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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?

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

Brian Stanley: No. 989B is from Ms Marie Mulvaney, executive assistant, TII, dated 21 December 2021, providing information regarding the agenda for our upcoming meeting with TII. With the agreement of the committee, we will consider this matter further under our work programme. For now, I propose we agree to note and publish it. Is that agreed?

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

Brian Stanley: We will be discussing the work programme during this meeting so we could leave this matter until then. Does Deputy Catherine Murphy wish to comment briefly on that?

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

Brian Stanley: No. 992B is from Mr. John Treacy, chief executive, Sport Ireland, dated 21 December 2021, providing information requested by the committee regarding compliance and governance controls relating to funding provided by Sport Ireland to Horse Sport Ireland. It is proposed to note and publish this correspondence. Is that agreed? Agreed.

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

Brian Stanley: No. 1004B is from Mr. Fergal Lynch, Secretary General at the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, dated 10 January 2022. It is an interim response regarding information requested by the Committee of Public Accounts relating to the system of direct provision. The Secretary General states that work is under way on the White Paper proposals that seek to end...

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

Brian Stanley: If we are corresponding with the IHRB, we will have to point out the previous commitments, or the previous statements at least, regarding the intended progress.

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

Brian Stanley: Yes. We can request that. There are 25 tracks. Two were not provided. It defies me as to why it is taking so long. We will seek an explanation for the delays. We will outline our concerns about the ongoing delays and ask for a timeline for putting cameras in place and the progress in that regard. No. 1008B is from Mr. Maurice Buckley, chairman, Office of Public Works, dated 12...

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

Brian Stanley: The term, "good progress has been achieved", give us hope and that we should be optimistic about it.

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

Brian Stanley: Yes, it has gone on for a long time. There is a bit of good news there, hopefully. We will move onto category C, correspondence from and related to private individuals and any other correspondence. No. 1001C is from our own Deputy Paul McAuliffe, dated 3 January 2022, and requests that the committee makes inquiries with the HSE regarding media reports that it bought a building adjoining...

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

Brian Stanley: It would be important for the Comptroller and Auditor General to do that piece of work and then revert to us.

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

Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. McCarthy. That concludes the correspondence-----

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

Brian Stanley: Go ahead.

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

Brian Stanley: Does the Deputy wish to go back to the piece of correspondence he sent in?

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

Brian Stanley: Okay. Rezoning may not be the problem but the cost might be. I thank the Deputy. We will seek that information. We will move onto the work programme. Over the next two weeks, we are scheduled to engage with the National Transport Authority, NTA, and the following week then with Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, to examine their respective financial statements for 2020. The NTA...

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

Brian Stanley: Yes.