Results 13,501-13,520 of 20,099 for speaker:Brian Stanley
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021) Brian Stanley: I thank the Comptroller and Auditor General and ask the Secretary General, Mr. Griffin, to make his opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021) Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. Griffin. We move now to the committee members. The lead speaker today is Deputy Catherine Murphy, who has 15 minutes. Deputy Neasa Hourigan has ten minutes and each member after that will have five minutes. I ask members to co-operate as this is the first meeting we are doing remotely in respect of the witnesses. I will indicate to Deputy Murphy after 12 minutes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021) Brian Stanley: Will Deputy Murphy direct her question to a specific witness?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021) Brian Stanley: There are three minutes left.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021) Brian Stanley: The Deputy has one minute left.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021) Brian Stanley: The Deputy's time is up.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021) Brian Stanley: Deputy Devlin is next and he has five minutes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021) Brian Stanley: The Deputy's time is up.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021) Brian Stanley: I will let the Deputy back in for a second round. It is just that we have gone way over time.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021) Brian Stanley: It will have to be very brief because we are over time.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021) Brian Stanley: Deputy Murphy has one minute left.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021) Brian Stanley: The time is up.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021) Brian Stanley: I call Deputy Dillon.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021) Brian Stanley: Will the Deputy unmute his microphone? His microphone is muted.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021) Brian Stanley: The Deputy has half a minute left.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021) Brian Stanley: We are going over time. I will try to let Deputy Carthy back in later.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021) Brian Stanley: I have a couple of questions. In respect of An Post, I compliment the company. I was my party's spokesperson on communications a few years ago and the company was in deep bother at that time. It has had to carry out a transition very quickly and get itself into shape, so I compliment everybody involved. There is good employment for my area of Portlaoise and the wider County Laois at the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021) Brian Stanley: Given the time constraints, I ask Mr. Griffin to revert to me afterwards specifically on those two sites. They have been power generation centres for more than half a century and are ideally located. It is important that the State captures and makes use of that and they are used as part of the whole new infrastructure needed in the midlands for renewable energy. Perhaps Mr. Griffin will...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021) Brian Stanley: The extra €105 million for Bord na Móna is welcome, by the way. Broadband connection points were dealt with earlier. There were to be 300 such connection points. As I understand from reports, the first group of 50 has been connected. That is all that has been connected. There are 51 connection points at the moment. The Department, in reply to a media query, stated the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021) Brian Stanley: We have missed a big target here.