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Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: There is a huge underspend on that as well.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Social Innovation Fund Ireland saw a huge underspend.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Yes

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: When will that be ready? Who is developing it? Is it being developed in-house?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: When will it be ready?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: The end of March.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: It will be available and we can see it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: When would it be, roughly?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: All right.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: What is that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: They are not individual organisations.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: It is the representative organisation for the co-ops on the islands, Connemara and throughout the Gaeltachts. They set out very clearly what is necessary and I would have thought this would be the first point of engagement.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: The Chairman is being very polite with me as I am sure my time has finished. It is essential that the review should look back and learn but it must also look forward and change the modus operandi. There must be a focused team with full-time employees looking at this. This money must be given out and it is clear the Department cannot do it, with the best will in the world. The two or three...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Pobal has an administrative role but does it have a feedback role for the Department? Does it indicate what is needed on the ground?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: No, that is not my question. Is there feedback generally on what is needed in an area? For example, would it indicate gaps or what is missing?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: No, it is not with regard to schemes. Does it identify gaps and needs in an area or function outside the limited scheme being administered? Is it simply-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I have one or two specific questions. I do not think that the Chairman meant it, but I do not think that the comment on Pobal - to get rid of it - is acceptable. It is doing considerable work on the ground. The questions are appropriate in terms of analysing what is happening but it is premature to make those kinds of comments.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: No, but Pobal was mentioned and it is struggling. The difficulties it has experienced should be part of the analysis. If it is helping applicants and filling in application forms, as my colleague mentioned, it demonstrates that there is something wrong with the complexity of the thing. Pobal is key to asking about problems on the ground. On Pobal, some of the moneys are administered...