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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: The meeting should be fairly short this afternoon in any case. I am sorry I did not see Deputy Devlin wanted to speak. I call on Mr. McCarthy to proceed.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: Could we agree to note the accounts and financial statements? Agreed. They will be published as part of our minutes. No. 3 is correspondence. There are two items to be addressed this week. The first category of correspondence is from Accounting Officers and Ministers and follow-up to meetings of the Committee of Public Accounts. No. 817 B is from Dr. Alan Wall, chief executive officer...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: We have the HEA response, which I read yesterday. It refers to the courses being "for the professional development of academics or technical professionals employed by the state, state related entities or regulatory bodies". That is the part that caught my eye. What we are talking about is the professional development of academics or technical professionals employed in a professional...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: Yes. Presumably the courses in the sector are provided in the area of energy. The letter goes on to state: As per our correspondence of 17 June, and with reference to the correspondence from the Committee, the HEA wrote to the higher education institutions, seeking assurances that any partnerships, grants, funding or similar arrangements between publicly funded higher education...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: For the committee's information, we have sought from the HEA a registry of courses that are provided and funded or part-funded by private entities. Perhaps we will wait to see what the response is and we can then take it from there. This is a matter that we need to examine more closely. As the Committee on Public Accounts, it is public funding that we must examine, but if a company is...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: We will pursue the matter further at that point. The next category of correspondence is C, correspondence from and related to private individuals. No. 813C is dated 30 September and is a request to the committee from mise as our Chair to consider making inquiries with the Office of the Revenue Commissioners regarding the recent tax settlement with a company called Perrigo, which concerned...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: We will write to them. We will move on to our work programme. Next week, on 21 October, we are scheduled to engage with Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, on its 2020 financial statements. The Dáil is not scheduled to sit the following week, 25 to 29 October, which brings us to 4 November, when we are planning to engage with RTÉ regarding its receipt of Exchequer funding,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: If members look down the list and decide there are specific issues they wish to address with these bodies, they should let the secretariat know. The clerk will then be able to include those issues in the invitations and the bodies will be able to prepare. We must be careful to ensure that the invitations reflect what we will discuss with bodies. This has implications for the committee, but...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: We can of course. We will put the Department on the list. Under the heading of any other business, I wish to raise a matter. The Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications appeared before us at today's meeting. During that, there was a discussion with the programme manager of the national broadband plan. His broadband actually dropped; his connection collapsed in the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: It is awful. I make that proposal now and hopefully after 22 October, with Covid figures going well and everything else being equal, we will have witnesses present in the committee room. There are a couple of matters to bring to the members' attention, the first of which is our report. The secretariat will circulate a document setting out the current status in advance of the next...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: It would be useful to have.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: Should we request it? Okay. The meeting is adjourned until 9.30 a.m. on Thursday, 21 October when we will examine the 2020 financial statements of Tusla, the Child and Family Agency.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (14 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: 16. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the anticipated amount of funding that is expected to be provided to counties Laois and Offaly through the Leader programme in 2021. [49417/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (14 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: 66. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of funding that has been provided to counties Laois and Offaly through the LEADER programme in 2019 and 2020. [49416/21]

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: The Deputy should read it again.

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: It is costed by the Department of Finance.

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: The Department is telling lies, is it?

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: Government Departments are telling lies.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (13 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: 93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties students have faced in finding accommodation in 2021-2022; and the steps that can be taken to provide more suitable units for students. [49415/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (13 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: 59. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans that are being developed to increase student accommodations units for 2022-2023 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49414/21]