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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Remuneration (17 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 54. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the numbers of members of the Defence Forces who must rely or relied on family income supplement to survive in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23266/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Service Staff (17 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 88. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 16 of 30 March 2017, the number of new staff hires who are engaged in the provision of services in the area of international protection; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23382/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Service Staff (17 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 89. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 16 of 30 March 2017, the position or title of each of the new 15 staff; the date that each of the new staff members' contracts began; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23383/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Service Staff (17 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 90. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 16 of 30 March 2017, if she has conducted her own inquiries and is satisfied that the extra funding given to the Legal Aid Board in December 2016 for international protection clients was used solely for positions relating to international protection staff commencing after the funds were...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Service Staff (17 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 91. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 16 of 30 March 2017, the oversight or auditing in place to ensure that funds provided to the Legal Aid Board for services to international protection applicants is ring-fenced and used only for that purpose; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23385/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge Yield (18 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 17. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason for the under-performance of USC in the January to February period of 2017; the difference in the projected and actual intake; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23363/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland Enforcement Actions (18 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 26. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of all fines paid, including the monetary value and transgression for each individual fine, by a bank (details supplied) since the State acquired a majority stake in the bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23364/17]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Do we have homework to do?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Under the Act, the Minister has the responsibility to give permission or not for each contract for leases. It is not clear whatsoever if the Minister gave permission in this case. That is the question we have asked. I do not know where that answer is. We have got answers to parliamentary questions. We have got an answer from Caranua which is totally and utterly confusing. The message...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: To be fair to Caranua, it has replied to us. The difficulty is that the reply is not easy to interpret. The more serious difficulty is with the Department of Education and Skills and the Office of Public Works. I do not know who told Caranua it had to move. It seems to have been both the Office of Public Works and the Department. One or other of them is telling Caranua it has to pay rent...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I know the Chairman has been very generous with the time. If he will allow me, when the Department official was here he said he would go away and check. That in itself was disingenuous because they have been involved with Caranua from day one. It has come up repeatedly in the minutes from 2013 in respect of the premises. The Department of Education and Skills is part of this process.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: We do not want a lease signed.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I have one question which might be clarified in due course. It concerns section 4(b) of that long document, properties offered to the State and State bodies on a voluntary basis in 2009 and accepted for transfer. Do I take it that they have now been transferred and accepted? That is good news. However, being parochial, I do not know if St. Anne's, Lenaboy Castle at Taylor's Hill in...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: That was for 2009, it said it was accepted and transferred. The transfer might not have been completed, but has the offer been given and accepted?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: That building in particular has huge significance. I mix up the reformatories and industrial schools although I should not. It is lying idle. I was only there on Sunday. The former residents come back and visit it every year and go to the grotto. We have asked in the past for it to be transferred to the city council. At the time, they offered it to the Health Service Executive, which...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Has he entered the race?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: On the last occasion when Bord na gCon came before the committee I was overwhelmed by the gender equality. The thought occurred to me that if the board was more balanced, the industry might be in less difficulty. I say that tongue in check and semi seriously. My first question is whether any members of the board has a conflict of interest in any way?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: On the previous occasion, I think the chairman said that the legislation pre-empted the members of the board from owning dogs?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Let me put my questions in context because I am not here to highlight stuff that is personal. My role is to ensure there is value for money. Obviously Bord na gCon is in trouble because of various problems in the past including a previous board that invested unwisely at a particular time but in addition there are serious issues in respect of governance and lack of integrity have been...

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Numerous reports have highlighted governance issues, and there were serious issues in respect of animal welfare and the monitoring of illegal substances and so on. In that context have any members of the board got a conflict of interest?