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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: The public business before us is as follows: minutes, accounts and statements, correspondence, consideration of a draft committee work programme, and any other business. The first item of business is the minutes of our meetings of 17 and 22 October, which have been circulated to members. Do members wish to raise any matters in relation to the minutes? No. Are the minutes agreed? Agreed....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: Is it agreed to note the listing of accounts and financial statements? Agreed. As usual, the listing of accounts and financial statements will be published as part of our minutes. I will move to correspondence. As previously agreed, items that were not flagged for discussion for this meeting will be dealt with in accordance with the proposed actions that have been circulated, and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)
Catherine Murphy: This is to do with the train traffic management system. Originally, the estimate was for €148 million. The range could now be somewhere between €175 million and €205 million, with the project estimated to come in at approximately €188 million, which is obviously a substantial difference. I do not doubt that the system is needed, but can we write to the NTA to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: Absolutely. That can be done. Is that everything on that item of correspondence?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: No. R2855, received from Mr. John Hogan, Secretary General of the Department of Finance, is correspondence providing information requested by the committee regarding the Greystones media campus. I propose to note and publish this item. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)
Catherine Murphy: We are being told in this correspondence that the current status of the development is commercially sensitive and the focus of the project is being reviewed. Essentially, the project has stopped. We should write to the Irish Strategic Investment Fund to get a status update. This is a non-answer. I am not satisfied with a non-answer. We need a status update. Approximately €24...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: I will come in on that. I totally agree. It is not good enough. I understand that as a result of it being a commercial entity, the Department is able to claim that some of the information cannot be given, but we need to see if we can get any more information. That is agreed. We will do that. It is to be hoped we will get some kind of response before we meet again. Updated actions are...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)
Catherine Murphy: We have not had it before the committee since its accounts were published.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)
Catherine Murphy: These are the oldest accounts that are outstanding.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)
Catherine Murphy: This is in terms of the largest entities. This is all the more reason. I presume the number of claims in dispute has had a bearing on the hold up.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)
Catherine Murphy: This is absolutely the reason this committee exists. It is the one that is most outstanding. We may well have delayed having it before the committee so that we would have the 2022 accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I completely agree that we should insist it come before the committee. Whether or not we are here does not matter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: I think we probably still will be here on 7 November. There is the issue of invitations being sent ten days in advance and that would allow for 7 November. Otherwise I am happy to meet next week if it comes back and says it cannot do 7 November but can do next week. Would Deputy Murphy be in agreement with this?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I would, yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: We will write to it and extend the invitation. As we know, this was flagged with it at the beginning of October. If it says it cannot do 7 November, which is after ten days, we can state we are more than happy to meet it next week. It is in the public domain that the Dáil will not continue for much longer after 7 November. In the short period of time we have available to us, this...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)
Catherine Murphy: It strikes me that if this does not happen, it will be 2025 before the committee will deal with a set of accounts from 2022. That is madness.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: For clarity, has the Comptroller and Auditor General dealt with the 2022 accounts previously?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: It will depend, then.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: At election time so many different things are up in the air. It is an issue of great concern for us with regard to the spending of public money. It is also an issue of great public concern. It is very important that the committee can hold people to account and hear what exactly is going on and get to the bottom of it. We will issue the invitation and say there is no problem and that we...