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- 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-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)
Catherine Connolly: The Comptroller and Auditor General audits the accounts of the Housing Agency, but he does not audit the accounts of the Housing Finance Agency.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Will the Chairman clarify why that is the case?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)
Catherine Connolly: The majority of its funds are commercial.