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- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Catherine Connolly: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Catherine Connolly: I would just like to look at Mr. Griffin's Department for one moment because, ultimately, it comes back to all of us and the Department is in the lead position. I see some very welcome initiatives. I see some that I wish I had more time to discuss. I refer, for example, to community ownership of renewable energy, a matter to which I hope to return later. However, let us start with Mr....
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Catherine Connolly: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Catherine Connolly: I ask Mr. Griffin to go back to the changes the Department has made regarding energy and to be specific. The Department has changed the heating system. What are the results-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Catherine Connolly: I ask Mr. Griffin to give me the specifics on that. What have been the results?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Catherine Connolly: Will Mr. Griffin come back to me on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Catherine Connolly: Lovely. The next thing, on a more general level, is the Department's leadership role in the context of the other Departments. What-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Catherine Connolly: What percentage is that number of all the schools?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Catherine Connolly: How many people in the Department have such vehicles?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Catherine Connolly: Mr. Griffin has stated we must crawl before we can walk. Climate change presents a major challenge. I do not wish to put Mr. Griffin on the spot, but I wish to see leadership on this issue permeating into every Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Catherine Connolly: The Chair will give Mr. Griffin as much time as he likes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Catherine Connolly: I ask Mr. Griffin to let me finish because I do not have enough time to go through the issue in detail. I wish I did, but I will return to it in the second round of questions.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Catherine Connolly: People are way ahead of us on this issue. Government policies pay lip service to public transport. To take the example of Galway, there is no provision for light rail in the national planning framework and absolutely no recognition that we need public transport services. That is, however, an issue for another time.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Catherine Connolly: Great.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Catherine Connolly: I want to follow up on the matter of broadband provision. Mr. Griffin explained the position on the national broadband plan. Will he give us the dates once again? I have a specific example in mind which has general implications. It concerns an address in Connemara. There are blue spots where there is broadband. There is, however, a house right beside a blue spot which does not have...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Catherine Connolly: The man in question runs a business. I understand Mr. Griffin cannot give me a date, although he says it will be three years from now. What is the explanation for it not being commercially viable to provide a service for him?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Catherine Connolly: The two houses are as close as I am to Mr. Griffin.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Catherine Connolly: It is because of the specifics of the case.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Catherine Connolly: Mr. Griffin is saying it could be three years before a broadband connection is supplied.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Catherine Connolly: Therefore, the State's role is funding a private company?