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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Chairman. Some 71% of the 2009 agreement is still outstanding and 53% of the total. Finally we had Caranua, which took up a lot of our time. It has been closed to applications since the end of August. That was a dreadful experience for those coming forward. We have gone into the governance, or absence of governance, in detail. I gather from this document that the money for...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Is that still outstanding?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: That is of the funds that are to be given to Caranua. Notwithstanding that Caranua-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Is that still outstanding?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Caranua is closed to applications. I note all the problems we have discussed, money going on rent and money still outstanding. Maybe the Comptroller and Auditor General could clarify what the redress scheme cost in total.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: €1.5 billion.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: That is all right. The figures from these offers, the legally enforceable agreement and the other one, are changing as well.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: That is the total figure that is being paid over.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: So the €1.5 billion is the approximate total cost-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: -----and the amount paid over is €227 million.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: We are writing back to the Department in respect of this.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: There is one tangential point which, I accept, may not be of relevance to the committee. I refer to the fact that the Lenaboy traffic surveys and so on that have to be finalised. That is irrelevant, but there is a geophysical survey that was agreed. I understand that an independent group carried out that geophysical survey in respect of the Tuam home. In this case it is not clear who is...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: -----a geophysical survey was agreed by both parties. What was agreed? Who was to carry it out? Was it under the city council's supervision?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Is the secretariat going to look at it?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome the post project review, which is now not going to happen.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Sorry, this letter is dated 28 July and it goes on to say what has been learned. They are going to do the post project review and then Part 2 refers to Galway 2020. I would say the Chairman has read it; he has read everything.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I will leave the first one, the Pálás Cinema, for a moment because the project review will take place in the first quarter of next year. Arising from that and in terms of what it has learned, the Department states that has been working to ensure robust project management structures are put in place for the European Capital of Culture Galway 2020 project, drawing on what it has...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I do. I want to know what is in place now, what will they improve on, when is it going in and so on. We sit as a committee so often, and we were here on Tuesday. The Pálás Cinema project did not have robust governance structures in place. That is why the cost went from in the region of €6 million to approximately €8 million over a period from 2006 to 2018....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: A member of the Department is on the board of directors.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: The issue of a member of the Department sitting on the board is very important in terms of robust governance. What is his or her role and should he or she be on the board? Should there be a hands-off approach involving the situation being properly monitored with proper accountability? I raise these issues because I am seriously concerned. I do not need to say that I am a proud Galwegian....