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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: On that, and I was speed reading when I read the letter, a number of issues were raised and I do not think it is appropriate to go into them now at this point. I am raising this because the issues need to be teased out. Some of them relate to the Thorn report, and we would not be able to discuss those, but others are not. Will the Chairman come back to me on this?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Are we finished with correspondence?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I mentioned two outstanding items last week. One is the outstanding Deloitte report that we have not heard anything from, and the other item relates to further clarification on the nursing home letter. Have we got that further clarification?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: A response to the nursing home complaints, which I am not going into. There was a follow-up in relation to the inspector's-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: My other issue relates to clarification. We had to follow-up on a good letter and seek clarification on whether the inspector roles were part-time, full-time or whole time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Is this sensitive information?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Good work, Sherlock.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Will it be put into our work programme?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: There was just one outstanding item relating to correspondence. I could not recall it last week. I could not remember whether it was related to IDA Ireland or Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII but the issue was goodwill payments.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Did we? I missed that somehow. We were to get clarification on the goodwill payments.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Was it from TII?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It was to come back to us to outline how extensive such payments were and the criteria used.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: If that is available, I would like a copy.
- Justice Issues: Statements (28 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: The Minister looks forward to the results of reports. This is the famous report he refers to, the independent review which was carried out and was published on 11 July 2014. It referred to the commitment and dedication of the staff in the Department of Justice and Equality. However, it went on to highlight how they had been systematically run down and how the Department was suffering from...
- Justice Issues: Statements (28 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Did the Minister accept the offer of a quarterly review?
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (28 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: 49. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the report of the expert technical group dealing with the site of the former mother and baby home at Tuam, County Galway will be brought before Cabinet; when it is expected that the report will be discussed in Dáil Éireann; if the report will be tabled for discussion before the end of the 2017 term; if not, the reason...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Records Provision (28 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: 75. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps being taken to address access to adoption records for persons that spent time in mother and baby homes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50187/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card Data (28 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: 669. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the overall cost to date of the public services card, including production, activation and all other associated costs; the life span of the card; the nature of the contract with the service provider; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50526/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment (29 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: 34. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the procedures and-or protocols in place to ensure women who have experienced or continue to experience domestic abuse are not obliged to seek maintenance payments from the other parent; her plans to establish a national maintenance agency; the details of the domestic abuse awareness training provided to her Department's...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment (29 Nov 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Yes; that is fine with me.