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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I shall start by discussing the last accusation of using political manoeuvres. That is outrageous. Throughout all of this process politics did not come into it. I shall talk about the injunction in a minute and I might not be so gracious. I thank the Chairman for chairing these meetings fairly, under extreme difficulty and following serious attacks on a constant basis in the media and,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Not procedurally-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I have no difficulty with that but with the spin that it was political manoeuvring. I have no difficulty with Fine Gael having a vote. The spin that has been put on this matter has been truly shocking when the focus-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I did not interrupt anyone. There has been non-stop spin by NAMA, in the first instance. There have serious public attacks made on an office and the attacks continued here. We bent over backwards to bring in everyone. I, for one, had an open mind and I believe everyone on the committee was the same.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: We bent over backwards to hear the evidence. To talk about political manoeuvring is really serious as it undermines the committee. As Deputy McDonald has said, the committee provides one piece of hope to the public.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: The one piece of hope is for us to come in here and try to ask questions, and sometimes ineffectually and not very well because it is extremely difficult notwithstanding the excellent help provided by the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General. Let us park this thing about politics because the claim has been made, on purpose, by Fine Gael. I was taken totally by surprise by the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Legal advice on what?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I thank the Chairman for withstanding the pressure. We felt pressure on this with the continuous leaks. The person who leaked did it deliberately and shamefully and if he or she is within this room, I hope he or she looks within himself or herself. I reiterate that we should have no more private meetings. We should take the power back to the committee. Second, we have three third level...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: Could the speakers be indicated? We are watching the other screen as well.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: The Chairman might let us know. Cuirim fáilte roimh na finnéithe. An leanfaimid ar aghaidh trí Ghaeilge nó trí Bhéarla?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: Bhuel sin sin. Anyway, go raibh míle maith agat as bhur iarracht leis an nGaeilge. Does Professor O'Shea agree that the foundation should be consolidated from now on?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: Let me be clear. The Comptroller and Auditor General's strong recommendation is that those funds should be consolidated within UCC's accounts. Is that right?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: Let us examine that encouragement. The Comptroller and Auditor General's office is asking the college to consider consolidation of the foundation. This issue will arise with all universities. UCC is getting public funds and providing public education, but it has a separate stream of income. The witnesses can imagine how this committee views it as great that people are generous and giving...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: There has been no expanded disclosure note or appendix to date.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: It is a tiny note in the accounts. I read it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: Is UCC telling us that, from now on, it will be happy to give greater disclosures regarding the foundation?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: UCC can do that or it will do that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: I welcome that. If UCC does not have control of the foundation, does the foundation have control of it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: I am only speaking in terms of what is done with the money.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: The president is on that foundation.