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Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...the conversation we just had regarding training for people in employment, I am mindful of the fact that there is talk of us being in full employment. We are not in full employment. Approximately 5% of the population are still unemployed. On National Training Fund spending by grantees, we have had a discussion on the need for greater monitoring of outcomes. It is not just about the...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...to get people, who are a captive audience so to speak, from unemployment into employment or better skilled. There has been a reduction in the fund for training people for employment, from €212 million to €130 million, and Springboard funding has gone from €22 million down to €10 million. Again, are opportunities being lost there? Is there a kind of acceptance...

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...about here. By any stretch of the imagination and in normal circumstances, even if it is full of rushes, when the value of that land is totted up, we are looking at a value of somewhere between €5 million and €7 million for that portfolio of properties. Here we have a situation where it is sold for this amount. We know that National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, staff and...

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Brian Stanley: -----and then you are talking about between €5 million and €7 million.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funding (22 Jun 2023)

Brian Stanley: Before I move to the next speaker I want to go back to the question asked by Deputy Kelly regarding funding from the Adare Manor facility in parallel with the €58 million expected to be put in by the public purse. Did the Department set out any criteria with regard to 20%, 30% or 40% matching funding? For every €10 going in from the taxpayer perhaps there might be €3,...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023)

Brian Stanley: I know that. I do not want you to put the final price on it because, obviously, it will be going to tender, but is it €5 million, €100 million?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...the building, but that was not done. We are also told that an estimate was given to the governing authority on the night the decision had to be made in a hurry that a new building would cost €27 million, based on the scale of what was envisaged. The word used was a "cleared" site. Is that not correct? We know there is no engineer's report. We know the asbestos was not...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: Am I correct in saying that a valuation was got from a Mr. Tom Crosse of GVM Auctioneers that valued the building at no more than €5 million? Is that correct, "Yes" or "No"?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: We have established that there was a valuation, because the witnesses are not able to deny that there was, which stated the building was worth no more than €5 million. The witnesses are not able to say that it was presented to the governing authority, so we have to take it that it was not presented to the governing authority. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: This site was bought for more than the valuation, which the university eventually got and put its value at no more than €5 million. We are four years on, yet the university is not sure about who will partner with it and pony up the money, what amount will be required – even a ballpark figure – and whether the university will have enough for the upgrade. It is incredible...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Chapter 14 - Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies (Resumed)
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021 (Resumed)
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (Resumed) (20 Apr 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...Insurance and what has happened since, nobody can tell the committee or the public how much was in reserves with Quinn Insurance at that time. Can anybody guess? Can anybody even estimate? Was it €100 million? Was it less than €100 million? Was it €500 million? Was it €5 million? Can the Comptroller and Auditor General shed any light on this?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...report details an occurrence whereby there was a failure of controls over the withdrawal of money from the Central Fund on 28 October 2022, when the Central Bank issued to the Minister for Finance €738 million more than the amount of credit available to him to fund the delivery of supply services. We could add that to the agenda for an engagement. There are a number of hoops that...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 19 - Exchequer receipts from National Lottery ticket sales (8 Dec 2022)

Brian Stanley: ...". I looked at this, starting off with the ticket sales. We took the year 2021 and also looked back over a number of years. What actually goes back into good causes works out between 27% and 28.5%. In 2021, the national lottery had ticket sales of more than €1 billion. When the prizes are taken out, the figure is nearly €600 million. The gaming revenue is left, which is...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: We have a population in this State of just over 5 million.

Childcare Fees: Motion [Private Members] (5 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: ...wages are the issue. Our motion proposes to cut childcare fees by 66% over two years. It would also ensure that staff in the sector are paid at least a living wage. We are talking about staff who have level 5 and level 6 qualifications. They are entitled to a living wage. Wages in the sector need to be increased urgently. We understand that cannot be done by waving a magic wand...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Feb 2022)

Brian Stanley: At present, there are 818 claims where there is a claimed value of €432.9 million. There are 688 of them where there are notices of dissatisfaction. They are still in dispute. That figure, we have to assume, can only go upwards. It would seem to be a substantial sum. We will look for replies on that. In relation to the issue of the confirmation as to who is responsible for the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2021)

Brian Stanley: ...and arose at an earlier meeting. It is something I raised with the secretariat. I wished to get an update. Members will recall the issue of Perrigo and its settlement with Revenue for €297 million. There was a tax liability of €1.64 billion. It ended up with a write-down of approximately 84%, which was the issue other members and I were concerned about. Correspondence...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (7 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: Some of those will be addressed as part of the six early invites. Perhaps Mr. McCarthy will recap on the four Votes whose non-compliant procurement was in excess of €5 million each.

Public Accounts Committee: University of Limerick: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Jun 2021)

Brian Stanley: ...that. I have a couple of questions on property-related matters. It was reported last year, as I recall, that UL pulled out of buying a Georgian house in Ranelagh, Dublin. It was valued at €5 million. I understand UL had paid a deposit but received it back. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)

Brian Stanley: ...the position. Is Mr. Fraser aware that the secretary general of the Scottish department of health earns €173,000, when the figure is converted into euro? Scotland has a population of almost 6 million people. In Finland, which has a population of more than 5 million, the secretary general of the department there earns €131,000. The Director-General of the World Health...