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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Connolly: That would be helpful.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Set up to do.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Connolly: That is similar to the question I was asking. I have a card and it runs out. What is the cost of its renewal? Is that is the question Deputy Murphy was asking?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Connolly: That will take some time. We also have to deal with the Pálás Cinema.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Connolly: We will need time to discuss that. We proposed discussing the Pálás Cinema.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I was a barrister in the past.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Connolly: That is relevant to the previous discussion.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Tá fáilte romhat. Gabhaim buíochas as na cáipéisí uilig atá faighte agam. I thank the witnesses for having a clear audit, except for the two items that were raised. One, procurement, has been dealt with and the other is in regard to asset management. What progress has been made in regard to asset management?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Connolly: We will not go back on that. What progress has been made since then?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Connolly: When will it be complete, with everything on the asset register, give or take a few pieces of equipment?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Where it says it is scheduled for completion in 2021, will that be an updated asset register?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Something that caught my attention on page 18 of the accounts is the school milk and fruit scheme, on which it appears the Department has commissioned University College Dublin to carry out an evaluation. Is the figure €555,000 for the school milk and fruit scheme?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I was delighted to see it but I am trying to see where it fits in. I was in a number of schools lately in regard to the hot school meals programme. Although it has nothing to do with the Department, that programme is very ad hocand some schools have got it that one would not think should have got it, while others schools did not get it. There is also the ongoing meals programme. Is this...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Are we paying the university €555,000 to tell us that fruit is good for us and that an apple a day keeps the doctor away?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I would like to hear a little more on that, if Mr. Gleeson does not mind. Theoretically, it is an excellent programme. It strikes me as an awful lot of money to tell us to eat an apple a day. I am thinking of the bigger picture of where money should be going. I know of schools on the ground that are not getting the benefit of food. This is the third one. It is in that context that I...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Connolly: If Mr. Gleeson can make it available to me, that would be great.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Lovely. That is great.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Unfortunately, it is a big ship to be turned around, to adopt the terminology that has been used. Mr. Gleeson is not a captain, if we are going to go down the road of that language. Mr. Gleeson and his colleagues in the Department will need to be retrained. I do not mean that in a flippant way. We are all facing the same challenges in respect of climate change. What resources are...