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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: Yesterday, I heard the news that one orchestra will be transferred from RTÉ. What is the total debt combined for RTÉ at the moment?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: Is that the sum total?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: I have a question on the centenary coverage for Ms Forbes. By and large, there was some good coverage and the programme was informative, particularly for a young audience. There was fairly balanced coverage but I have two little criticisms. First, on the re-enactment of the media coverage around the signing of the treaty, I query the setting. Mr. David McCullagh did very well but he was in...

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

Brian Stanley: The business before us today includes minutes, correspondence, the work programme and any other business. We will go into private session before adjourning. The first item is the minutes of the meeting from 16 December, which have been circulated to members. Do members wish to raise any matters relating to those minutes? If not, are the minutes agreed? Agreed. As usual, the minutes will...

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

Brian Stanley: Does Deputy Carthy want to keep his powder dry as well or speak to this now? I am not sure if he is on the call. I have a similar perspective. There is much information in this and we will have representatives from the NTA before us, with representatives from TII in the following week. It would be better to deal with some of the points in it then. We will send a response to the...

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

Brian Stanley: We will have representatives from the NTA next week and from TII the following week, along with people from the Department. Is the Deputy happy enough to leave his point until then?

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

Brian Stanley: Go ahead.

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

Brian Stanley: On the final point, that target of more than 600,000 cars will have to be reached within the next seven years. It will involve about 80,000 or 90,000 electric cars being sold each year.

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

Brian Stanley: I was referring to the overall average. In County Laois, only 210 electric vehicles were purchased last year, while the figure for County Offaly was 167 and that of County Monaghan was low as well. I suggest we write to the Department of Transport to highlight the point. The difference between the number sold in Dublin compared with that in the more rural counties jumped out to me as well....

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.