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- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016) Catherine Connolly: -----because of the absence of legislation.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016) Catherine Connolly: I should also congratulate the State Claims Agency, as it got a clean audit on everything from the Comptroller and Auditor General. Obviously, our questions do not pertain to the auditing of accounts; they pertain to the agency's role and function and queries on that. I will turn to the single recommendation from the Comptroller and Auditor General regarding the agency. It pertained to the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016) Catherine Connolly: I may allow the Comptroller and Auditor General to come in later to comment on that and whether he is satisfied that his recommendation is being taken on board. As for the risk assessment, my experience in a different life was that the risk was not managed well by the health executive and by the hospitals and that risks could have been avoided. I believe the agency is taking a proactive...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016) Catherine Connolly: They represent an extraordinarily high percentage of the overall claims. It seems that often what was necessary, in addition to compensation, was an early acknowledgement. I have two questions in that regard. What risk assessment improvements have been made? Would Mr. Breen also comment on the necessity of early apology?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016) Catherine Connolly: Certainly. How is that policy, where the apology is coming earlier and there is open discussion, being monitored?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016) Catherine Connolly: Will those two reports - that of the maternity hospitals and the one Mr. Breen just mentioned - be available publicly?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016) Catherine Connolly: Finally, on this particular area, there was a saving of 42% in legal costs after the agency went back and examined the issue. That also is to be welcomed. How did the agency manage that? A 42% saving is significant. Were they over-compensating in their estimates of costs or what?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016) Catherine Connolly: I thank Mr. Breen. Moving on to another area in terms of investment, Mr. O'Kelly stated the NTMA's role is in managing the debt and all of that, but it has another role in investing money throughout the world. In fact, I was staggered - I do not come from a financial background - at the amount of investment. I looked at the risk assessment, which is a major issue for the NTMA. Has...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016) Catherine Connolly: I could not be happy with that answer. Climate change is the biggest risk we face. I have asked Mr. O’Kelly in regard to the very well-produced, glossy report where climate change fits in and where it is identified as a risk. Mr. O’Kelly tells me there is a transition. Do I understand that the NTMA is to move out of all the current investment arrangements? There are 55...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016) Catherine Connolly: I have not been given a date on when the transition will be completed. Mr. O'Kelly is not answering my question on the serious economic risk posed by climate change, not to mention its impact at the human or any other level. Why is this not listed in the document as one of the major risk factors associated with the NTMA’s investments?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016) Catherine Connolly: Clearly, the process today has highlighted a lapse and a gap. This is extremely important. Climate change does not feature in the document. I appreciate the delegates' openness in answering my question.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016) Catherine Connolly: Reassuring me there is a transition phase is hiding behind words. I refer to the impact of the delegates' or their predecessors' decisions to invest in all these companies and to their failure to include a reference to the risk posed by climate change.
- Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)
Catherine Connolly: While I would like to believe the nausea I am feeling was caused by the early start this morning and a lack of food, it has been caused by the level of debate in this Chamber, particularly on the part of the leaders of Fianna Fáil and the Labour Party. I find it nauseating to be in this Chamber, having been elected in an election at which people asked for something else and wisely...
- Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)
Catherine Connolly: I am sorry. I was explaining that I am after Deputy Catherine Murphy. That was the confusion.
- Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)
Catherine Connolly: I wish to ask two questions, the first of which follows on from those of Deputies Pearse Doherty and Catherine Murphy. The Minister has not answered this specific question. Did Revenue bring to the attention of the Minister or Europe the fact that it was dealing with a stateless company in this or other cases? Did Revenue raise an issue about the difficulties posed by that? The Irish...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flooding Data (16 Sep 2016)
Catherine Connolly: 906. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question Number 456 of 12 July 2016, if the tree management package works scheduled to begin on 1 September 2016 are in line to begin on that day; when such works will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25284/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flooding Data (16 Sep 2016)
Catherine Connolly: 907. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 456 of 12 July 2016, the funding applications under the minor flood mitigation works and coastal protection scheme that have been received by the OPW; if any determination on the applications has been made; the outcome of the funding applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flooding Data (16 Sep 2016)
Catherine Connolly: 908. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 456 of 12 July 2016, and with reference to the statement that certain works on the OPW channel have been identified, and these are being put in hand, the number and particulars of the works on the OPW channel which have been identified, in tabular form; when these works commenced; the stage of...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Tourism Industry (16 Sep 2016)
Catherine Connolly: 1634. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the severe problem posed by illegal dumping at a specific site (details supplied). [24929/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Statutory Instruments (16 Sep 2016)
Catherine Connolly: 1645. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to provide the list of statutory undertakers under the Electricity (Supply) Act 1927 and any statutory instruments subsequent to the stated enactment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24668/16]