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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: The Department is in the middle of a complex procurement process to secure a private company, or might it secure more than one company?
- 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: Where does that fit in with what is already in place? Is Mr. Griffin referring to the metropolitan area network, MAN?
- 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 am not; it is set out somewhere in the documentation that the Department provided for the committee.
- 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 works in parallel with the scheme to which Mr. Griffin referred.
- 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 systems will work together, or, in fact, there will be three systems. There will be the metropolitan area network, the national broadband plan and the private operators.
- 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 will return to Mr. Griffin on the matter. On the underspend, there is considerable urgency attached to the matter of tackling climate change. I will not start to quote figures as Mr. Griffin is familiar with them. It is our greatest challenge; everything else pales in comparison. We will not be crawling or walking if we do not face up to the issue of climate change. How, therefore,...
- 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: To take that example, if we take parts of Galway such as Knocknacarra, Salthill and Claddagh, where I am, what are the positive implications for the people of those areas under sustainable energy communities? I have read it; it looks wonderful, but what does it mean?
- 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: Is that €16 million?
- 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 not extending to wind farms or other energy-----
- 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: Would that be the ambition, that the community would benefit?
- 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 was going to come back to the issue of the underspend.
- 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: Would Mr. Griffin expect there to be no underspend this time next year?
- 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: On the same note, the energy research programmes had a huge underspend. The note says that the renewable heat incentive, RHI, programme was not initiated in 2016 due to delays in finalising a detailed consultancy report. Why was there a delay and why was there a need for a detailed consultancy report? This is an energy research programme.
- 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: Is that scheme in place now in 2017?
- 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 missed this year completely.
- 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: My query was not specifically about one person.
- 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 allowed for two contract-----
- 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: There was no reply to that from the named officer.
- 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, but there was no answer. The officer could not give an answer.