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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: No. 1157B, from Ms Vivienne Flood, head of public affairs, RTÉ, is dated 25 March and provides information requested by the committee arising from our meeting with RTÉ on 20 January. It includes information on the top earners and the RTÉ Player. Is it agreed to note and publish this correspondence? Agreed. It was flagged for discussion by Deputies Carthy, Catherine Murphy...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: Is everybody else okay? Sorry, Deputy Munster. I have got used to looking at the rest of the Members in the room, do you see? You are the odd one out at the moment.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: We have correspondence on that which we will come to.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: Deputy, could you just hold that? I want to be fair to the committee members. The issue you raise is very important, and I concur with what you say about the matter and its importance and that the workers should get what is rightfully due to them, but we are dealing with No. 1157B now. If you can bear with us, Deputy Munster, the correspondence relating to the matter you raise is just a...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: No. 1161B is correspondence from Mr. David Moloney, Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, dated 29 March, providing information requested by the committee regarding the decision to stop funding the Benefacts database. It concerned the non-profit sector, which is reported to receive €7 billion in public funding each year. The proposed action is to note...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: We will ask for clarification on that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: There was discussion previously regarding whether the information from the Benefacts system would be retrieved or retained. I am not clear on what is the position in that regard. We will seek clarification on that. It has also been agreed that we will write to the Department of Rural and Community Development to ask it to set out the rationale for the decision not to fund Benefacts. Are...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: It is a relatively small amount of money. The database was useful.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: They are coming our way. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform will be appearing before us soon.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: We will seek that. We will also put it on the agenda for when the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform appears before the committee. No. 1162 is correspondence from Mr. Ken Spratt, Secretary General of the Department of Transport, dated 28 March, providing information requested by the committee arising from our meeting on 3 March. The proposed action is to note and publish. Is...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: The Department is saying, based on its figures, there is a need to have 845,000 plug-in electric cars by 2030. That figure seems optimistic, to say the least. The Deputy is proposing that the committee write to the Department of Finance.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: We will seek that information from the Department of Finance.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: No. 1164 is correspondence from Ms Marguerite Ryan, finance officer at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, dated 30 March, providing information requested by the committee arising from our meeting with the Department on 17 February. The proposed action is to note and publish. Is that agreed? Agreed. It has been flagged for discussion by Deputy Catherine Murphy.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: It is No. 1164 from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: No. 1176B is correspondence from Mr. Brendan Gleeson, Secretary General of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, dated 31 March, providing information requested by the committee regarding a legal review being undertaken by the Department in respect of the proposed relocation of a Horse Sport Ireland facility to Greenogue in Dublin. This item follows on from our consideration of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: Okay. No. 1181B is correspondence from Mr. David Moloney, Secretary General of the Government accounting unit at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, enclosing the minute of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in respect of our report on the 2019 appropriation accounts for Vote 24 - Justice and Equality and Vote 21 – Prisons. These are important items of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: We will seek answers from both. We will have DPER in before us as well. They got noted for that day. I thank Deputy Carthy. The next correspondence is No. 1195 B from Mr. Robert Watt, Secretary General, Department of Health providing the Department's response to an inquiry from the committee regarding pharmaceutical industry payments to HSE-funded healthcare organisations and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: Is that agreed? Agreed. We will move on to No. 1198 B from Mr. John McKeon, Secretary General, Department of Social Protection, dated 14 April 2022, providing information requested by the committee regarding the status of the investigation of certain workers engaged by RTÉ. The Department commits to providing an interim update later this year. The proposed action is to note and...