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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: The overall strategic direction of the National Cyber Security Centre is not clear. There is no strategic plan in place. Not all objectives in the previous strategy were achieved. As a result, there is a recommendation. Mr. Griffin has told us that the strategy will be in place in the first quarter of the new year and that there will be an implementation plan. The memorandum of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: A draft memorandum is missing. Mr. Browne has pointed out that it is missing, but it has not interfered with operations. I appreciate that, but there is a need for a memorandum of understanding, as Mr. Browne has agreed. He has confirmed that it was sent by the Department to An Garda Síochána in 2017. We are at the end of 2018. Where is the memorandum of understanding? When...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I understand and accept that. I have read it. The outstanding question is where is the memorandum of understanding. If there is no need for one, that is okay, but it has been identified as a need and the witnesses have so agreed. When will it be done?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Mr. O'Sullivan communicated that information to the Department.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: The memorandum of understanding will be in place when the strategy comes out in the first quarter.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: My last question is about the last recommendation made which I think we have already covered. It relates to what was not covered in the previous strategy, a risk assessment plan, a listing of various stakeholders and a governance framework, which is very important. The witnesses have said there is a governance framework in place in the Department, but the need for one has been highlighted...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I know that. Will a risk assessment plan, a listing of the various stakeholders and a governance framework be covered in the first quarter of next year?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I thank Mr. Griffin.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: We would need a translation as well as a note.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: B’fhéidir go bhfuil sé níos éasca iad a thuiscint trí Ghaeilge.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: The Minister of State is probably tired of listening to me but I am not going to change my approach. My approach is based on the fact that I have read all three reports, on my experience as a city councillor for 17 years and on my knowledge that bigger is not better. The Minister of State is taking one aspect of the report, the recommendation of the proposed amalgamation and ignoring all the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: The Minister of State has been a little disingenuous.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: That comment cannot be let pass. One does not need a big local authority to undo Ballinasloe-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: That is okay. I just could not let it go.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dormant Accounts Fund (11 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: 43. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the interdepartmental group pursuant to recommendation 7 of a report (details supplied) has been established; the number of times it has met since its establishment; the membership of the group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51856/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dormant Accounts Fund (11 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Has the interdepartmental group been established? If so, how many times has it met? Who are its members? This arises from the review established by the Minister's Department which reported in July 2018. The review was further to a chapter of the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General which came before the Committee of Public Accounts in February and identified significant...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dormant Accounts Fund (11 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: That makes matters difficult.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dormant Accounts Fund (11 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister of State for his clarification that the group has been established and that it is going to meet again. However, it is important to put this in context. It did not come from the Department. The inefficiencies and serious problems with the Dormant Accounts Fund were identified by the Comptroller and Auditor General. Among many other things which are of great concern to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dormant Accounts Fund (11 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I would appreciate it if the Minister of State came back to me with the minutes because it is absolutely vital that we have transparency. Again, this has arisen because of a lack of transparency, significant underspending and a lack of preparedness. The review was finally carried out this year on foot of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report and due to the fact that recommendations...

Statute of Limitations (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I compliment Deputy Jack Chambers on bringing forward this very precise legislation which I have no difficulty in supporting. I know the Minister of State to be very personable, but I, too, am shocked by the content and delivery of his speech and the ferocity with which he has told us that the Government will not be supporting the Bill. If he is listening, I remind him that he spoke about a...