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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Plus the implementation of those. I have run out of time and I am afraid that I am going to be stopped. I have a particular interest in libraries. I do not know whether libraries come up under this section but I saw it. I will take urban regeneration because it was mentioned in chapter 4. I refer the Secretary General to Annex 4B of chapter 4 on page 45, which shows that the amount spent...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: That is fine.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: European funded.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: A breakdown of that would be very helpful.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Lastly, I wish to mention staffless libraries and the wonderful initiative that we do not need human beings manning libraries. Where are we with that initiative, which was rolled out as a pilot project. Has sense prevailed or is the Department persisting with staffless libraries?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I will happily miss my bus if the Secretary General is going to comment.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I see.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: The Department does not deal with it any more.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: It is dealt with by the office of Deputy Ring.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Does the Secretary General know whether the rolling out of funding for libraries is based on the concept of staffless libraries? Is it conditional? Originally, it was.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Secretary General.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I said I would happily give up my bus if the Secretary General was going to stray into the area of comment as I wanted to hear his comments. That is all I meant.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Without staff on-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Is that without staff?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Excuse the bad pun, given we are discussing libraries, but there are a number of narratives as that was not the information we received on the ground from library staff. If it is not the authority’s area anymore, then I will not take up more time but there are certainly many narratives-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: It is under the council's remit.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: The funding is coming through the Department.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Ms Maguire is in a position to answer my question. It was rolled out as a pilot project. Were research and analysis carried out on that pilot?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I have run out of time. Deputy Catherine Murphy is waiting to contribute and I do not want to be selfish. Could we be provided with an update on the pilot project and the assessment and analysis carried out, please?