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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I did not either but I am just conscious that we should be given an official report. I am asking the Chairman to confirm in public when we might expect-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)
Catherine Connolly: The timeframe for the report to be published is in the next week or two.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I just wanted to clarify that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: The officials are very welcome and I welcome the Comptroller and Auditor General's report of a clean audit. It is nice to be able to look at a programme which ranges from the Ancient East trail to the Wild Atlantic Way to the wild west to swimming pools to active towns and so on. There is a huge range of topics here and it is very good that the officials are here to talk about that. I...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: Go ahead, please.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: On those swimming pools, does the Department have a profile of their age, whether they will deteriorate if the funding does not go ahead and so on? Has it looked at that? I am thinking about obesity and active cities. There are excellent policies all over the place in all these documents and yet we have an underspend on swimming pools. What is the Department's proactive approach on that...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: The Department invited in three more and got two, so that is one proactive thing.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: What is the problem with tendering?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: The Department attributes the underspend to delays in tendering and matching funding.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: I know it is local authorities. Is the Department aware of those issues? Does it sit down and talk to the local authorities to say the Department has this money, so let us use it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: The question is in regard to the ones that are not taken up. Does the Department sit down proactively with the five that were raised?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: I would love if Mr. Doyle was able to come back to me and say that these are the five pools, these are the problems, we are working with them and we will get them sorted out. There is a danger of the pools deteriorating and not being used. Is there a time span for sorting these out?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: I would and I am going to keep an eye on the five pools.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: To return to roads, which my colleague, Deputy Catherine Murphy, raised, the biggest spend in that budget is on roads and primarily the maintenance of roads, not new roads.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: How does the Department decided between rural and city balance?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: The local authorities identify the roads under their control for maintenance and put them forward to the Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: Therefore, there is an even balance between the regions and the city. It is up to the local authorities to come forward to say what their programmes are and what needs to be repaired and the funding is there.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: How does the Department ensure fair balance? That is the question I started off with.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: I thank Mr. Mullaney for that clarification. I have a specific question on the tolls. How much was paid in respect of the PPP operational payments as compensation for toll income being less than anticipated? This was touched on and the Department did not have the figure. I am asking for the figure again. What was paid over? Mr. Mullaney made a comment that the traffic is now...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: I called the figures compensation. Traffic guarantee payments is what they were called, is it?