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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: We will seek answers to those initial questions, in any event. I agree that work needs to be carried out. To return to the correspondence relating to the national paediatric hospital, there was a substantive response, which members will see in their copy of the correspondence, from the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board in December, namely, No. R0974. I agree the response...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: The paragraph that caught my eye was the pay dispute and the difficulties this is causing for GSOC. Aileen Healy, the director of administration in GSOC stated: "We have been informed that, since July 2021, as result of a dispute over pay and allowances, some senior Garda officers have withdrawn from work they consider outside their core duties." The question arises as to whether some Garda...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: We can get that from the Secretary General, who will be the most accountable officer to the committee.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: The Deputy is happy enough with that. When I see the term "consider outside their core duties", I am a little concerned about that and whether people are defining what are core duties and what are not. We will seek the Secretary General's take on it, and GSOC. Deputy Carthy wants to come in on that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: We have our work programme for early March, and we have not formally engaged yet. We will ask the secretariat to formally notify them of our intentions and try to have that engagement at the earliest opportunity. No. 975B from Ms Orlaigh Quinn, Secretary General, Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, dated 15 December 2021, responds to a request for information regarding the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: That is okay. No. 978B from Mr. Graham Doyle, Secretary General, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, dated 16 December 2021, provides information requested by the committee on the funding of An Taisce. We have requested similar information from 11 bodies and have now received all of the responses. It is proposed to note and publish this item and to consider the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: I know it is of particular interest to the Deputy. I believe that the figure I see for 2021 is €710,000.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: Go ahead.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: No. 978B.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: Yes, go ahead.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: I ask the Deputy to clarify his proposal.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: That is clear. Is the committee agreed that we will seek that clarification and further information relating to Circular 13/2014? Agreed. The next item of correspondence is No. 980B from Mr. Ken Spratt, Secretary General at the Department of Transport, dated 16 December, providing information requested by the Committee of Public Accounts relating to non-compliant procurement. The...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: Laois did not see an enormous amount of additional jobs either. Eight new FDI jobs were created in 2019. That doubled in 2020 to 16. Offaly lost 19 jobs in 2019 and gained 43 in 2020. Some counties are doing very poorly. We will put that matter on the list of considerations for the work programme. The next item of correspondence is-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: You may. Go ahead.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: At the same time, we want to move some of the population out of Dublin and get more of them down to the midlands and up to the Border counties where there is loads of space. No. 984 is correspondence from Ms Oonagh McPhillips, Secretary General of the Department of Justice, dated 17 December 2021, providing information requested by the committee relating to an independent review of the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: The Department expects the finalised report to be completed in the first quarter of the year so we can look to be notified of that. Does Deputy Catherine Murphy want to make a brief comment?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: Okay. The next item of correspondence is No. 985, from Mr. Robert Watt, Secretary General of the Department of Health, dated 20 December, providing information requested by the committee during its last meeting of 2021 regarding the final report in phase 1 of the Farrelly commission. The Secretary General states that it is due to be completed in July. It is proposed that we note and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: Okay. The next item of correspondence is No. 988B from Mr. Martin Shanahan, chief executive of IDA Ireland, dated 20 December, providing information requested by the committee regarding the procurement of ventilators during the pandemic and associated legal costs. I ask members to bear in mind that any comments that might in any way prejudice the outcome of the legal proceedings or encroach...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: Yes, it came up at this committee last year. We can request that if it is agreed by the committee. Agreed.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: Is Deputy Catherine Murphy happy with that in light of what the Comptroller and Auditor General said about awaiting the outcome of the work he is doing and bearing the court case in mind?