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

Catherine Connolly: Let us not perpetuate abuse that this time is being carried out in our name.

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

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Deputies who have passionately supported the motion. The Minister suggested this was an unduly negative motion. My reaction is to point out that is a continuation of the terrible attitude that has always in applied in this country. It is a patronising attitude that immediately seeks to isolate the group or person who have highlighted complaints. I have endeavoured, as have my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Asylum Support Services (24 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 43. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria for qualifying for the pilot grant scheme for asylum seekers to attend university introduced by the Government in 2015; the status of its implementation; the number of applicants and the number of successful applicants according to place of residence in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24385/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (24 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of external companies or organisations or bodies that Caranua have engaged for a fee since its inception in tabular form; the fees that these entities have charged; the source the fees were paid from; the justification provided from Caranua for the services of these entities; his views on whether these charges could have been avoided...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (24 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has given permission to Caranua to move premises and incur rental costs; if so, when; the nature of the lease in question; the annual rent to be paid by Caranua; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24875/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (24 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he gave permission for contracts entered into by Caranua; if so, if he will provide details of the nature of the contracts in tabular form; when permission was given by him; the cost of each contract entered into by Caranua; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24876/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (24 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 195. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the new Caranua premises are owned or leased by the OPW, Office of Public Works; the nature of the lease in question between the OPW and Caranua or the OPW and another party but by which Caranua will be allowed to use the premises; the amount of rent that Caranua will pay annually; if Caranua has paid rent to the OPW since its...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (24 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 196. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of the lease at a location (details supplied); the terms, rent payable and duration of same between the OPW and Caranua; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24870/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (24 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 197. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the nature of the arrangement, lease or other agreement at a location (details supplied) between his Department and the Department of Education and Skills; if rent is paid; and if so, the details of same. [24871/17]

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 8. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of social housing units that will be completed in Galway city in 2017 and in each of the next five years; the locations in which this construction will take place; the expected number of social housing units coming into the ownership of the city council in 2017 and in each of the next five years under the...

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I checked with someone on the social housing waiting list in Galway before I came to the Chamber. That person went on the waiting list in 2002. That is more than 15 years ago. During that period, the person in question has never once been offered a home by either the local authority or an approved housing body. My question is very specific: in light of that extraordinary list, what direct...

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I am asking specifically how many will be built.

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I am not clear. I welcome that the Minister of State is concerned and that he is saying that houses will be built. I am asking a very specific question, which I asked in the written form. How many city council houses will be completed this year and in each of the next five years? The most recent figure we got for the waiting list was 4,720 households going back to 2002. At a conservative...

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: The question is very clear. I asked the Minister of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of social housing units that will be completed in 2017 and in each of the five years thereafter. I then go on to ask for further information. At this point, we are looking at 14 houses this year, with a bit of luck, in a city which has 15,000 people on a waiting list. The only...

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: That was additional.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Land Transfers (25 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount of residential zoned land in the ownership of Galway City Council and Galway County Council and/or transferred under the land aggregation scheme by either, or both, local authorities; the location of these lands; the quantity of this land which cannot be used pending the proposed new road under the N6...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Department for getting back to us. It gave us three letters. The web of intricacy is becoming more apparent and I would like the help of the Comptroller and Auditor General in this instance. I ask that we deal with Caranua, with other correspondence. It has come back to us to clarify that it is paying rent.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Most other Deputies and I raised this matter. I asked whether Caranua was paying rent. I checked the accounts with the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General to determine whether I had missed something and was told that no rent was being paid. I asked on the day whether rent was being paid and the CEO said no but that it would be paying rent as it was about to move into the private...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Why did the OPW not charge rent for three years? Why was there a policy change?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: That is the crucial question. I do not know if the Comptroller and Auditor General is right, in the sense that he is 99% of the time, but it has been confirmed to us in correspondence that rent totalling €50,000 was paid over as part of the extension. When the chief executive officer was in, we clearly asked if it was paying rent and she said it was not but it was going to. She did...