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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)
Brian Stanley: Do any members wish to comment on any of the statements? No. Can we agree to note the accounts and statements? Agreed. The accounts and financial statements will be published as part of our minutes. As usual, we will request explanation for any significant non-compliant procurements or delays in laying the accounts before the Houses of the Oireachtas. As agreed, items of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)
Brian Stanley: Both Deputies mentioned the importance of the industry. It gets in the region of €70 million a year from the public purse. There has been a long and winding road with this issue. I looked through my notes last night. Some €18 million was awarded for the integrity fund back in 2018. Twenty-five racetracks in the State were to start a programme of installing CCTV. An amount...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)
Brian Stanley: Okay, I thank the Deputy. It is fair to say that given they have been meeting since 2018, the OPW is, from what we have seen so far, not in a very strong position legally. It is depending on the goodwill of the landlord here, and hopefully that will be forthcoming. I understand the landlord may have other properties rented out to the State. No. 668 is correspondence from Ms Vivienne...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)
Brian Stanley: Okay. Deputy Carthy?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)
Brian Stanley: Obviously Revenue cannot disclose it but RTÉ can voluntarily disclose it to us and it should do so. I ask for that to be followed up on. I raise with the committee that we questioned the cost of retrospective PRSI payments to employees who were wrongly classified as self-employed. The answer to question 2 in the correspondence dated 18 June says: The cost of any retrospective PRSI...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)
Brian Stanley: Deputy Munster wants to come in there as well.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)
Brian Stanley: The proposal is that we write back to RTÉ. There are three issues to be addressed and I will deal with the final one first. It relates to parity of pay for Irish-speaking workers at Raidió na Gaeltachta and the aspect the Deputy raised. The proposal is that the clerk to the committee will remind RTÉ of the section of the Official Report that concerns the offer being made to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)
Brian Stanley: The second issue relates to forwarding to RTÉ the letter from Revenue. The proposal is that we ask the broadcaster to disclose voluntarily the nature and amount of the settlement with Revenue regarding workers being wrongly classified as self-employed. Finally, the third proposal is that we ask RTÉ that when it has concluded its process regarding retrospective liabilities in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)
Brian Stanley: There was a sum of €24 million in total, and according to the correspondence, €14 million of the €15 million from the Department was drawn down. Is there any indication of whether capital assets were purchased with any of the money? The correspondence also points to a range of governance systems and procedures to oversee the project. That is fine and well, but neither...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)
Brian Stanley: On capital assets, infrastructure or anything else physical, is Mr. McCarthy aware of any-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)
Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. McCarthy. That is helpful.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)
Brian Stanley: What does the Deputy propose?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)
Brian Stanley: The Deputy is proposing we write to the Secretary General of the Department, asking those questions.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)
Brian Stanley: There are two proposals. One is that a letter go to the Department, as outlined by Deputy Murphy. Is that agreed? Agreed. The other proposal is we write back to both councils, asking whether there are any tangible assets or physical assets of Galway 2020, and whether they are happy with how the project has proceeded so far. Is that agreed? Agreed. The next item of correspondence is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)
Brian Stanley: I note that GSOC advised the committee in correspondence on 21 April that its investigation was in its final stages and would conclude shortly. I take on board the Deputy’s point that it has been dragging on for a long time. However, we also discussed the issues of the lack of resources of GSOC and we decided at a recent meeting to raise this issue and to try to highlight the fact it...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)
Brian Stanley: That is what we will decide. I suggest we take the time to read the correspondence. I have read the cover letter. As I said, it was circulated late yesterday and the first sight I had of it was this morning. As Chair of the committee, I want to read it first as there may be useful information in it. I also think, given it is a time-sensitive issue, that we should advise the correspondent...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)
Brian Stanley: I am sorry. Please go ahead.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)
Brian Stanley: Deputy Murphy is correct. The Committee of Public Accounts is not a disinterested party. We should be very interested in this. Good work has been done by the previous Committee of Public Accounts on this. Before any decision is made about anything I would like the opportunity to read the correspondence. I certainly want to read the detail in it. On flicking through, there appear to be a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)
Brian Stanley: I thank Deputy Murphy. Deputy Carroll MacNeill is not in attendance as far as I can see from the screen. As referred to by Deputy Murphy, the project is expected to achieve a starting cost rental of €1,200 per month, which is a significant discount on rents of circa €2,000 per month for a comparable two-bedroom home in the same area, but it is still coming in fairly high....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)
Brian Stanley: My concern is we are facing a pensions time bomb, and with the housing situation we are facing a pensioner-renter time bomb. Pensioners are not going to be able to afford the rents that are demanded in the private sector. The rents for these cost rental schemes would be too high even for a couple where there are two pensions. Where one pensioner might end up living alone, it would be...