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Housing: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I wish to share time with Deputies Joan Collins and Michael Fitzmaurice. I wonder what to say in the three minutes I have. I do not address my comments to the Minister of State or Fianna Fáil or the Labour Party because I have lost all faith. My role and the role of the Opposition is to give confidence to the people outside the House that there are people in here who do not believe...

Other Questions: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (25 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 51. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the review of Caranua; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45000/17]

Other Questions: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (25 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: What is the status of the review of Caranua? Has it been completed and when is it to be published? When will it be discussed in the House? The Minister knows there is a background to the issue and that the Dáil debated having a full review, as was promised from the beginning. He is also aware of the upset among applicants to Caranua. While I will not dwell on it at this point, I...

Other Questions: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (25 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: That is the same reply I got over a month ago, at which stage the Minister told me in a written reply that the report was nearing completion. Over a month later he is telling me the same thing. I do not wish to argue with the Minister at all, but he must place this question and answer in the context of people who are extremely upset. My office is in constant receipt of urgent...

Other Questions: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (25 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I appreciate that the Minister is referring to changes that have been brought in but I do not know whether he appreciates the seriousness of what I have just said about the representations to my office, and I am not alone in this regard. Someone has gone on hunger strike. I am only repeating what he has told my office and a number of other people, and for the second time we have passed that...

Tracker Mortgages: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I thank Fianna Fáil for tabling this motion and I welcome the opportunity to make a quick contribution to the debate. It is significant that yesterday it was announced that the former Taoiseach, Deputy Kenny, has joined the distinguished Speakers Associates agency of London as an after-dinner speaker at €22,000 a talk. This captures what Fine Gael and to some extent Fianna...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (25 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 56. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the introduction by Caranua of new guidelines pertaining to obtaining support for funeral expenses, in particular, the requirement that service users divulge their personal circumstances to prospective funeral directors and in order to avail of support for funeral services the service users sign up to the new €15,000 limit;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (25 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the qualifications of and training given to all Caranua staff, in particular to all application advisors in view of their particular role to offer support, information, advice and advocacy to those who have received awards from a court settlement or the redress board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45164/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (25 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the 2016 annual report of the appeals officer of Caranua will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45165/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (25 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 424 of 20 June 2017, the number of outstanding appeals at Caranua; the length of time those appeals are outstanding; when it is expected that the backlog will be cleared; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45166/17]

National Planning Framework: Statements (Resumed) (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Tá mé sásta go bhfuil deis agam páirt a ghlacadh sa díospóireacht seo ar ábhar an-tábhachtach. Sílim gurb é seo an cáipéis is tábhachtaí a tháinig os ár gcomhair le cúpla mí anuas. Tá píosa beag bídeach - deich líne nó mar sin - faoin dteideal "Gaeltacht areas" ar leathanach 82...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Like my colleague here, I do not understand that. This report belongs to the health executive.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Not wishing to dwell on it, it seems that a game is being played in a sense. We discussed whether we could go back to the service provider and the whistleblower to get it and we felt that would not be fair. If it is owned by the health executive, surely it can release it or we can go back to the service provider which has a copy of it and simply get it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Before the next meeting, could we ask for clarification on the chief inspector's role? I was foolish when the chief inspector was here and I presumed there was just one. Could we have clarified how many inspectors there are, who functions as a chief inspector, when it is delegated and how it is delegated? I will not name anybody, but various names appear here who acted as the main...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Are they full-time roles? Is the chief inspector a full-time role? If not, what other roles does that person have? How are the delegated roles delegated? Under which legislation does this happen? Do they also play other roles?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: It is under legislation. The chief inspector-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: HIQA as well, and very much so.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: It is simply factual, just to clarify the role-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: -----and how it is delegated. I have said it and I will not repeat it.