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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I think the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General should come back to us on what it needs. Is it the case that the money will allow the Comptroller and Auditor General to work on the third level?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Does additional work need to be done on other matters?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Connolly: We are here to achieve value for money and ensure accountability, but it is a case of David v. Goliath. What extra resources does Mr. McCarthy need?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I suggest we come back to how we can ensure greater accountability and the resources we need to do it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I am a little bit uncomfortable. I fully support Deputy Cullinane's concerns.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I am, however, a little concerned about where we will end up. We have a job to do regardless of what is said on local radio or in the newspapers.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Connolly: There is a difference in that it was the Accounting Officer and I fully support Deputy Cullinane on that. It is our job to ask questions, end of story, regardless of who says what on a radio or in a newspaper. I would not like it if we were obliged to deal with who said what in a radio broadcast. I do not mean Deputy Cullinane, who has raised a very serious issue to which I will return...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I ask that we be updated before then. Perhaps we should invite the president of Waterford Institute of Technology to return here. That might be a way to deal with the matter. The other-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Connolly: We can wait for that first.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I fully support him-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Connolly: -----in terms of his concerns. A huge amount of work went into this and he was very fair about the spin-off companies. I have serious concerns about the unaccountability of spin-off companies. That is a whole new area for this committee that has only been touched on - a ripple on the water. Where is the report?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I did not agree with that, and I still do not.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Connolly: The committee bringing in the approved housing bodies.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I am sorry.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Connolly: We are coming back to discuss it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Therefore, if we start at 10.30 a.m, we could finish at 1.30 p.m.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Connolly: We are undermining ourselves in trying to do all of this.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Is the Housing Agency also the body that deals with sustainable-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Connolly: It calls itself-----