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Public Accounts Committee: Matters Relating to the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Financial Statements 2017: Professor Chris Fitzpatrick (11 Apr 2019)

Catherine Connolly: There were all those practical difficulties but if trilocation was essential for the three hospitals, how did this happen? Let us leave the planning difficulties aside. The issue of a maternity hospital went off the radar completely.

Public Accounts Committee: Matters Relating to the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Financial Statements 2017: Professor Chris Fitzpatrick (11 Apr 2019)

Catherine Connolly: That is what I was wondering.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service Data (16 Apr 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 67 of 18 October 2018, if the vacant positions have been filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17392/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Bodies (16 Apr 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 558. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if and when the Galway housing delivery task force has met; the name of all members of the task force; the steps identified to deal with the crisis; if the minutes of the meetings will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17339/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Apr 2019)

Catherine Connolly: To be helpful, Solidarity has always been before us.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Apr 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I am just being helpful.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Apr 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Following on from Deputy McDonald's comments on the mother and baby homes report, I also request a full debate and not just questions and answers. The Taoiseach has spoken about this as if it in the past. It is not in the past. I spent two hours reading the report and I will go back and read it in detail. The report states: "The Commission is surprised by the lack of knowledge about the...

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Ba mhaith liom mo bhuíochas a ghabháil leis an gComhaontas Ghlas as ucht an rúin seo a chur os comhair na Dála. Sílim gur fear stuama é an Aire a thuigeann rudaí nuair a dhíríonn sé isteach orthu. Tá sé soiléir go bhfuil easpa tuiscine i measc lucht an Rialtais ó thaobh cé chomh práinneach is atá sé go...

National Children's Hospital Costs: Statements (17 Apr 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I have praised the Minister for Health in the past when praise was due to him but I cannot praise him on this occasion. The speech he has read - I do not think he wrote it - is an insult. The Minister has not dealt with any of the issues raised in the report we are discussing, which cost over €500,000, or indeed by PricewaterhouseCoopers in a previous report. I will come back to the...

National Children's Hospital Costs: Statements (17 Apr 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I have three or four specific questions for the two Ministers. On page 65, the report states: "The Public Spending Code requires that a revised cost effectiveness analysis, cost benefit analysis or re-appraisal be undertaken in the event that serious additional costs arise". There were serious additional costs which were brought to the Government's attention. Who was responsible for not...

National Children's Hospital Costs: Statements (17 Apr 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I have one minute only.

National Children's Hospital Costs: Statements (17 Apr 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Will the Minister just answer the question?

National Children's Hospital Costs: Statements (17 Apr 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I asked the Minister what happened.

National Children's Hospital Costs: Statements (17 Apr 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I did not ask about what would happen in the future; rather, I asked three specific questions and stayed within the time limit. I ask the Ministers not to work down the clock but to answer the three questions asked.

National Children's Hospital Costs: Statements (17 Apr 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Did the Minister carry out a cost-benefit appraisal?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Chairman for raising this last week. I had the report with me last week-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)

Catherine Connolly: -----but I do not have it with me today. It is entitled to reach any conclusions it likes, but it was not asked. It did not relate to the terms of reference.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)

Catherine Connolly: The Chair is correct. There was no evidence justifying the conclusion reached, and it certainly did not relate to the terms of reference. I am subject to correction on that but I could not see where it related. We asked previously whether there was a conflict of interest, as the Deputy has said. We were told there was no such conflict of interest in the appointment of PwC. I raised this...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I highlighted the conclusion previously, and again today. It is written in a very strange way.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I did not quite understand it. Was PwC saying that it was making a conclusion or was it referring back to the original decision that was made, where it was concluded that completing the work at St. James's was the only option? It was not clear to me, but it is clear that it has been stuck into this report again. I am not sure whether it is saying that the conclusion reached is its...