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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Dormant Accounts Fund (27 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: 572. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the review of the dormant accounts disbursement scheme recommended by the Comptroller and Auditor General (details supplied) will consider if the reinstatement of a dormant accounts board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13712/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Ó thaobh chlár oibre an Rialtais, agus go háirithe an straitéis 20 bliain, de táimid ag fanacht anois ó mí Iúil an bhliain seo caite maidir le plean feidhmíochta. Nuair a d'ardaigh mise é, ní don chéad uair, i mí Feabhra, dúirt an tAire Stáit, Teachta McHugh, go raibh sé thar a bheith muiníneach agus...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Oibreacha Feabhsúcháin do Scoileanna (28 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: 157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills maidir le ceist 190 ar 3 Deireadh Fomhair 2017, an dtabharfaidh sé soiléiriú maidir le stádas an iarratais atá déanta ag an scoil (sonraí tugtha), go háirithe ós rud é gur chuir an scoil an soiléiriú ar na costais a bhí iarrtha ag an Roinn isteach an 29 Meitheamh 2017; agus an...

Affordable Housing: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: The Minister is the third in the role since I was elected and I have only been elected for two years and three months. We have continuously made the same speeches, and here we are again, two years and three months after I was elected, making the same speeches begging and imploring the Minister to declare a national emergency. At a conference well before I was elected, Fr. Peter McVerry...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I agree with that. It is an area we should look at with guidance from the Comptroller and Auditor General. I come from a city where the city council ended up in the High Court and the manager was very nearly jailed for contempt of court. We have a history in that regard. I also come from a city that learned to do it right and had a fantastic recycling system. I know it from both ends....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: We asked for the business case and we got it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I know. I welcome that. If there was a business case for this unit and it was a solid business case, why is the unit being wound up? I am delighted it is being wound up but if we are looking at value for money and there is a solid business case that initiated-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Does he no longer stand over the business case?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I refer to the non-consolidation of the foundation accounts. I understand that this came to the attention of the committee inadvertently through the Comptroller and Auditor General's reports, where we discovered that various universities, not all of them, had foundations. Mr. McCarthy pointed out that they were not consolidated. The universities' explanation was that they do not control...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Did that happen in relation to UCC?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I thank Mr. McCarthy very much for that clarification. It is important because one gets confused. According to the accounting rules, it is not necessary.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: It is not obligatory. The committee and the HEA feel it is necessary, and that is where it rests. Notwithstanding that, this university has not even given the accounts parallel with its own accounts. The issue of foundations and who controls what is huge. When NUI Galway, NUIG, appeared before us, it very proudly told the committee it had no control over it, so therefore there was no need...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: The committee should ask it for its accounts in relation to it. NUIG, which has a lot more money in the foundation, gave the committee the accounts, so I do not know why UCC is not giving them, or indeed any other college that has a foundation.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: That is what we are asking for.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Will the Chairman clarify what he wrote? I missed it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: That was in December and 75% replied.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: However, 25% did not acknowledge it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: It is shocking that 25% did not acknowledge the letter.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Galway Art House Cinema
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (29 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Cuirim fáilte roimh na finnéithe, go háirithe Katherine Licken Uasal. Go n-éirí léi ina post nua. Ní post nua atá ann anois, tá sí ann le cúpla mí anois.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Galway Art House Cinema
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (29 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Gabhaim míle buíochas as ucht na gcáipéisí uilig a bheith ar fáil i nGaeilge. Is é an chéad uair a bhfuair mé cáipéisí i nGaeilge d'aon choiste. Tá siad léite agam. Gabhaim míle buíochas leis na finnéithe as sin. Tá a fhios agam go raibh an t-uafás oibre i gceist chun an méid sin a chur os...