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Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Mr. Barrett has reserved his position, I think, in relation to whether he has confidence in the process going forward. That is what is very important now. Is that not correct? We know this history, this ongoing digging into it. Where do we go now? Mr. Barrett is on a committee with Mr. Culhane and I do not want to personalise this matter.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I will not. There is a serious lack of trust and serious allegations.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Good.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I agree with Mr. Barrett.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Yes. That is why I am asking Mr. Barrett during this committee process whether he has confidence now.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: When was that done?

Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (1 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: The Minister will forgive me if I leave out praise as I have just three minutes and will use them appropriately. It is welcome that an expert team will be appointed, that a specific timeframe has been given and that terms of reference will be published today. I welcome the monthly reports and the scoping exercise but I am extremely disappointed that we still have no timeframe for it. The...

Other Questions: State Bodies Expenditure (1 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 9. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the nature, details and value of all accommodation contracts entered into between the OPW and Caranua; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26099/17]

Other Questions: State Bodies Expenditure (1 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Will the Minister clarify the arrangement between the Office of Public Works and Caranua? What contract, if any, has been entered into? What are its details and value? The Minister is fully aware of the controversy about Caranua taking on a rent obligation that it did not have before. It was set up in January 2013 and did not pay rent until recently. Will the Minister clarify the position?

Other Questions: State Bodies Expenditure (1 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Will the Minister clarify why Caranua will have to pay rent on moving into the leased premises associated with the Office of Public Works, OPW? Will he clarify that the OPW is leasing the existing building? What was it paying for it? Caranua was in it for three years and one month without ever paying rent. What has changed that now obliges it to pay rent? Furthermore, is the Talbot...

Other Questions: State Bodies Expenditure (1 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I appreciate that the Minister is going to clarify that aspect. The question I am asking which he is ignoring, although perhaps not deliberately, concerns the fact that we really have gone around in circles. Other Members have tabled questions similar to mine such is the concern about Caranua moving into rented premises. The figure we were given was €272,000, to include VAT, year...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: This is a specific request on a specific issue. There were many land deals at that point so will this not be looked at anyway? It is just one of many pieces of land bought.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: The local government audit will look at it now, on request.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I was aware of that. I will come back to it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: We will come back to it. That is okay. I thank the Chairman.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: What is our response to it, given that it has been highlighted?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Review of Medical Consultants' Tax Affairs
Chapter 14 - Research and Development Tax Credit
Chapter 16 - Deferral of Tobacco Stamp Liability (1 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I feel like having a cigarette at this point. I thank all the witnesses for their frank delivery. It is very welcome. It is refreshing. I welcome how they have embraced, albeit not entirely, the Comptroller and Auditor General's recommendations.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Review of Medical Consultants' Tax Affairs
Chapter 14 - Research and Development Tax Credit
Chapter 16 - Deferral of Tobacco Stamp Liability (1 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I say this partly tongue-in-cheek and partly seriously but it occurs to me that Revenue did not do an advert on the buses about medical practitioners or other professionals. It did not ask them to come forward to help us pay tax as has been done with social welfare.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Review of Medical Consultants' Tax Affairs
Chapter 14 - Research and Development Tax Credit
Chapter 16 - Deferral of Tobacco Stamp Liability (1 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I do not agree with the social welfare advert. I asked the question tongue-in-cheek. It is an appalling way to go on. I saw the Ombudsman's report on social welfare in the paper yesterday or today which said the figure for fraud was wrong. It has just been highlighted in the Ombudsman's report. I have to make the comment that we go after certain people in a particular way. I am not...