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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: What type of information can be abridged or left out?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: There are statements on PPPs in the Dáil later. We should make these documents known to all Deputies in order that they can read it before they contribute to the debate. The letter is helpful. It is the beginning of our trawl for information and I am glad we received it. I agree that we should examine PPPs in detail. I raised the successful legal challenge relating to the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I sat on the VEC for ten years. We have been told it was the cheaper way to go. I cannot see any evidence that it is.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Good. Now we are saying that, many years after spending millions of euro of public money.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: There is no evidence at all.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: It is not a hornet's nest. I have witnessed an empty Dáil on many occasions where Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have not spoken on many topics.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I have watched an empty Dáil where there were an amount of slots. I have not seen the Chairman queuing up to speak.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Which is the big issue?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Can I clarify something?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Am I correct that there are 71 landfill sites currently classified as high risk and we are getting information on ten that have been completed?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I will come back to it. There is considerable detail here.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: There is, on the next page.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I want to indicate to speak for the next session.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I want to reserve and read the correspondence in respect of Foras na Gaeilge. I asked for the business case submitted to the Department for Foras na Gaeilge. I have read the correspondence. It refers to the business case for the North-South body that oversees it, but there is no business case in respect of what was submitted to the Department on the costs of moving into the new building etc.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I presume there was a business case before there was approval from the Department. I thank Ms Licken, the Secretary General for the information so far and the further information on the Galway Picture Palace that is even more enlightening. I welcome the review that is going to be carried out. I would like clarification on when that is going to happen.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Yes. The correspondence confirms that a post-project review will be undertaken of the Solas project in accordance with the requirement.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: It continues that the review will be published when complete. It does not say when it is going to start.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: It does say that work has commenced on the proposed methodology of the review. When is the review actually going to start and when will it be completed? I refer also to information on the business case for Foras na Gaeilge.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: It has all been said. I want to add that for a long time I sat on a health forum in the west and we objected to the privatisation of services and the running down of State laboratories. We pointed out the problems and that there was a lack of control, yet the outsourcing of testing went ahead. Obviously we can make mistakes in our own country but what we were concerned about is that the...