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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps Operations (29 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 49. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of requests for assistance made to the Air Corps in 2016; the number of requests that were and were not fulfilled; the reasons the Air Corps was unable to facilitate any such requests; the required complement of staff necessary to enable the Air Corps to respond appropriately to requests for assistance; the number of vacancies in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (29 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 151. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an overseas registration application (details supplied) which is with the NMBI since August 2017. [15622/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (29 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 152. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an overseas registration application (details supplied) which has been with the NMBI since December 2015 [15623/17]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I agree that we should make a decision. Subject to what I see tomorrow, Mr. O'Brien should come back to the committee, as should the other gentleman mentioned and anyone else Mr. O'Brien believes would be able to assist him. On the freedom of information question, while Deputy Farrell raises an interesting point with which I do not have problem, it takes us off the issue of the Health...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: The Chairman can say "No" to that but I am making clear what I want.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: We might have to meet on Sundays.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: It is direct provision and all of the other stuff.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I wonder if the Comptroller and Auditor General could be asked to slow down with reports.

Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I wish Dr. Love the best of luck in his new job.

Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Was there a gap between his coming into his position and the departure of the previous holder of the position?

Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Who is the current chair?

Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Was there a gap between his appointment and the departure of his predecessor?

Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Does the HEA have enough-----

Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: The HEA has huge responsibility under a number of Acts, does it not? This has been set out for us very clearly by the Comptroller and Auditor General. It has responsibility under the Higher Education Authority Act, the Universities Act, the Institutes of Technology Act, and then there is the national strategy for higher education published in 2011. This huge responsibility has even been...

Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I will put this in context. I do not expect Dr. Love to comment on Government policy but I do on the matter of student fees and student loans because the university and third level sector is in trouble. I see report after report and huge problems holding the system to account on the part of the HEA and the heads of the universities. In that context, the HEA has a very important role to...

Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: However, at this point, the HEA is not looking for additional staff.

Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Has the HEA contacted the universities that have not come forward with their financial statements - NUI Galway and another two were mentioned - to ask them why they have not done so?

Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: My question is whether the HEA has contacted them and, if so, the answers received.

Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Let us take the HEA's last contact. What were the three universities with financial statements outstanding? I forget them. One was NUI Galway, which is easy for me to remember as I represent Galway.

Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I understood the Comptroller and Auditor General to say there were three audits outstanding, or were they just late?