of Public Accounts can make a-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: That is for sure. Okay, we will ask for that. The next category of correspondence is C, which is from----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: Sorry, Deputy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: What number is it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: I am just looking at the screen.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: Okay. That will be for next week. The next item is C, which is correspondence from private individuals. Item 1343 is for myself. It has been dated 5 July 2022. It is a request that we make inquiries with the HSE regarding the expenditure on Erkina House, Rathdowney. This follows on from the consideration of an issue raised by Deputy Hourigan last week and our agreement to hold an...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: Thank you. The final item of correspondence is 1338C, which is dated 23 June 2022. It concerns the wards of court fund. It requests that the committee examine the issue. The correspondence states that there have been substantial losses to the fund and that there is a lack of proper State oversight of the fund, which is in excess of €2 billion. While the Committee of Public...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: Okay. I call Deputy Colm Burke.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: I thank the Deputy for that. Does the Comptroller and Auditor General wish to comment?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: Which these are not under.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: We will proceed with the suggestion. Is that agreed? Agreed. The next item is the work programme, copies of which have been circulated to Members. I am sure there will not be a dull moment. Next week, on 14 July, we will meet An Bord Pleanála, and that will be our last meeting of this sitting term. Following agreement at last week's meeting, the Secretary General of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: Yes, there will be correspondence and other business.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: We then have scheduled our first public engagement, which is with Horse Racing Ireland, and we will ask a representative from the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board to attend as well. I do not know whether we should invite Horse Sport Ireland but we will bring in Horse Racing Ireland and the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board, if that is agreed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: Maybe the Deputy could think about what way we handle that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: When we are dealing with the expenditure on emergency services, I suggest we raise the issue of the National Ambulance Service with the witnesses because the two issues cannot be separated. There are real problems with the efficiency of services if ambulances are backed up outside of accident and emergency units, with patients in the ambulances for hours. That situation causes problems with...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: And Erkina House.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: The committee would have to devote a session to both of them. I do not know much about CHO 4 but I know a good bit about CHO 8. The committee would have to devote a whole meeting to that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Brian Stanley: That is right.