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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: We will note and publish it and we will ask the chairperson to clarify whether she believes GSOC is adequately resourced. I suggest the secretariat, when corresponding with GSOC would ask whether the commission has the figure for the number of criminal investigations in 2020. The document gives the figure of 485 for criminal investigations for 2019. I was surprised by that in a service...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: We can do that.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: Deputy Verona Murphy is next.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: We have agreed to consider what we have before us. Each member has considered what is in front of us. If there are further areas to be flagged then please do so with the clerk in a timely manner. No. 534 B from Mr. Ray Mitchell, assistant national director at the HSE, dated 28 April 2021, provides information requested by the committee in relation to SouthDoc. We will note and publish this...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: The second last paragraph of the correspondence notes that the HSE had received correspondence dated 22 April that confirms that the centre in Listowel is open for appointments since 17 and 18 April, and that the Blackpool centre will be available for appointments. It is very limited opening but we should seek clarification on that.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: What has been reopened is on a very limited basis. The service has been closed for a substantial period in Listowel and in Cork. We will follow through on that. No. 535 B from Ms Vivienne Flood, head of public affairs at RTÉ, dated 28 April 2021, provides information to the committee following the meeting on 27 April 2021. For members’ information, this is separate to the...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: Deputy Murphy is having some technical problems so, in the meantime, I call Deputy Munster.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: To be helpful to the Deputy and to clarify, RTÉ said it had received a bill and had made a settlement. The response we have today is simply a clarification on two matters that were discussed in replies given by RTÉ representatives, a clarification I have just read out for members. The list of questions on the issues raised at the meeting has been sent to RTÉ by the...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: I was hoping we would have had the figure on that day for the settlement with Revenue. We await that figure.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: Deputy Murphy had flagged this.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: Members should be aware that on 5 May a response was requested within ten working days. I suggest that when writing back to RTÉ we ask if, along with the settlement made to Revenue on foot of that, a settlement was made with workers in terms of PRSI entitlements and other benefits forgone by virtue of the fact they were not employed properly as employees and were wrongly employed as...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: The Deputy raised that with RTÉ at the meeting. We will request the information.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: We will request that along with the other information. No. 537B is from Mr. Maurice Buckley, chairman, OPW, dated 29 April 2021, providing information requested by the committee in relation to a new facility being constructed at Military Road, Kilmainham, Dublin 8 and plans for property that An Garda Síochána has vacated or is due to vacate. On Military Road, the OPW states...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: We will publish this and incorporate relevant material into the committee's draft report on its engagement with the OPW, which will be circulated next week and we will follow up on that. No. 540B is from Mr. Ray Mitchell, assistant national director, HSE, dated 29 April 2021, providing information requested by the committee in relation to the use of HSE services by Tusla. We discussed...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: We will now move on to the next category of correspondence from and related to private individuals and any other correspondence. No. 511C is from Senator Gerard Craughwell, dated 15 April 2021. He raised the matter with me some months ago and I suggested that he write to the committee. The letter is requesting that the committee review a contract for a search and rescue service that has...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: I look forward to a response to the questions we raised, particularly on the purchase of the helicopters. As I understand it — I am not an expert on this — you could be talking about a sum in the region of €125 million. It is a question of what happens to the helicopters and equipment on the renewal of a contract. It is a question we need to follow up on because there...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: No. 526C, dated 24 April 2021, is from an individual and raises further concerns regarding the use of public funding by the Irish Prison Service. We will note the item. We are awaiting a response from the Department of Justice. We requested on 15 April a response on previous related matters, namely, Nos. R0404 and R0405. A reminder was sent to the Department last week. It is proposed to...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: The Deputy is happy enough with No. 526C. The next three items are responses to parliamentary questions submitted by Deputy Catherine Murphy, who has provided them for the information of the committee. I will set them out. Although we have addressed the issues concerned, the Deputy may address them if she wishes. The first item is No. 533C, dated 27 April. It is a reply to a...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: The Deputy is happy enough with the items. They have been circulated to members for their attention. They can review them. On the work programme, the revised meeting arrangements for committees will see this committee engaging with public bodies on Thursday mornings at 9.30 a.m. We hope to have a public meeting slot for business, such as that today, at least every other week. A revised...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Comptroller and Auditor General for that information.