Results 15,741-15,760 of 33,058 for speaker:Catherine Connolly

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Catherine Connolly: The tribunal that will take over will be a court in my opinion. Other than the fact that it will not be in public, it will have all the characteristics of a court and it will make an award. Will the agency still have a role in that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Catherine Connolly: How much money has been allocated for the ex gratiascheme?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I wish to go back to health and prevention. I do not like to be parochial about anything but I will use the example of Galway to generalise. I thank the Chair and the secretariat of the Committee of Public Accounts. I sought all the external reviews in University Hospital Galway, UHG, over a ten-year period. The purpose of that was to establish the number carried out, the recommendations,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Mr. Lynch might address those general-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Catherine Connolly: These things can happen. There can be a problem with water or a temporary waiting list. However when it goes on and is not identified by management, is that not a problem?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Mr. Lynch is in charge of quality assurance. If there is a question mark over water - the most fundamental thing - in a hospital, surely that is a red alert?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Catherine Connolly: What is wrong with the process that it has not been dealt with and highlighted?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Then there is a problem. There are two questions. First, was there a response after the HIQA inspection? What about the response previously when the problem was highlighted by staff? Why did it take HIQA? If that is the situation in one hospital it raises questions, notwithstanding all the lovely stuff I read here. I note the special committee, and I see the doctor that chaired the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I take more comfort from the fact that Mr. Lynch is going to hear about this than I do from the general situation. I am allergic to people having to suffer as collateral damage for the greater glory. I know Mr. Lynch is not saying that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I thank Mr. Lynch. Is my time nearly up?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I want to go back to pages 46 and 47, which concern mass actions, with Mr. Breen. We talk about a litigious society. I have an allergy to several things, including that idea. Nobody featured on these pages is taking a case without cause. Mr. Breen will agree with that. One of these actions concerns a lack of in-cell sanitation, which is a State responsibility. Now the public purse is...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Is it correct that none of those cases has been resolved?.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I am looking at the report

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I might use a different word than the drop dead date. To recap, the six people received €62,500 each, but those six people are included in the figure of 36 cases.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Since 2018, the State Claims Agency, SCA, has received two more cases, bringing the figure up to 38. The next column states that none of the cases is resolved.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Catherine Connolly: When were the first proceedings in those cases issued?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Roughly how many years?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Catherine Connolly: May I request a note on the range of the years to be sent to the committee secretariat?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Is it the case that the State Claims Agency is challenging the cases on the basis that not all were suffering from the effects of thalidomide?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Catherine Connolly: The Government is pressing the Statute of Limitations.