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

Catherine Connolly: Is the land in Galway owned by Bord na gCon?

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

Catherine Connolly: I ask the witnesses to explain to me about Galway.

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

Catherine Connolly: Is Bord na gCon leasing it?

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

Catherine Connolly: How long?

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

Catherine Connolly: What does IGB pay for that?

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

Catherine Connolly: To go back, was it not a clear recommendation that IGB would look at all of its assets and see what was possible? For instance, if we move to the Comptroller and Auditor General's report, he gives you a clear audit, I think, with a caution in respect of a going concern. It is a going concern because of Government assistance. Is that not correct? What do the figures for 2016 show?

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

Catherine Connolly: My question was what the figures for 2016 indicate. In 2015, it was barely a going a concern. Is 2016 showing the same thing, leaving aside the debt?

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

Catherine Connolly: IGB had a strategic plan; it has run out of date. It has made a small number of updates as a result of the Indecon report. It was highlighted that IGB needed to look at its strategic plan and at all the racing tracks and needed to look to see what it would do with them. That really has not been done.

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

Catherine Connolly: I will ask my last question, which goes back to stakeholders. This was not something that was pulled out of the sky. The establishment of a stakeholders forum was a strong recommendation. It was recommended that all relevant stakeholders be on it, including the Department. That really did not happen in any formal way, inasmuch as IGB did not tell anyone a new forum was being set up and...

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

Catherine Connolly: Mr. Meaney has already said that, and I heard him, but the whole point of the new forum was to rebuild trust. Anyway, I have said it-----

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

Catherine Connolly: When the board is giving the documents could we get clarification on the premises in Limerick that is supposed to be empty overhead? I forgot to come to it. Why is it empty and how long has it been empty?

Order of Business (23 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: The Taoiseach was busy last week but I raised a matter with him then and the previous week. Last week, he said that he would revert to me within the day. It relates to Caranua and whether the Minister for Education and Skills - perhaps he will answer, given that he has not reverted to me - has given permission for Caranua to move into new premises and to sign a lease for extraordinary rent...

Order of Business (23 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: A Cheann Comhairle, I asked a specific question and did not waste any time.

Order of Business (23 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Permission was not given.

Order of Business (23 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Was permission given?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (23 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 87. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of recommendations from the McMahon report that have been implemented and that have not yet been implemented respectively, in tabular form; the reason for the delay in implementing these recommendations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24386/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (23 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 127. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures which have been taken to review the ban on Libyan citizens obtaining visas for Ireland; her views on whether this ban is fair in view of the hardships endured by Libyan citizens; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18303/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Remuneration (23 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 450. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the continuing failure to implement the European working time directive which was transposed into law through the Organisation of Working Time Act and, notwithstanding which, workers in the homeless sector and more particularly, those working with a centre (details supplied), continue to receive only €4.50 per hour from the HSE west...

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: A Vision for Change, which was a ten-year strategy, expired in January of last year. I, and other Deputies, have repeatedly been asking when the review in this regard will be published. When I raised this issue on 5 April, I was told that publication of the review was imminent, but it still has not been published. Equally important, I was told that the oversight committee was being...

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I move:That Dáil Éireann: recognises:— that the statutory body Caranua has, to date, failed a large number of applicants in providing adequate access to the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund; — the high number of complaints and reports of dissatisfaction and negative experiences from applicants to that fund; — the poor delivery of service and...