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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I agree. This man has made considerable effort to inform us. He has gone to great trouble and gone out on a limb. That is important. He is asking us to make a quick decision which is difficult for us in our work programme. He did ask to meet us and I believe we did agree to do so in theory. Perhaps I am wrong. The issues he is raising are not merely historic. He is raising processes...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Thursday the week after next.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I agree with what you are saying but is it not a much bigger issue? In Galway, the Corrib Great Southern Hotel is owned by the State. Beside it is the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, GMIT, which is struggling for accommodation. The State sells the hotel and it ends up in liquidation. It is in private hands again and the State is seeking to buy it back. They are beside each other....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Yes. It is barking mad.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: It is important to mention those because it is a bigger issue. It comes into focus with Harold's Cross or somewhere else, but it is happening continuously.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I have often mentioned Kafka but this really feels like I am reading a story of his. I do not know if the Chairman is familiar with the single assessment tool which the HSE uses for home care assessment. It was run as a pilot project. It takes at least two to three hours to administer it through a questionnaire from a computer. One's dependency is being assessed on a computer with a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That is all right.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Administering the single assessment tool.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: May I have the reference for that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: It is the response.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: The Chairman is in a very strong position to do that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: We just made an observation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: On outstanding matters there is a practical issue. Could we have an update from the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board? There had been a long list, although a simple one, including the total cost for the definitive business case conducted by Ernst & Young. The members have been given a list of the outstanding items from 16 May. Is there any update on those outstanding...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I thank the Chairman.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2017
Chapter 22 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 May 2019) Catherine Connolly: Cuirim fáilte roimh na finnéithe. I thank them for all of the documentation. I also thank the Comptroller and Auditor General, although I was not thanking him at 12 midnight last night.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2017
Chapter 22 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 May 2019) Catherine Connolly: Well done to Mr. Moran on the accounts. There are no issues whatsoever identified by the Comptroller and Auditor General. It is important to put that on the record. I thank Mr. Moran for that. We have no issues. I will now go into the substance and the Department's opening statement. I am not sure whether it was with Mr. Moran himself but I raised a particular issue with the Department...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2017
Chapter 22 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 May 2019) Catherine Connolly: I wish we did have a conversation. We are always limited.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2017
Chapter 22 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 May 2019) Catherine Connolly: Is it not our economic policies that are driving that homelessness? Is that not the fundamental problem?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2017
Chapter 22 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 May 2019) Catherine Connolly: I hear what Mr. Moran is saying but I fundamentally disagree with him. That is for another forum. It is difficult to wade through all this information, although I know and appreciate all of the work that went into it. It is premised on a completely wrong ideology, however. How can any Department say we are sound when we have that level of homelessness and such a serious crisis in housing?...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2017
Chapter 22 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 May 2019) Catherine Connolly: Will Mr. Moran clarify that case for me? I remember asking him about it before and reading about it.