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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gender Equality (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: 128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which each of the recommendations of the report of the expert group, Higher Education Authority, HEA, national review of gender equality in Irish higher education institutions, has been implemented in each institution, in tabular form; the timeframe for the implementation of each recommendation; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gender Equality (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: 129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the consideration given to a retrospective analysis of gender equality issues in third level institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7852/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Mortgage Resolution Processes (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: 149. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 170 of 1 February 2018, the details of the 10,000 advice and assistance services provided to distressed borrowers up to mid-January 2018 by the Abhaile scheme in terms of court circuits, numbers of vouchers provided to solicitors and the average value of the vouchers; and if he will make...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome this letter. We asked for it and we got it. It is an outline and I welcome that. They do provide the information. They rolled it out in a pilot project in two big cities, Cork and Dublin, and there is an evaluation of that, which was referred to and I will not repeat that. We do not know operationally on the ground how many other hospitals it has been rolled out to and how it...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: We all know from having been councillors that it is something that comes up where there is one legal firm-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: -----in a region. It was never good practice and they never moved from that, so there was one firm advising Galway City Council for many years. Progress was made in auctioneer firms and similar services but it was never made in relation to legal services. Is this progress? Have we gone from a smaller number of solicitor firms to nine? Is there scope for more? I do not know. It must be...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: That is just in relation to process.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I agree with Deputy Cullinane and will not repeat his points. We stumbled across this rather than there having been forensic questioning. The more we stumbled and asked questions, the more worried we became at its ad hoc nature. However, the worst part for me was the attitude that one should not ask questions, that this was good and that we should just run with it. I agree fully that we...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Perhaps we should reflect on the term "market producers". The attitude of the universities and other third-level institutions when they appeared before us very much ties in the view of "market good, everything good, no questions." I will not repeat myself. We should look at it. We probably need help with it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Ironically, it is called Knowledge Transfer Ireland. The common good is not mentioned anywhere-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Excuse me, but I missed an item. On the item of correspondence about the appointment at UCC, what did we decide to do?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: No. 1078C. It involved a disclosure.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Which Department - the Department of Education and Skills?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Yes. It have just reread the correspondence and a serious issue is being brought to our attention. There was a separate evaluation. I will not go into the details of the correspondence, but this just keeps happening over and over again. I am not expressing an opinion on who is right or wrong, but an issue is being brought to our attention. There was a separate evaluation made of the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: We will ask UCC first.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: We will just be dealing with that specific topic.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: That will be it, is it?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I was not going to because I agree with most of what has been said. However, inviting IBEC and businesses to attend would not be appropriate. I understand where the Deputy is coming from, but they do not fall under our remit. Neither do the local authorities, unfortunately. However, the Departments and clarity on the money that is going out do fall under our remit. That is of essence and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Two weeks ago, we were in Galway with a county manager who told us that his was the third lowest funded local authority in the country. Deputies from all parties visited the Department. There was no sense in how the funding was calculated. It was based on a formula dating from 1998 that no one could remember.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Yes.