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- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Connolly: I read that note on the shortfall in expenditure. Is it because there is no need to test anymore?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Connolly: It will drop and drop.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Connolly: Okay. On climate change and the report this week, 35 actions have been recommended for the Department. I presume Mr. Gleeson is very familiar with the 35 or maybe he has not had time to become familiar with them. There are 35 specific actions for the Department. How is the Department fixed in relation to those?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Connolly: Are we not meeting those at the moment?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Connolly: Is there a reduction in the amount of money the Department is spending on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Connolly: I understand all of that. We have all had to read the reports over and over. Every year when Departments have come before the committee, we have asked for this to be done proactively. My question is where the Department is on that and the 35 actions. I understand that one of the actions is to bring back a Teagasc report that was not acted on. Is that right?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Connolly: I understand. We need to go forward, working together. I am not about divide and conquer, even with carbon tax. Climate change is the biggest risk for us. Over the past two and a half years on this committee, I have not had the sense that Departments are taking it seriously. It is not just the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. I do not have that sense. It does not appear...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Connolly: We will certainly be monitoring it for as long as we are on it in terms of money because there are huge implications for money. I thank Mr. Gleeson for the detail on the fisheries harbour. There was a special report on that by the Comptroller and Auditor General in 2014 and it contained seven recommendations. There was a general reference in Mr. Gleeson's opening statement that some have...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Connolly: I am never happy with the word "substantial".
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Connolly: Substantial planning compliance does not exist but people keep using that phrase. Have the seven recommendations been implemented?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Connolly: Of the ones that were done quickly, how many have been done and completed of the seven?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Connolly: I ask for an update.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Connolly: Which of the seven have been implemented and which have not and why?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Connolly: To go back to property, finally, I was asking about the proceeds of land sales. There was one particular matter on page 31, namely extra receipts payable to the Exchequer. It referred to proceeds of a land sale of €642,000, which was a sizeable sum that I overlooked. What was the valuation process? What was the land and what was the process of sale?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Connolly: What happened the other half?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Connolly: Was that an open sale?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Connolly: I see one last thing.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Connolly: Under surrender of Vote, "uncashed cheques" caught my attention, which gave the Department €72,000. Are some people not bothering to cash cheques?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2019)
Catherine Connolly: It is welcome that the Taoiseach has moved from asserting that the declaration of a climate emergency was merely symbolic and that a climate action plan has been published by his colleague the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Bruton. The plan clearly needs further discussion, given the vagueness of actions in a number of areas, not least of which are...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I welcome the Taoiseach's comment that a master plan is necessary. It is necessary for the Government to take a hands-on approach because Galway City Council has not done that. I welcome compact, urban growth that is planned in a sustainable way. Within that paradigm, a feasibility study for light rail is needed. The city is destined to increase its population by more than 50%. On the LDA,...