Results 16,041-16,060 of 33,058 for speaker:Catherine Connolly
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That is okay. They are not published.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Somebody would have to seek them under freedom of information. Mr. Dollard then serves the board, is that right? He would be at every meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Lovely. Has it ever come up in the interests of openness and accountability that the board meetings would be published?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I hear what Mr. Dollard is telling me. I will think about that. On the RTÉ programme, I only watched it last night because I could not bear to watch it. It goes back to June, does it not?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Following that programme, what happened? Did the board meet? Was the RTÉ programme down on an agenda? Was it discussed? What was Mr. Dollard's own reaction to it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: What does that mean?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Has that item remained on the agenda of the board since? I refer to welfare.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: How frequently does the board meet?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: It has been on the agenda every month.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That is very good. Let me go back. As a result of the programme, there was a meeting within two days and a range of measures were taken. Was there already a fostering programme in place?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: The board put-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Okay. What else was done?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: The rehoming initiative has always been there but more money was put into it. Were there any new initiatives?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: They are new initiatives.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I will come back to the question of why we needed an RTÉ programme to lead to these initiatives. First I want to establish what they were. What are the care centres that are gone out to tender?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: For the first time, there is going to be a forever home rather than the homes they were getting up to now.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: When was that entity set up?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Okay. The board is going to tender for this care centre. What money has been allocated for that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That is 50% of all sponsorship.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I would prefer not to try to guess. I did not see it spelled out anywhere, but perhaps I missed it. However, I do not think it is.