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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Dormant Accounts Fund (11 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: 53. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number and details of social enterprise projects in Galway city and county that benefitted from the €2 million dormant accounts fund allocation in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51857/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Climate Change Adaptation Plans (11 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: 71. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans, timeline and targets to meet the terms of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51854/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (11 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: 418. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which the national energy and climate plan will be informed by the principles of climate justice and just transition, climate science and the goals of the Paris Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51544/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Dormant Accounts Fund (11 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: 496. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the steps being taken to raise awareness of the Dormant Accounts Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51922/18]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: The Minister of State has been a little disingenuous.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: That comment cannot be let pass. One does not need a big local authority to undo Ballinasloe-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: That is okay. I just could not let it go.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: The Minister of State is probably tired of listening to me but I am not going to change my approach. My approach is based on the fact that I have read all three reports, on my experience as a city councillor for 17 years and on my knowledge that bigger is not better. The Minister of State is taking one aspect of the report, the recommendation of the proposed amalgamation and ignoring all the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Can I clarify one point?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: The Chairman probably is right. We understand, from Pieta House, that there were 55 pre-existing employees. It looks good that it offered 52 contracts, but these were to ten employees of Console and 42 persons on contracts for service. The Chairman is taking it that they are all included.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: They were called "employees" in the first sentence and then in the next sentence-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I do not mind that all. They are clearly calling them "employees" in the first sentence and in the second sentence they are not. There were only ten employees.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I am delighted, if that is the position. It is merely to clarify.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Maybe it is nothing. I do not mind. I am only asking the Chairman to clarify it as well.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I agree with you, Chairman, and I had the document earmarked. I do not understand why it is redacted. At the very least the Department should have explained it to us. It is a credit policy. I do not understand it. Maybe the Comptroller and Auditor General might help us on what might be sensitive in what is a document of general policy.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: That is one point. I agree with you on that, Chairman. I appreciate all the information the Department has given us. Thank you for following up on it, Chairman. I want to make a point about the waiting list.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I have before me the executive summary key points. It is on page 5.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Yes. Committee members will see the net need figures. There is an inset with the information. The figures on the waiting list have reduced. The total number of qualified households in 2018 has reduced significantly from 2017. That should be a good news story but it is important to clarify this. Let us consider the criteria set out on the page. Who is left out of the assessment? Anyone...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Connolly: We need to know the number of exclusions. I am referring to all those identified under the criteria.