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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...

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

Brian Stanley: What they are saying is that they are reluctant to provide a series of interim updates relating to decisions made on appeal but they can provide a more comprehensive update - one interim update is what they state - later this year.

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

Brian Stanley: I suggest, with the committee's agreement, that we ask RTÉ to clarify whether each of the cases of all those who were employed on a contract basis was examined in terms of whether it had the correct status as being self-employed contractors or were they more rightfully employed as employees. I suggest that we seek that clarification as to whether the case of each person who is employed...

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

Brian Stanley: It is a different question. I am asking whether each case of a worker who works for RTÉ on a self-employed or contract basis, not a certain section of them but each and every one of them, examined to see if it was correctly categorised.

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

Brian Stanley: We note and publish that. The next item of correspondence is No. 1200 B from Ms Clíodhna Guy, interim chief executive officer of the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board, dated 14 April 2022 responding to the committee’s request to clarify the timeframe for the installation of CCTV cameras at racecourses. The proposed action is to note and publish this. It is flagged by Deputy...

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

Brian Stanley: It states that it is progressing to installation stage.

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

Brian Stanley: The project is planned to be completed by mid-autumn.

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

Brian Stanley: Okay.

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

Brian Stanley: It has been pushed further out again. It is very frustrating. The Deputy is suggesting that at the half-year point - at the end of June - we look for an update.

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

Brian Stanley: Okay.

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

Brian Stanley: Yes.

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

Brian Stanley: This has gone on for a long time. We will keep an eye on the matter because this is the first time I have seen a projected completion time, which is mid-autumn. We will watch this carefully. I thank the Deputy. The next category is correspondence from private individuals and any other correspondence. No. 1155C is correspondence, dated 29 March 2022, from an individual requesting that...

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

Brian Stanley: Contracts to the value of just over €54 million have been signed.

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

Brian Stanley: There is the car park and the pharmacy extension. We will seek answers on this.

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

Brian Stanley: As to who will control it.