Results 16,021-16,040 of 33,058 for speaker:Catherine Connolly
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Where are we with the accounts?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I am anxious that we follow up on the matter. We agreed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I would not be consistent if I did not comment on the absence of gender representation. It was overwhelming yesterday on the justice committee and it is overwhelming again today. It is no reflection on the witnesses but it is important to highlight it because it seems we are going backwards. Can I clarify something? I thank the witnesses for the information and I think they got clear...
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: They are called board members, not directors.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I am not being pedantic. It is coming from the accounts. I am looking at "Bord na gCon board and executive biographies". We talk about board members and directors. That is what is leading to my confusion. What have we got?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: It is a semi-State body.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: On that semi-State body, we have a maximum of seven board members and at the moment we have six. Mr. Dollard probably explained in my absence why one person is not there.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Who are they?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Who is the welfare person?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That was a recent appointment, was it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Did I see when I was reading this that Bord na gCon appointed a new veterinary expert in 2017, or am I confused?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Very good. Why is there one vacant?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: How long is the vacancy there?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: When is it expected to fill it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Whose hands is it in?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Okay. That is that confusion cleared up. For the 2017 reports of the members and directors or executive, that has changed slightly, has it not?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Significant change for the better, with more expertise. Is that the significant change?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Okay. Comments were made about "shambolic". We do not usually use such words and I do not but I have to say that to date, that was the presentation to us. In over three years they were among the worst. They were here on two occasions. It was like Roman times, really, the way we had the room packed and they were laughing and joking and did not believe anything that was being said at a top...
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Mr. Peake is down as a director at some stage I think, is he? No, he is down as head of events and hospitality services. Everyone here today is "executive". On the last occasion we had members of the board as well.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I understand the difference but I just wanted to clarify. Are the minutes of those board meetings published?