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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: I wish to ask Mr. McCarthy about the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission. Obviously, it is disappointing that is happening here, of all places. In the notes, it states the service provided details of 29 non-competitive contracts in its annual returns. Under non-compliance with procurement rules, it sets out that the service complied with the guidelines with the exception of nine contracts...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: Okay. There were two contracts with a total value of €773,000. The explanation given is that they were expenditure under an expired contract to allow for continuation of essential cleaning services. I ask that we write back to the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission to ask it for an explanation around that and why the contract had to be renewed or continued without going to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: I suggest we seek clarification regarding those items. Does Deputy Murphy wish to say anything on this issue?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: We will request that information from the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: That is interesting. During the Covid-19 period, that could be understood. However, we need an explanation for this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: In the case of the venue, if there was only one venue that would cater for-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: Whatever it was, we will get answers on this and on the other issues. Can we agree 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. Moving on to correspondence, as previously agreed, items that were not flagged for discussion for this meeting will be dealt with in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: Just for information purposes, this came in, as I understand it, on the last working day of last week, that is, Friday, 28 June at 7 p.m.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: Look, we have it. RTÉ has come back to us. The response is fairly comprehensive, but there are some questions around it that are legitimate. We need to go back on them. The Deputy is correct on that. She had something else to say on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: There are a couple of major parts to it, the first one being the level of outsourcing. Then there is decentralisation, which means moving to other locations. Both have huge implications for staff. Obviously, day-to-day management, HR and all that is not our business, but it is important for the director general and the management team not just to tell the workers what is happening but also...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: Senior management.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: We have been following the question of bogus self-employment for a number of years during this Dáil term, including during Covid when it was more difficult. Between the Deputy, me and others, I think we have raised it in every one of the nine meetings. It is important we follow through on that. RTÉ gave us an outline of what is happening. Out of the 168 investigations carried...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: RTÉ is only listing the ones that were carried out and presumably completed by the scope section of the Department of Social Protection. It is only referring to those ones. I would say there must be hundreds more in there.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: I think it has increased somewhat.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: Okay. Maybe the suggestion on outsourcing and decentralisation is that we correspond with the board to emphasise our concerns regarding the effects this will have on low- and middle-ranking workers in RTÉ. We cannot directly interfere in anything like that, but the committee is concerned at the level of engagement with the workers and we would like to see active engagement with them...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: Yes. There are three issues between the bogus self-employment and those two.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: Yes. About that specific one.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: Class S is self-employed.