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Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Operating with the best data available at the time, has the board accepted the report?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I do not mean this personally, but that does not reassure me about there being a new approach for a semi-State body that receives €16.7 million. Its funding has increased every year, has it not?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Did it go up in 2018?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)

Catherine Connolly: As everything else goes down, public money goes up. I am all for public services and public bodies. I am no expert, but I have looked at the report and it outlines serious concerns. It tells the IGB that "Both from a welfare and from a financial perspective, the industry must now move to put racing at the centre of what it does". I might have my own views on whether that is appropriate,...

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)

Catherine Connolly: It is not fair to do this, but I can pick anything out from the report. It reads, "Dog Pool Size is out of control". It also states that, leaving emotion out of it, too many dogs are being bred. As a result, they end up being culled because too many are being bred, or they are exported. It is there in black and white. It reads, "Leaving aside emotions with respect to the culling of dogs...

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)

Catherine Connolly: When the witnesses watched the RTÉ programme, other than making a complaint to the Broadcast Authority of Ireland, as they were perfectly entitled to do, what was their reaction to what they had seen in the context of animal welfare and what the industry had allowed to happen? What were their feelings about it?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Appalling. I thank Mr. Dollard for his very straight and honest answer. As was the case for many other issues, including some relating to Tusla and the health board, it was the "RTÉ Investigates" programme that pushed change. It is difficult to understand that. On welfare, does Bord na gCon make contributions to animal welfare organisations that work independently of it? If so, I...

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)

Catherine Connolly: It was sent to the agriculture committee.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Are any members of those organisations on the board of the trust? Is there a welfare trust?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Who is on the board of the trust?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Is there a representative of the animal welfare organisations on that trust?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I wish to be provided with a list of the members of that board. Mr. Dollard's answer was that no animal welfare organisations are represented on the trust.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Could such a representative be added to the trust?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)

Catherine Connolly: In fairness, the break is for the witnesses.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medical Services (24 Sep 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 19. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 30 of 26 February 2019, if a psychiatrist for the Defence Forces has been appointed following the retirement of the in-house psychiatrist in May 2018; the number of personnel awaiting referral to a psychiatrist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38544/19]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Operations (24 Sep 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 23. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of times the Defence Forces have been called on to perform aid to the civil power duties at Shannon Airport to date in 2019; the nature of the activities carried out; the dates on which those duties were performed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38545/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (24 Sep 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 308. To ask the Minister for Health the weighting percentages to be used as part of the upcoming HSE FreeStyle Libre review decision making process to be given to criteria (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38443/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (24 Sep 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 309. To ask the Minister for Health if the reimbursement data set will specifically cover only current HSE funded users of the FreeStyle Libre device; if not, if the Health Technology Assessment Group review will compare total blood glucose strip usage spend year on year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38444/19]

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Gnó an Chomhchoiste (24 Sep 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Cuirim fáilte roimh na Teachtaí Dála agus na Seanadóirí go léir. Tá an Roinn Cosanta os ár gcomhair inniu agus táim ag tnúth leis an gcur i láthair ó thaobh na Gaeilge de. Inár measc tá an tUasal Ronan Mulhall, príomhoifigeach an bhrainse acmhainní daonna agus an tUasal Siobhán Tutty-Bardon,...

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Gnó an Chomhchoiste (24 Sep 2019)

Catherine Connolly: An bhfuil aon rud le rá ag an Uasal Tutty-Bardon? Níl ag an bpointe seo. Beidh ceisteanna anois. Gabhaim buíochas leis an Roinn as an gceistneoir a chomhlíonadh. Téann sé siar go dtí Eanáir 2017 - sin dhá bhliain go leith ó shin. Ag an am sin ní raibh an scéim teanga réitithe. Cad é stádas an phlean teanga faoi...