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- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: How does a person get a place if he or she does not pay the difference? How can a person get a place in Galway city if he or she does not pay the difference between what is permitted under the scheme and the market rent?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: The Secretary General should listen to my reply. The person cannot get a house at market rent unless he or she makes up the difference. Does the Secretary General agree that the housing assistance payment actively promotes that system?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: That is even more frightening because that means the tenant has to come up with more money. Let us consider the limit of €575. Nobody in Galway can get a place for €575. The Secretary General does not agree with me so I shall move on. I have a few questions on staffless libraries. Laois County Council has refused to introduce staffless libraries, Dublin does not seem...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: It is not my fault but the Chair is looking at me hoping that I shall stop. I want an answer from the Secretary General. Did the Department carry out a cost analysis of this proposal? I have read what the Department has said but the staff members have claimed the opposite. For all intents and purposes, it is staffless libraries but the Secretary General disagrees and that is fine. Did...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: I have all of that information. Has the Department carried out a cost analysis on the system? Has the Secretary General figures for us in terms of the cost of introducing this new system?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: That is okay. Can the Secretary General come back to me?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: It is okay. The Secretary General can supply me with the figures.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: In terms of the Traveller accommodation plan in Galway city, is the Secretary General aware of the up-to-date status of what is happening in Galway?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: Is it correct that funding has gone back to the Department as result of various councils not using it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: What funding for Galway city has been returned and in what year?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: That is fine.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: Is the Secretary General aware that the elected members have not passed the Traveller accommodation plan?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: Has the manager been in contact with the Department on the urgent situation in Galway?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: Just a minute. This is very serious. The elected members and the manager are together on this matter. The council has not passed the Traveller accommodation plan. The plan has been on the agenda for a year. Has the manager been in contact with the Department on the urgent situation in Galway?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: That is what I mean. I did not mean the Secretary General, personally.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: The issue has reached crisis point. Deputy MacSharry raised an issue and the Secretary General said he was asked about value for money. This is not the only instance because I was there and know lots of land was bought. I do not know where the fault lies. I make no allegations and simply am talking about accountability. Huge segments of land were bought by councillors with the best of...