Results 12,001-12,020 of 20,094 for speaker:Brian Stanley

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Nov 2021)

Brian Stanley: We will request that information, along with the clarification sought by Deputy Carthy on the increase in asset value. No. 870B isfrom Mr. Ken Spratt, Secretary General, Department of Transport, dated 05 November 2021 providing information requested by the committee regarding detailed notes of expenditure. As set out in the correspondence expenditure for the MetroLink from March 2018 to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Nov 2021)

Brian Stanley: It is proposed to note and publish that correspondence. Is that agreed? Agreed. That concludes our consideration of correspondence for today. The next item on our agenda is the work programme. Last week, we agreed our work programme to the end of the year. The meeting schedule, which is reflected in the work programme circulated for today's meeting, is revised as follows: Department...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Stations (11 Nov 2021)

Brian Stanley: 60. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will approve funding for a new fire station in Rathdowney and Stradbally, County Laois. [54360/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (11 Nov 2021)

Brian Stanley: 79. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress in addressing the difficulties in retaining part-time firefighters and improving their terms and conditions. [54361/21]

Regional Transport Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2021)

Brian Stanley: The motion is about recognising the importance of regional transport and for it to be financially backed. For years, I have been calling for the construction of the Mountmellick N80 bypass. This is important regional infrastructure. It has been promised for decades with little progress. The feasibility study was completed last year. The Government needs to be ambitious about regional...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (9 Nov 2021)

Brian Stanley: 575. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists in counties Laois and Offaly, respectively, who provide services under the dental treatment services scheme. [54099/21]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2021)

Brian Stanley: Apologies have been received from Deputy Carroll MacNeill. The Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, is a permanent witness to the committee. I ask members and all in attendance to exercise personal responsibility to protect themselves and others from the risk of Covid-19, particularly with the figures increasing in the past week or so. I ask for their full co-operation in...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2021)

Brian Stanley: The first item is the minutes of the meeting of 21 October 2021, which have been circulated to members. Do any members wish to raise an issue regarding the minutes? Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. As usual, the minutes will be published on the committee's website. The second item is accounts and financial statements. We have a fairly short list in front of us today. Four financial...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2021)

Brian Stanley: I am open to clarification on this but I think that office would have been established in recent years. I do not know if any members of the committee have knowledge of that but my recollection is that this was created in the fairly recent past. However, we can add it to the list. Can we agree to note the accounts and statements?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2021)

Brian Stanley: It has been there for a bit longer than I thought. I thought it was a more recent creation. Can we note the accounts and statements? Is that agreed? Agreed. As usual, the listing of accounts and financial statements will be published as part of the minutes. Regarding the delay involving the Commission for Regulation of Utilities, I would ask the clerk to send correspondence to it...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2021)

Brian Stanley: We need to address this when the HSE appears before us because those section 38 hospitals receive in excess of €4 billion. The Comptroller and Auditor General is correct about the number of such hospitals. I just mentioned three specific ones. Information on procurement not being supplied by those section 38 institutions is very concerning. When the HSE appears before us, we need...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2021)

Brian Stanley: No. 830 is correspondence from Ms Mary Lawlor, senior communications and public affairs manager with the National Asset Management Agency, dated 18 October. It is information requested by the committee arising from our meeting with NAMA on 30 September 2021. NAMA states: Approximately 2,450 units were deemed unsuitable or were not required by local authorities at the time. Such units...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2021)

Brian Stanley: We will ask for the correspondence.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2021)

Brian Stanley: Okay. We will come back to that in a moment. I call Deputy Munster.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2021)

Brian Stanley: The letter referred to came from Revenue to RTÉ and I understand that came in correspondence from RTÉ. Do any other members wish to come in?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2021)

Brian Stanley: We share that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2021)

Brian Stanley: I share Deputy Carthy's disappointment at the fact RTÉ is not here. I will let Mr. McCarthy in in a moment but on this GDPR issue, to my mind RTÉ is free to supply the information without naming the individuals. If you just ask for general information you are liable to get very little but we should look for firm information without naming the individuals involved and that should...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2021)

Brian Stanley: Okay. I mention also the letter from the Secretary General of the Department of Social Protection, Mr. John McKeon, on 22 October. In the middle of it he says: I also understand that, separately, the Revenue Commissioners conducted an organisational tax audit of RTE (which incorporated PRSI between 2015 and 2018) resulting in approximately €953,000 being collected in respect of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2021)

Brian Stanley: On the letter from Revenue and the €1.223 million in respect of the conclusion about some individuals treated as contractors, there is a question over how many. As I recall, some 78 workers were found not to be employed properly as employees but as contractors, through the Eversheds process. There was some information in the media it related to 12 workers at the time. We should ask...