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- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022) Brian Stanley: And rightly so. What happens after that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022) Brian Stanley: Absolutely.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022) Brian Stanley: Some 60 social workers left Tusla between January 2021 and July 2021. Ten went on career breaks, 20 went to new job opportunities, 13 went to other health agencies and more than 21 cited personal reasons for leaving. Around 33 social workers moved on to other jobs. It is obviously very challenging work.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022) Brian Stanley: Apologies for rushing Mr. McCarthy. I ask the Department to come back to us with information on the current pipeline.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022) Brian Stanley: I appreciate that. It is daunting for a young social worker who has just finished university and is recently qualified to be handed the work of two people. The social workers do not stay in the job, which compounds the problem. It is a similar story in other areas of the health service. Unless we can give people a normal workload, we will not retain them. We do not build up the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022) Brian Stanley: It is also important that they have the same social worker. If a child's social worker changes, it causes problems. I thank the witnesses from the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform for joining us today, and the staff in the Departments who were involved in preparing for the meeting. I also wish to thank...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)
Brian Stanley: The business before us this afternoon includes approval of the minutes, accounts and financial statements, correspondence, our work programme, and any other business. The first item is the minutes of our meeting of 26 May, which have been circulated to members. Does any member wish to raise any matter relating to those minutes? No. Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. As usual, they will...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)
Brian Stanley: In regard to Limerick and Clare ETB, there were six recommendations and five of them were highlighted. Is the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General satisfied those five recommendations relating to non-compliant procurement have been implemented?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)
Brian Stanley: Okay. It involves €1.58 million of public procurement. It relates to some stuff that is seen in the other ETBs, such as bus hire and so on, while some of it relates to Covid, such as Perspex screens.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)
Brian Stanley: Okay. Is it agreed we note the accounts and statements? Agreed. As usual, the listing of accounts and financial statements will be published as part of our minutes. Representatives of the Department of Health recently appeared before the committee. There have been reports in the media that I want to address as Chairman of the committee. We are told there are recordings of a senior...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)
Brian Stanley: I am not very touchy about anything, and it does not matter who is sitting on these benches now or in the future, but members of the Committee of Public Accounts should not be referred to in that manner. The Department needs to clarify whether it happened, and if it did, the Secretary General should outline his view on that. We will request an apology to the committee if it did happen. ...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)
Brian Stanley: In fairness, the previous paragraph tells us that the Department manages all elements of the contract governance and that it currently has a core team of 25 which is augmented by 20 specialists for external services. That gives us an indication that around 20 would be needed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)
Brian Stanley: Does Deputy Murphy want to know the disciplines, whether we are talking about technical posts for people with engineering backgrounds and so on?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)
Brian Stanley: If that is agreed, we will look for that information from the Secretary General, Mr. Mark Griffin. The next item is No. 1266B from Mr. Denis Duggan, CEO of Horse Sport Ireland, dated 25 May 2022, providing information requested by the committee regarding the proposed relocation of a Horse Sport Ireland facility to Greenogue in Dublin. In terms of the application of procurement rules, a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)
Brian Stanley: Where did it move from?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)
Brian Stanley: How much of the 30 acres is sterilised for a road corridor?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)
Brian Stanley: I have a suggestion to make. If we write to Mr. Brendan Gleeson, the Secretary General of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, it is likely that he will say it is not a matter for the Department because Horse Sport Ireland is an independent body. However, Deputy Murphy is correct in saying that the bulk of the organisation's funding comes from the Department. We should write...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)
Brian Stanley: Yes. We must also ask a question as to whether there is a condition in the lease relating to competitive activities. Deputy Murphy mentioned that no competitive activity can take place on the site. It seems odd that a body such as Horse Sport Ireland would acquire a site that would rule that out. Maybe that is not the purpose of this. My understanding is that there are number of these...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)
Brian Stanley: Has it some role in breeding?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)
Brian Stanley: I will try to draw this together. It is proposed that we write to Mr. Duggan and Cc Brendan Gleeson, highlighting the four or five concerns we have just outlined and asking for a copy of the business case for this piece to be supplied to the committee. Is that agreeable? Okay. That may illuminate the matter for us. The next item is No. 1269B, from Robert Watt, Secretary General,...