Results 221-240 of 866 for speaker:Cathy Bennett
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: Are they hired by the Oireachtas?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: Is Mr. Finnegan saying that the broadcasters would have a good case to bring to the workers' union in relation to this as other staff in the Oireachtas are employed full-time, but the broadcasters cannot get full-time contracts?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: However, there are financial assets worth €942,000 in printers.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: Is the printer that is already in place not operational any more?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: What is that used for?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: Is that operational yet?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: Is it still operational?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: In relation to termination contracts, there seems to be quite a lot of money spent on termination contracts in the past year. How many employees would have-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: On non-compliant costs, I noticed cleaning was non-compliant for three years in a row. Why would that be?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: In 2024, there was €510,000 that was non-compliant. To console us for this year, is there going to be any non-compliance in 2025?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: Is there no non-compliance in 2025?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: Has it already gone out to tender for 2026? Mr. Finnegan said they have to prepare in advance each year to make sure that they were compliant.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: I am referring to the cleaning.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: What are the five years of that contracts?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: That contract was signed in 2024 and it was non-compliant to the amount of €510,000.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: Going forward now from 2024, will there be no non-compliance for cleaning next year?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: You are working on the IT infrastructure. Is there any non-compliance there?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: Is everything up and running okay?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: A lot of the Departments and the witnesses we have had before us have had issues with IT systems. They are not working properly for them, or they have lost money on them. They have had systems put in place that have not worked properly. Is there any of that within the Oireachtas?