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- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2016
Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Liquidation (14 Dec 2017) Catherine Connolly: What about the option of holding onto it, with the dividend coming back to the Exchequer?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2016
Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Liquidation (14 Dec 2017) Catherine Connolly: Was there analysis of that idea of holding onto the 100% and receiving the dividend from a profitable bank?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2016
Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Liquidation (14 Dec 2017) Catherine Connolly: I am delighted that I have asked one good question.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2016
Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Liquidation (14 Dec 2017) Catherine Connolly: Did the Department consider holding on to it, and keeping the dividend?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2016
Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Liquidation (14 Dec 2017) Catherine Connolly: Why was that not pursued?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2016
Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Liquidation (14 Dec 2017) Catherine Connolly: It is a policy decision, in the first instance.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2016
Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Liquidation (14 Dec 2017) Catherine Connolly: Second, learning that bank shares are risky might be a lesson worth learning but there are many other exercises that are worth learning from the debacle over the last ten years. The wisdom of putting State funds into speculative banks is one very serious lesson, and there are many others, but obviously the witnesses are not policy makers. My second point related to value for money. I...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2016
Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Liquidation (14 Dec 2017) Catherine Connolly: Was it a good decision?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2016
Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Liquidation (14 Dec 2017) Catherine Connolly: That is in the future, and in the meantime, taxpayers cannot get houses, they cannot get healthcare and so on. We know what the problems are, the point is that officials such as the witnesses are making no connection between the two things. We are talking about this language as though it is a special language, which exists independently with no implications. Mr. Carville shuddered at the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2016
Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Liquidation (14 Dec 2017) Catherine Connolly: How much went into Anglo Irish Bank?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2016
Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Liquidation (14 Dec 2017) Catherine Connolly: It is like Monopoly. I have often used the phrase Monopoly money here. The State did not save that bank. It was a basket case. It was not saved. Is it not the case that what we did was to put money in a circular movement from taxpayers, through the Government, to pay off creditors, bondholders, unsecured bondholders and so on? They were too big to let fail.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2016
Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Liquidation (14 Dec 2017) Catherine Connolly: Would it have collapsed if the money had not gone into Anglo Irish Bank?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Road Projects Status (16 Jan 2018)
Catherine Connolly: 51. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when a decision is expected on the application received from Galway County Council in regard to funding for a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1791/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Road Projects Status (16 Jan 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Tá soiléiriú á lorg agam maidir le hiarratas atá, de réir mar a thuigim, curtha chuig an Roinn Forbartha Tuaithe agus Pobail ag Comhairle Chontae na Gaillimhe maidir le hacmhainní cuí a fháil le caoi níos fearr a chur ar Bhóthar Dhoirefhearta. Ar a laghad, ba cheart go mbeadh an tAire in ann a rá liom an bhfuil an iarratas sin...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Road Projects Status (16 Jan 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I am at a loss to understand what is going on. B'fhéidir go mbeidh an tAire Stáit, an Teachta Seán Kyne - the Minister's colleague - in ann tuilleadh cabhrach a thabhairt. We have attended public meetings and I have followed all of the correspondence. I have a list of it in front of me. I understand we have already received the reply the Minister has given. I understand...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Road Projects Status (16 Jan 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I will have no difficulty in doing so. We have the support of all elected representatives in the area. The difficulty is that there is constant confusion. The Minister has clarified repeatedly that the application does not come within the remit of the scheme, but, unfortunately, that is where the application went. I would have thought one Department communicated with another, as the...
- Hospital Trolley Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (16 Jan 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I wish to share time with Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice. We will have six minutes and two minutes.
- Hospital Trolley Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (16 Jan 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I thank Deputy Louise O'Reilly for bringing this motion before the House. I have no hesitation in supporting it. I also thank the Minister for confirming that he is not opposing the motion. In addition, I congratulate the Taoiseach today for his announcement that there will be an increase in bed capacity. That is certainly a change because up to now successive Governments have confirmed...
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Dormant Accounts Fund (16 Jan 2018)
Catherine Connolly: 77. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his views on the recommendation that credit unions be brought under the aegis of the Dormant Accounts Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1792/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Funding (16 Jan 2018)
Catherine Connolly: 122. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide a copy of the PESCO agreement, ancillary documentation and documents relevant to the primary agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54996/17]