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Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I am seeking the range. The witness was about to give me the range and then she stopped.

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I see that the HSE has written to a number of bodies on a number of occasions. Has it written to 15 bodies or is it more?

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: That is at this point. Were there more which changed after the witness wrote to them?

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I have asked a question and I will be given the reply afterwards. I thank the witness. She has been very helpful. I have a last question.

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: It relates to non-compliance with the signing of the service arrangement. The HSE introduced a penalty.

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: The consequence was that a percentage of the funding was held back. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: That is fine. I am not into punishment, believe it or not. I just wanted to know what Mr. O'Brien has learned from that. It related to one aspect, the timeliness of signing the arrangement.

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: That is only one aspect, the timeliness. Has Mr. O'Brien evaluated that to see how it could be applied in that positive manner in respect of other faults?

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I have only two practical questions, one of which concerns the cost of the Deloitte report, which Mr. O'Brien previously gave but which I have forgotten. Last year after Mr. O'Brien appeared before us, he sent a comprehensive letter setting out the cost of the audit committee and of the compliance unit. Could he update us on that? He told us at that point that the internal audit function...

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Just the cost of the Deloitte-----

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Ten thousand euro in total?

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I will stick to the amendment. I thank Deputy Catherine Murphy for tabling the amendment. I sit on the Committee of Public Accounts, as she does, and I realise the invaluable work the Comptroller and Auditor General and his small team do. If the Government is seriously interested in restoring any faith in it, its handling of the water crisis and Irish Water, this is the most basic step it...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card Data (7 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 68. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the results of a cost benefit analysis that has been undertaken in respect of the public services card, PSC; the number of cards that have been issued to date.; the cost of same; the number that have been activated; the cost incurred to activate the cards; the business case presented for activation; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (7 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the detailed proposal on staffing requirements as agreed by the board of Caranua on 26 July 2017 has been submitted to his Department; if so, if he will provide a copy of same; the steps and or decisions that have been taken further to the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45939/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (7 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount that remains outstanding of the €110 million offered by the religious congregations following the publication of the Ryan report in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45940/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (7 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 331. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the arrangements in place for the effective management of Caranua in view of the reported absence of the CEO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45941/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (7 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if persons engaging with Caranua will be required to present a public services card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46840/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification Data (7 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 512. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons granted family reunification under section 18 of the Refugee Act 1996, as amended in 2015, 2016 and 2017; the number who held Irish citizenship at the time of their family reunification application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46147/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Foreshore Issues (7 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 541. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if seaweed harvesters who have been cutting seaweed on a set area of State-owned foreshore and-or taking dislodged seaweed cast up on a particular stretch of seashore can register their traditional rights under the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009; the other options available to register their traditional right; and...