Results 18,701-18,720 of 33,581 for speaker:Catherine Connolly
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: How is it ring-fenced? I will follow up in a moment on Deputy Catherine Murphy's contribution on Aughinish Alumina.
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Moving on to the topic of the site at Aughinish, I went through the information regarding the figures. I want to try to deal with the relevant issues. According to the correspondence, a sum of €14 million was identified in December 2016 for new financial provisions. On 16 January 2017, a figure of €28 million was mentioned in a letter from the EPA or issued via the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: It is an unfortunate word.
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Cramp usually relates to paralysis.
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: What overall amount of money has been ring-fenced?
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I have that figure written down here and that is what we informed it was.
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: What does the parental company guarantee mean if the company does not comply?
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That is fine. Various things are done and there are criteria. Once the parental company guarantee has been put in place, does it change over time? Does the EPA have a panel of financial experts and is the parental company guarantee assessment updated regularly? I welcome that the total ring-fenced has gone up but why did it change from €14 million to €28 million in the two...
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: The €14 million is in respect of remediation on-site.
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Is that €14 million of the €28 million?
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: The rest is a parental company guarantee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I am going to use this as an example. Is there independent monitoring of that money? Does the EPA monitor it or does it get someone else to do that? There was a reference to modelling. Does someone go out, unannounced, and carry out regular inspections or what happens?
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: How many inspections took place overall in 2018?
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: They were unannounced inspections.
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Ms Burke has already given details regarding issues with inspections to Deputy Catherine Murphy. I am going to park that issue for the moment other than to state that Ms Burke referred to a "thorough investigation". I cannot judge that because I am coming late to this. I have read about it, however, and I have serious concerns about the repeated loss of samples that were given. I will...
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Perhaps.
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I understand and appreciate that. Ms Burke has gone through that and set it out for me but she said in response to Deputy Catherine Murphy that there was a thorough, multi-agency investigation and conclusions. I cannot agree with that, although that is a matter for another day outside this committee, from what I have read and because of the samples going missing, among many other things....
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I will move away from An Bord Pleanála and refer to the guidelines. I refer to table 4 of the EPA's wastewater treatment manual on treatment systems for small communities. I am asking about the general issue. Those guidelines are from 1999 and are on treatment systems for small communities, business, leisure centres and hotels. When building a water treatment plant near those...
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That is right - a population in excess of 161.