Results 13,241-13,260 of 20,422 for speaker:Brian Stanley
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)
Brian Stanley: In the correspondence, the chief executive says: Given the complexity and challenges in reporting the above occasional/hourly staff data, the HEA is planning to meet the HEI Representative bodies in order to agree a definition of occasional staff with a view to collecting same in Q2/3 2021 and sharing this information to the committee[.] We need to see the outcome of that and hopefully we...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)
Brian Stanley: I think we agreed to do that at a previous committee meeting, so we will seek it. No. 589B follows on from our recent engagement with RTÉ. It is from Ms Dee Forbes, director general of RTÉ, dated 14 May, and provides information requested by the committee arising from the meeting of 27 April. On foot of the committee's meeting of 11 May, an additional six questions were issued...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)
Brian Stanley: One of the ways it will be disclosed, and we should not have to wait that long, will be in RTÉ's annual financial report next year. If there was a settlement made, the figure should show up in that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)
Brian Stanley: Absolutely. That is my point.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)
Brian Stanley: We can do that. I certainly do not want to wait until next year for it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)
Brian Stanley: We are not sure of the year because the only answer we got, which came at the eleventh hour, was that RTÉ had made a settlement. It is interesting that there is a parallel audit under way by the Department of Social Protection and Revenue regarding the proper classification of employees as well. That is happening. We will look for that from Revenue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)
Brian Stanley: To draw the pieces together on this matter, No. 588 from Séamus Dooley, the Irish secretary of the National Union of Journalists, NUJ, is related to this matter. It is brief, but Mr. Dooley states in his letter that he welcomes the interest of the Committee of Public Accounts in the issue of bogus self-employment which has long been of concern to the NUJ, the RTÉ trade union group,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)
Brian Stanley: The secretariat will correspond on the matter with RTÉ. Separate from that, I will ask the clerk to correspond with Revenue inquiring if it has any problem around the disclosure of settlements similar to this settlement. Revenue will not want to publish the details, but we will ask if it has any problem with a body, company or entity which makes a settlement with it - in this case...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)
Brian Stanley: That would be helpful. The point made is well made. While there is a detailed list of what compensation was paid for, it is always interesting to see the legal breakdown and the associated legal costs quantified. I propose the clerk seeks information from Mr. McCarthy on the wording of the request to the Department on the ratio of legal fees. The next item is correspondence No. 591B...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)
Brian Stanley: There should not be any problem with that. Deputies Verona Murphy, MacSharry, Carroll MacNeill and I are the four representatives. I am confident that we will keep our eye on that ball. I am happy to report to members that from my conversations with some members of the finance committee, including the Cathaoirleach, they are anxious to examine this matter fully and thoroughly, and to get...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)
Brian Stanley: The Deputy is happy enough. Correspondence No. 594B, from the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach, dated 19 May, encloses correspondence from the Minister of Public Expenditure and Reform detailing the information before it. As discussed, the Minister is scheduled to appear before the committee on 16 June. We note and publish that item. I wanted to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)
Brian Stanley: We will ask for that to be included. I thank the Deputy for that. No. 553B, dated 4 May 2021, is from the European Anti-Fraud Office, OLAF, and concerns its investigation into the so-called "Cabra accounts". OLAF states it is not in a position to provide any additional information concerning the results of its investigation so as not to prejudice any potential follow-up at national...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)
Brian Stanley: We will do that. I thank Deputy Carthy. The next correspondence is No. 565B. I propose that we take No. 592B along with this because they both relate to the same matter. No. 565B, dated 7 May 2021, is from Mr. Denis Egan, chief executive of the Irish Horse Racing Regulatory Board, IHRB, and provides information requested by the committee on CCTV. At our meeting last week, we agreed to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)
Brian Stanley: We received a reply to question 17 that was put to the organisation. The reply says that at the meeting of 1 February the board of Horse Racing Ireland approved funding for the installation of CCTV cameras at all 26 racecourses. HRI confirmed that the tender documents were published on etenders.gov.ie on the week beginning 3 May 2021 with a response deadline of 9 June 2021. The IHRB is the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)
Brian Stanley: I will bring in Mr. McCarthy at this point.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)
Brian Stanley: I hope we will have them before the board is due to come before the committee. Obviously, it depends on the report the board is supposed to be working on with the Department of Health. We will have the board in for a session to try to get to the bottom of some of this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)
Brian Stanley: The letter reads: I am happy to report to the Committee that the NPHDB has reached agreement with the main contractor that a period of moratorium on claims will apply. This will be in place until June 2021. We will take that to mean 1 June. The letter continues, "The moratorium applies to conciliations and adjudications and High Court proceedings." I thank Deputy Hourigan for...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)
Brian Stanley: The Deputy is happy enough if it goes there. No. 586C is correspondence from Mr. Seamus Dooley, secretary of the National Union of Journalists. We have dealt with this. Would anyone like to add anything further? The final item is No. 602C, correspondence from Deputy MacSharry, dated 19 May 2021. The Deputy requests that the committee consider including Cork Institute of Technology,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)
Brian Stanley: Does the Deputy know the timeline for the changeover? Has the amalgamation gone through?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)
Brian Stanley: I thank the Deputy for that information.