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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (7 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: Does anyone wish to raise an issue around the Comptroller and Auditor General's report and those accounts?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (7 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: Some of those will be addressed as part of the six early invites. Perhaps Mr. McCarthy will recap on the four Votes whose non-compliant procurement was in excess of €5 million each.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (7 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: Those matters have been flagged as substantial. I call on members to keep an eye on this matter. We must keep those in our programme, going forward.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (7 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: We will have representatives of that Department in early course.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (7 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: We need to work those consultations into the programme. We will be reviewing this again in another six weeks, at the end of November or the start of December. We will be setting out a programme for the remainder of the year and into January. Can we agree the statements of accounts? Agreed. I thank Mr. McCarthy. The next item is correspondence. I want to change the order because...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (7 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Deputy. In fairness, the five bullet points are set out at the bottom of the correspondence.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (7 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: The proposal is clear that we should write to the various Departments and funding bodies that provide the funding to An Taisce for the different projects. We can proceed with that. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (7 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: It is no problem. Category B is correspondence from Accounting Officers and Ministers in following up to the Committee of Public Accounts. No items of correspondence have been flagged under this category but I mention No. 804 from Dundalk Institute of Technology, dated 24 September, and No. 809 from Údarás na Gaeltachta, dated 28 September 2021. Both responses arise from...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (7 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: I know the Deputy was in the Chamber and probably missed the first part of the meeting. Representatives from the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media will be coming before us.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (7 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: It is one of the matters flagged in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report. It has also been flagged by members of the committee. I hope that will be an opportunity to examine the matter further. We will adjourn until next Thursday when the committee will examine the 2020 appropriation accounts of the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (7 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: 84. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress that is being made regarding the terms and conditions for community employment supervisors, particularly regarding their demand for a pension scheme. [45187/21]

Energy Prices: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the opportunity to speak to the motion and thank People Before Profit for bringing it forward. Families and workers in the midlands and across Laois and Offaly must contend with increased fuel costs and the worry of how to keep the heating and lights on this winter. Our region in particular will be hit hard. Unfortunately, the Government continues to implement proposals that...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Sep 2021)

Brian Stanley: All are very welcome to the meeting. Apologies have been received from Deputy Hourigan. Deputy Carroll MacNeill will join us later. The Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, is a permanent witness to the committee and he is attending remotely. As we return to participating in committee meetings in person, I ask members and all in attendance to exercise personal...

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statement 2020 and Special Report 111 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (30 Sep 2021)

Brian Stanley: We will engage with witnesses from the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, this morning. Today's meeting will focus on NAMA's financial statements 2020 and the Comptroller and Auditor General's special report 111, on NAMA's progress in the achievement of its objectives at the end of 2018. We are joined remotely from within the precincts of Leinster House by the following NAMA officials:...

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statement 2020 and Special Report 111 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (30 Sep 2021)

Brian Stanley: I ask Mr. McDonagh to make his presentation.

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statement 2020 and Special Report 111 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (30 Sep 2021)

Brian Stanley: Thank you, Mr. McDonagh. The lead speaker from the committee this morning is Deputy Sherlock. You have 15 minutes, Deputy Sherlock, and I will give you a reminder after 12 minutes.

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statement 2020 and Special Report 111 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (30 Sep 2021)

Brian Stanley: Mr. McDonagh might answer briefly, as we have gone over time.

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statement 2020 and Special Report 111 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (30 Sep 2021)

Brian Stanley: The Deputy has one minute remaining.

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statement 2020 and Special Report 111 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (30 Sep 2021)

Brian Stanley: The Deputy is over his time but I can let him back in later.

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statement 2020 and Special Report 111 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (30 Sep 2021)

Brian Stanley: The Deputy is well over his time. I can let him back in on the next round of questions.