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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: The witnesses would know that because they commented here that the Department administers it directly and then I think there was a figure of 29 in respect of the Dormant Accounts Fund. The Department must have a breakdown. Would Pobal do 50% of the work? Is it 30%?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018) Catherine Connolly: I understand that and they have not been included. The Department bears its own costs.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018) Catherine Connolly: My question is how that compares with what the Department is doing.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018) Catherine Connolly: It is an important question.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018) Catherine Connolly: Yes, please provide us with the number and the value for each year. How many of the projects must struggle with matching funding? The area based childhood, ABC, project was mentioned earlier. In regard to the Department and Atlantic Philanthropies, I have difficulties with saying the word, perhaps it is an adverse reaction-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018) Catherine Connolly: It is not a general feature.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018) Catherine Connolly: It is only for specific projects on occasion.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018) Catherine Connolly: Maybe we could get clarification on that too because it is also very important. Specifically in regard to ABC, which subsequently became something else, I do not know why or what analysis was done. Later it became the QCBI, quality and capacity building initiative. Quality and capacity building is something that needs to be done to the Dormant Accounts Fund. What was the effect in...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018) Catherine Connolly: The ABC programme received no Dormant Accounts Fund funding
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018) Catherine Connolly: Is this voted money?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018) Catherine Connolly: Yes, do that, please. Has that funding stopped now?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018) Catherine Connolly: Where does that relate to the Dormant Accounts Fund?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018) Catherine Connolly: I do not think we need to jump into a solution but one needs to be found. The review is key to that as are its nature and time limits. It needs to dawn on people very soon that we need to communicate with the public and for there to be a strategy of saying that the State has money, and they ought to come forward, because we know they are struggling. That must be a huge part of it. I regret...
- Third Interim Report from the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Catherine Connolly: As I have five minutes only, I will direct and make my comments in a focused manner. As the Minister can imagine, trust is essential. As has been acknowledged, she received a letter on 16 January about basic issues, one of which is access to records. An individual has been to the High Court eight times to gain access to records on his sister. Another issue is the provision of a dedicated...
- Third Interim Report from the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (13 Feb 2018)
Catherine Connolly: What concerns me in the summary is the line, "The potential to identify individuals interred in Tuam is one that poses many challenges". I can understand that. It then goes on to state one of the challenges is the "potential damage to relations between the public, the Church and the Government". What kind of challenge is that? Why should it be identified? That tells us something about...
- Roads Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Ba mhaith liom mo thacaíocht a thabhairt don rún seo agus mo buíochas a ghabháil le Fianna Fáil, go háirithe Teachta Robert Troy, as ucht an rún seo a chur os comhair na Dála. Is rún thar a bheith tábhachtach agus praiticiúil é. Cuirtear in iúl leis an rún seo an rud atá ráite ag an gcomisiún...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Communities (13 Feb 2018)
Catherine Connolly: 58. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which each of the 29 recommendations contained in a report (details supplied) has been implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7115/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (13 Feb 2018)
Catherine Connolly: 400. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 307 of 5 December 2017, if he has arranged for the HSE to reply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7123/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme Eligibility (13 Feb 2018)
Catherine Connolly: 603. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when redress under the existing scheme will be extended to former residents of a home (details supplied) in view of the finding of a report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7234/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Seaweed Harvesting Licences (13 Feb 2018)
Catherine Connolly: 692. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress made in resolving the regulatory licensing issues that pose an impediment to the development of the seaweed industry; the research carried out on the production of a sustainable management plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7116/18]