Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 October 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency

9:00 am

Photo of Catherine ConnollyCatherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I was speaking earlier on the Charleton tribunal. One sentence from its report states "Public relations speak as a substitute for plain speaking is an affront to the duty of [the Garda]". I think the criticism of public relations speak as a substitute for plain speaking could be applied to every body including Deputies. I am looking at the Housing Agency. I am not being personal. It has been put in a particular position, where it is doing its job. However I am looking and see it has had a summit - of which the Chairman has asked for its result - and spring lectures, there was a conference in 2017 which was moderated by Ms Terry Prone. Presumably she was paid for that.

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