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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: Okay. Since no member wishes to comment, can we agree and note the accounts and statements? Agreed. As usual, the listing of accounts and financial statements will be published as part of our minutes. We will move on to correspondence. As agreed previously, items that were not flagged for discussion at the meeting will continue to be dealt with in accordance with the proposed actions...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: My sense is that it is, but I cannot say for certain.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: Yes, we could ask for clarification on that. There certainly is a wide variation in it. We can seek that clarification. No. 1207B, correspondence from Mr. Peter Walsh, chief executive, Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, dated 22 April 2022, provides further information requested by the committee arising from our meeting with TII on 3 February 2022. It is proposed to note and publish...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: Does the Deputy have a question to put to it?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: We will ask for the information.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: The project the Deputy is raising specifically is-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: Is everybody happy with that? We will note and publish the correspondence and follow-up. No. 1209 B is from Mr. Robert Watt, Secretary General of the Department of Health and is dated 25 April 2022. It provides information requested by the committee on the national children's hospital. Our first question concerned controls for delays and sanctions. While the contractual provisions are...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: With regard to the fires, when we did the site visit there this time last year I was informed that day that there had been an extraordinary number of fires on the site up to that date. We were there last June. That has continued. We will seek clarification on that and on the damages in terms of the financial cost of it. Is it in any way feeding into these claims? Is the cost of it being...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: Okay, the point has been made. We are due to have the board before the committee. I checked the work programme and it has been confirmed to me that we have corresponded with the board and that it will be before the committee on 16 June, which is approximately five weeks hence. We can try to question the board further then. In the interim, what is being proposed is that we write to the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: Keep that separate for the moment. It is just the claims-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: Under Standing Orders, we have the power to send for persons, papers and records. We have that power. We just need to confirm that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: We have to hope that the Department of Health knows at this point, there or thereabouts, what the final price is. I think we should pursue this and we should send for these records and documents. We need to just confirm first with the Committee on Procedure and Privileges in that regard and then request to do that. We should move ahead with that as quickly as possible. Is that agreed?...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: Hopefully, we can flesh out some of those issues with them next week.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: We can certainly try to use our powers. If we have to send for documents, I think we should. Let us see how it goes next week.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: We could say to them that the committee is using its powers within our Standing Orders to request it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: There will be a number of matters. It might not be that short.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: Let us see how that goes. No. 1215 B, from Mr. Hugh Creegan, deputy chief executive, National Transport Authority, NTA, dated 27 April 2022, provides further information requested by the committee in regard to DART projects and bus shelters. The transport strategy for the greater Dublin area 2022 to 2035 is being updated and is due to be finalised this year. I propose that we request...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: The NTA also furnished the information I requested in regard to bus shelters. That concludes our discussion of correspondence. Moving to our work programme, the following engagements are confirmed for May: the University of Limerick next Thursday, 12 May; the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on 19 May; and the Department of Health and the HSE on 26 May. Moving to June, to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Finance
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2020
Chapter 16 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund
Audited Financial Statements of the Exchequer for 2020 (5 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: Okay. I raise the issue of the credit unions. The savings in credit unions went up by 2.8% in 2021. At the end of last year there was a surplus of €17 billion in the credit unions. I am raising this in the context of the housing crisis. The credit union movement has indicated at different times that it would like to try to help with the housing problem because it has a co-operative...