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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: We have had a broad discussion with many questions. I am sorry for cutting people short sometimes. Some people are online and we must try to meet the demands relating to meeting rooms, regulations and everything else. I thank the witnesses from the Department and the university. This is the first time the chancellor has been before the committee in my time as Chair. It is good to have...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: I was not.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: Ms Harney was in the battles in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: We will settle on that. I thank Ms Harney and her staff for coming and preparing for the meeting. We understand the work involved. I also thank the Comptroller and Auditor General and Mr. Kinsley, who is here with us today, for the work they have done. Is it agreed to request the clerk to seek any follow-up information and carry out any agreed actions arising from the meeting? Agreed....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: The business before us is the minutes from previous meetings, accounts and financial statements, correspondence, our work programme, and any other business. The minutes of our meeting of 5 May were circulated to members. Do members wish to raise any matters? Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. As usual, the minutes will be published on the committee's web page. No financial statements and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: The next item of correspondence is No. 1221 B, from Ms Anne Graham, chief executive of the National Transport Authority, NTA, dated 29 April, providing information requested by the committee regarding public funding of An Taisce. It is proposed to note and publish the correspondence. Is that agreed? Deputy Carthy, you have flagged this for discussion.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: We will note and publish the correspondence. The next item of correspondence is No. 1222 B, from Mr. Mark Griffin, Secretary General, the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, dated 29 April. It provides information requested by the committee regarding National Broadband Ireland's 2022 updated interim remedial plan. The plan confirms a target of 102,000 premises...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: It is important. I am certainly not a fan of the contract, but whatever powers are there need to be used because only 27,000 premises out of the original 115,000 were reached by January, and we are now moving into phase three.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: It is important we pursue the matter because Members will note that in the reply given to me in the Dáil Chamber about a year and a half ago a Minister said there were no penalties. It is important we are absolutely clear. It is the first time I have seen any document from the Department state that sanctions are accruing against non-delivery of these milestones. The importance of this...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: What is the name of the report?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: Are you suggesting that we seek clarification from the Department about what kind of process it went through?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: That is fine Deputy Murphy. The next item on our agenda is the work programme. The following engagements are confirmed for May: the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on 19 May and the Department of Health and the HSE on 26 May. Two meetings have also been confirmed in June, namely, the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth on 2 June and the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: 332. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite beds that will be available in Abbeyleix Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23944/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: 333. To ask the Minister for Health if he will raise with the HSE the reason that there are only seven of the 28 beds available being used in Abbeyleix Hospital, County Laois despite the works having been fully completed at the facility. [23948/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: 334. To ask the Minister for Health when the day care centre at Abbeyleix Hospital, County Laois will reopen to meet the huge demand for the services in the area. [23949/22]

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Public Policy Matters: Engagement with the Taoiseach (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the opportunity to address the Taoiseach on an important matter that has arisen in the Committee of Public Accounts, namely, the national broadband scheme and the failure of the national broadband plan and National Broadband Ireland, NBI, to meet the targets. We all understand there was a Covid-19 pandemic and part of the failure is down to that. We will not dispute that. There...

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Public Policy Matters: Engagement with the Taoiseach (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: National Broadband Ireland, NBI, said to us in its letter of last week that the contractors failed to achieve a number of milestones which were to be delivered in 2021. These are addressed in the updated interim remedial plan, UIRP, and sanctions are accruing with regard to non-delivery of those milestones. That is what NBI stated. That needs to be followed up on. We cannot continue to let...

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Public Policy Matters: Engagement with the Taoiseach (12 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: That is much appreciated.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the opportunity to speak to the motion. What Sinn Féin is putting forward is very important. It is part of our strategy to tackle the housing crisis by significantly increasing the number and delivery of affordable homes to buy. It is important we have that big element of home purchase in our housing programmes. That would make a massive difference to people throughout the...