Results 15,001-15,020 of 33,051 for speaker:Catherine Connolly
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That is all right.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Will it come before us in due course?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: It is unacceptable that the money is still outstanding.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That is the first item. We followed up on this. There are other items regarding Caranua to which I would like to return at some stage and from which we could learn. They are not for today and I do not want to delay the meeting but I certainly want to come back to Caranua with regard to value for money, which is really a horrible term to use considering the purpose of Caranua. It is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I support that suggestion but from the small amount of correspondence at which we did look, the emails, it seems to have been the other way around. Somebody in the Department of Health was attempting to contact the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform regarding the children's hospital but received no response.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: It seems to have been the reverse, but that is subject to clarification.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Is this the letter from 10 May and the attachment to it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I think the Chairman might have been a bit premature in trying to balance the record because I do not know what record needed to be balanced.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That is okay for the Chairman himself, but as a member of this committee, I read this and I find it very worrying, and that is something that is going to have to be teased out today. I do not know what words I used but I certainly stand over whatever I said. This document shows that PwC was engaged in November 2018 in relation to this. It has been employed by contract since January 2019 in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: The other consultants, included Mazar's, Deloitte, and Linesight. There is also an internal report from November, but there is no price given for that one. We know now that one of the external advisers was PwC at a cost of over €20,000. We struggled to get all this information, so-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: We will absolutely discuss it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: It goes on the record without being read out, but it was read out in order to balance things.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I missed that answer, could Mr. Barry repeat it? I beg his pardon.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Fáilte romhat ar ais. I congratulate Mr. Barry. He was nominated by the Government and approved by the health committee. Is that right?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: There was no interview process and it was a nomination plus an approval.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Thank you. We are back here because, quite clearly, there has been a huge overspend. None of us wants to be here, certainly not the members of the Committee of Public Accounts. I wish Mr. Barry the best. He gave us an opening statement today of four pages. He gave us a history lesson, partly, and he outlined things that have happened. We know that. It is why we are here and why we have...
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: What did Mr. Barry think of its findings?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: What did Mr. Barry think of its findings? Let me help. The definitive business case was faulty and inaccurate. What is the PEP?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Thank you. The PEP was faulty, reporting back was faulty, there was a failure to challenge by the board and a competency-based board was unable to challenge what was coming up, there was undue reliance on the design team and so on. All of that was identified. Was any of that identified by the board prior to this?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Good. Where?