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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: This is the dilemma HIQA has been placed in. It should not be in that dilemma in the first place because now we are making decisions on whether the health executive has enough staff or resources while they are depleting resources elsewhere.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Archives (8 Sep 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 1065. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress made by the National Archives Ireland since the enactment of the Preservation of Certain Records Act 2024; the number of religious orders have they engaged with; the number of orders that have given National Archives Ireland a full inventory of records they hold in respect of institutional abuse and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Over seven years ago, the Government made a very good decision to bring in a policy for sustainable fishing in the 6-mile nautical zone. The policy was to prohibit big boats, over 18 m, from fishing in that zone. Unfortunately, that decision was held invalid by the Court of Appeal on a very narrow ground. The Government went back to basics and had a consultation process to bring in another...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Catherine Connolly: It was to be eased in, but it is not-----

National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030: Statements (17 Sep 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome any strategy that has human rights in it. I, therefore, welcome the National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People. However, if I go to the back of it, I see that there is a fundamental misunderstanding. On the last page, it states that their message is clear: people with disabilities want to be treated the same as everyone else. That is not accurate. They do not want to be...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Are we going through them all and then coming back to individual ones?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I have a question on either the first or second one, namely the fishery harbour centres and the delay in presenting the accounts. It was an extraordinarily long delay. I do not know if this was dealt with previously. If so, I will not repeat but-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I would certainly propose we do that because it is a really extraordinary length of time. The next question is on Dundalk, which is not in my area but it is of interest. That is a huge amount for an impairment charge in relation to planning. It relates to a planning application and all of the expenses and paperwork involved in getting a project through planning that was then suspended....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)

Catherine Connolly: The final one then is on University College Dublin and the underpayment of VAT. How did that arise? Including interest, the amount is almost €931,000 in total. How does something like that happen? Is it unusual?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Go raibh maith agat.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I would like Mr. McCarthy to remind us about the hepatitis C and HIV money. There have been so many tribunals. I was up to speed on this but that is no longer the case. Where are we with what the Comptroller and Auditor General has outlined? That is one issue. Then, in the context of the HSE, we have the writing off of €33.8 million worth of expired PPE and vaccines. That is...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)

Catherine Connolly: So that is just the figure for 2024.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Mr. McCarthy might clarify that for us as well. What is the total amount in relation to the write-off relating to PPE? Mr. McCarthy referred to a key control in respect of grant funding. That is what we really need to zone in on, namely why these key controls are missing when it comes to the HSE or any other entity. When we go out canvassing, we can see that certain entities are...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Regarding that figure of €33.8 million, is that for one year?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Would it be similar figures for the previous year?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)

Catherine Connolly: That would be helpful.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I was not questioning the figures, as such. It was more the status of where we are at with those.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)

Catherine Connolly: On the ICT project date, it is very difficult to keep up. Is there any way we can come back in relation to the spending on ICT projects? I do not know; I am just throwing it out because it is really difficult to keep up with it. It seems to be huge. There seems to be very little accountability. I do not know if we have the expertise to see it but certainly, we have the expertise to raise...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I was in earlier and then left and came back.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)

Catherine Connolly: That is okay; I did not realise that.