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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: Once these are signed off on and done and dusted, the board should be in a position to do so.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: A further request was made for details of the baseline programme. That has issued. That was part of the follow-up to our last meeting with them. That is gone
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: It is welcome that that is happening. That concludes the correspondence. Moving on to the work programme, members have been circulated with a draft for discussion. It is displayed on their screens now. On 20 June, we will engage with the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board, IHRB, and Horse Racing Ireland, HRI, in respect of their respective 2022 financial statements. Representatives...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: That is okay. Hold your fire for a minute. I did not see the programme the Deputy is going to talk about but I heard about it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: On 27 June, we will engage with the RSA regarding its 2022 financial statements and the following areas of interest: road safety statistics and performance metrics; outcomes from the expenditure in the accounts; vehicle testing; driver testing; the issuing of driver's licences; and GDPR issues that arise in providing accident information to local authorities, which is one that is a bit of a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: There could be, so we may decide to get a legal briefing before we hold the meeting. It might be no harm to do so. Is the Deputy happy enough with that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: The representatives of the organisations have been invited and they are coming in. This matter will come up. How will deal with it and talk to it-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: We are running up towards t the end of this term, if not the end of this Dáil. In any event, we have to make provision for the autumn and that we will be here.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: No, I do not. I am reading the body language around this place. The Deputy was talking about extra seats in the Dáil Chamber and new chairs being put in, so I can see we are getting ready.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: We cannot all be up at the same time. Based on previous discussions we had, I will make suggestions for September. One is to bring in representatives of Uisce Éireann. Its accounts should be laid before the committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: The University of Limerick is another body of interest. Turning to RTÉ, while we are out of the period of compellability, we can bring in its representatives on the basis on which we have brought them in before if members wish to do so? Would Deputy Murphy like to comment on this aspect? The organisation will report to us in June on the progress made in implementing the 21...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: Is the Deputy talking about those on the list?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: There will be a meeting with the Department of House, Local Government and Heritage.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: That is potentially four parties appearing before the committee, or five if we go with the RTÉ meeting as well. In relation to horse racing, we can discuss the overall processes but matters that have been referred to the Garda are out of our remit. Current expenditure is also outside it until the 2023 and 2024 accounts are audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General. As is normal,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: Something normally does pop up over the summer.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: I propose that the secretariat circulate the autumn work programme and the suggestions made regarding it ahead of next week's meeting. Do the members have any other suggestions for meetings or to bring to the notice of the secretariat? As we have done in the past few years, I have a proposal for our first meeting when we come back after the recess. We return on a Wednesday, so we would be...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: The National Ploughing Championships are on that week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: I hope it will be drier than last year. It is also proposed that we schedule a meeting with Uisce Éireann as a matter of priority. We will do that. That concludes today's consideration of the work programme. Since there is no other business for the public agenda and everybody is happy, the committee will now go into private session briefly before adjourning until 9.30 a.m. on...