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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (25 Sep 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I thought I had a grasp of the English language. I appreciate the Minister is doing his best but the new Department was to set up this co-ordinating unit. Whoever wrote that reply can go back and look at the paragraph in the programme for Government which states "within the new Department of ... Regional Development and Rural Affairs ..., we will task a coordinating unit to work with...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (25 Sep 2018)
Catherine Connolly: That was acknowledged in the reply.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (25 Sep 2018)
Catherine Connolly: 73. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the details of the co-ordinating unit within his Department pursuant to the programme for partnership Government that is tasked with working with communities to develop co-operative structures; when it was set up; the membership of the unit; the work programme of the unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38595/18]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (25 Sep 2018)
Catherine Connolly: My question is very specific. I am asking for details of the co-ordinating unit within the Minister's Department pursuant to A Programme for Partnership Government. It is on page 42 of that document. Under the impact assessment heading, which is very important, there was a promise to set up a co-ordinating unit to consider the impact assessment on rural communities of various decisions....
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dormant Accounts Fund (25 Sep 2018)
Catherine Connolly: 71. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the details and progress of projects earmarked for Galway city and county under the Dormant Accounts Action Plan 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38597/18]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dormant Accounts Fund (25 Sep 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I have a specific question on the details and progress of projects earmarked for Galway city and county under the Dormant Accounts Action Plan 2018. I ask this with the background that a substantial amount of the dormant accounts has been underspent. It has not been spent, while community groups are crying out for money. I ask for this to be clarified in the first instance.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dormant Accounts Fund (25 Sep 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister of State for trying to clarify the situation. I have read the action plan but I am not any wiser about Galway city and county. The Minister of State is telling me it will take a further Vote. I do not know what projects are earmarked for Galway city and county. There was more than a discussion with the Comptroller and Auditor General. He pointed out that over the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dormant Accounts Fund (25 Sep 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I did table a specific question but for some reason it became a general question. There must have been a misunderstanding somewhere in the Questions Office. I took the trouble of getting the action plan and going through it. Because it was so general I asked a specific question about the Department of Rural and Community Development but unfortunately the question is general across all...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Connolly: I welcome Mr. Fraser. I am looking at the President's Establishment. I do not want any comment on Áras an Uachtaráin or any President. I am looking at the President's Establishment's Appropriation Accounts. Mr. Fraser is responsible for these accounts and the responsibility to ensure there is proper financial control is on his shoulders. He is free to answer all my questions on...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Connolly: When did Mr. Fraser put the audit committee in place?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Connolly: So prior to spring of 2014, there was no audit committee in place. Why was that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Connolly: Why?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Connolly: Mr. Fraser signed the accounts on 29 March 2012, so he was the Accounting Officer for the previous year. At what stage did he take the decision to set up an audit committee? Would he accept that an audit committee is an essential ingredient?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Connolly: It is an essential ingredient of accountability. Why was there not one? How did Mr. Fraser take the decision to set one up?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Connolly: How long was Mr. Fraser there before it was set up?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Connolly: Maybe Mr. Fraser could check that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Connolly: I am coming to that. I thank Mr. McCarthy. As has already been acknowledged, I acknowledge that opinion of the Comptroller and Auditor General is that the Appropriation Account properly presents the receipts and expenditure of 2016, with adequate accounting records and so on. I accept that. I am looking at the controls and processes in place. That is all we are looking at in this...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Connolly: So that internal unit in the Department of the Taoiseach audits the President's Establishment, among other matters.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Connolly: Explain that to me.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Connolly: We are talking about the President's Establishment.