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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: It says here-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: It states that the gross national debt is the principal component of general Government debt. However, the gross national debt also includes the debt of central and local government bodies.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: The way it is written here-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: It is reading as if it is the gross national debt.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: What is written here is, "The gross national debt is the principal component of general Government debt. However, it also includes the debt of central and local government bodies."
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: The Chairman can see how difficult it is.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: It is not so much the wording as trying to understand the concepts. We asked for that because we did not understand it and then, having looked at it, I still do not understand it. Mr. McCarthy is saying one thing and the Department is saying another.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: General Government debt.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Which "it"?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: The "it" refers to the gross national debt.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: The whole exercise is for us to try to understand it so we are in a position to ask questions. If we do not understand it, we cannot ask questions.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Not to simplify it, but explain it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I asked. I do not know why it needs to spend that much money on consultancy services for communications. For the record, I think it is unacceptable that that much money is being spent. I do not think it is good value for money and I do not think it is necessary. I might come back to it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: The story of a new hospital is a story that is sufficient in itself. I do not know why we would need to sell it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: It is very important that we deal with this and I am glad that the Comptroller and Auditor General is preparing a report on it. I will not repeat the issues that have been raised but will add my support to what has been said. In addition, as a result of the PPP model, which I consider to be utterly faulty and adopted for the wrong reasons, the health service suffered. We did not roll out...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Where is the Chairman getting these figures?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: This is a policy matter for the Government and the health committee. Like the Chairman, we all have a particular interest in it because it is not working on the ground. I would love the health committee and our committee to look at home help. It has become more and more privatised. I am not sure where we are getting value for money in this regard because we do not know. It just went down...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: No. Well, based on budget, but justified by what is called an international standardised way of assessing somebody for home help, which consists of two hours filling out a form on a computer. Magically, 99% qualify for only ten hours' home help, regardless of whether one has Parkinson's, another progressive disease or senile dementia at an early stage - say, in one's 60s. I could not sit...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: We are looking for the numbers of hours and the costs involved.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I mentioned Caranua, which I understood was to appear before us when the accounts were complete.