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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) (20 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: And Ms Feehily oversees the implementation?

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) (20 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Ms Feehily has expressed disappointment at the targets being put back.

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) (20 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Okay.

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) (20 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: That is the first quarterly report. Is that the very first report from the Policing Authority?

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) (20 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I understand that. Has the Policing Authority any other function in relation to this?

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) (20 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Will the quarterly report be published?

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) (20 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I thank Ms Feehily.

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: A Vision for Change was a visionary document and I do not believe anyone had a problem with its content. The problem was the failure to implement it and the disbandment of the implementation body. Its life span was completed in January 2016, a year and a half ago. There have been repeated promises and I am aware from informal chat with the previous Minister of State that there might be some...

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I will refer to Deputy Howlin once more, I hope that he does not mind.

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: That he would use ten minutes to eulogise a judge and then complete this eulogy by saying that we really need appropriate legislation, captures for me precisely why Governments get away with what they get away with. Government has the power to do what it wants because the so-called Opposition is not Opposition at all. What Deputy Howlin completely ignored, as has the Government, is that the...

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: -----specifically Part 4, he will see that it is specifically provided for. Section 17 does not allow for existing judges to go through this system.

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I will come back to that in a minute if the Deputy could stop interrupting: he had ten minutes and I have three. Section 18 is in relation to the Attorney General and what should happen. There are three parts to that, two dealing specifically with the Attorney General. The board can recommend her and if she wishes to be considered, she must step outside the door. First, why did the...

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: And then ignored it.

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I have two very brief questions. Why was the former Attorney General not asked to leave the room when the decision was being made? When did the former Attorney General become aware that she was going to be nominated by the Government? When precisely was she told that? Ar tháinig sé aniar aduaidh uirthi i rith an chruinnithe?

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I did not ask any of those questions.

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I did not ask any of those questions.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (21 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 81. To ask the Minister for Health the position in relation to the provision of nursing home services in view of the fact that the private public ratio has reached critical level of approximately 80 to 20; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27904/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (21 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 91. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of ambulance services in north and south Connemara, County Galway, in view of the repeated highlighting of serious issues in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27903/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (21 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 131. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the recent confirmation that the vacant physiotherapy post in south Connemara will not be filled due to financial constraints (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27906/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Building Programme (21 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 136. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made in relation to the written request to him by the clinical director of Galway University Hospital and the management of a group (details supplied) to examine an options appraisal of a new hospital; if the permission has been given; if not, the status of the request; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27902/17]