Results 24,801-24,820 of 33,044 for speaker:Catherine Connolly
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I would like to support that. It was clarified that there was a policy of open disclosure, which was supposed to change all of this. The point is validly made; when did the policy come in and what have been the changes since then? In my own experience, with serious issues of medical negligence people are most reluctant to go down the court route. They are actually forced down it. It is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Has the committee been updated on the work of the Cooke commission?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Catherine Connolly: The person from the Irish Environmental Forum who wrote to me was most anxious that the correspondence would come to the attention of the committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I agree with what the Chairman has asked for. It would be very helpful to us. The figure for Kerry was €1 million, we skipped over it. We are down to Galway and Roscommon and here we have almost €1 million. How do we put this into context? It is awfully important for trust. Bringing it down to a practical level, it is important for local services and for businesses that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Or people could contrive it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I would welcome that report and a proper analysis and discussion of it. The HSE has one of the biggest budgets, after social welfare, in computers and so on, and from what I can see, as a non-expert, it seems that despite all this procurement, there is less and less competition regarding contracts of huge value. It is urgent that we put it on the committee's work programme, that we get a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Will the Comptroller and Auditor General explain that account?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Is it the redress scheme?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Has the account been closed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Is it just a matter of deciding what will happen to that money?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Was that done under the original redress scheme that was set up years ago?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I just wanted a reminder. It was all set out under the Comptroller and Auditor General's special chapter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I want to talk about the going concern note for Bord na gCon. Has the Comptroller and Auditor General accepted that the financial statements are a going concern?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I have a quick question on today's change of agenda. I have no problem with it, but was it as a result of SOLAS?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Yes, did they ask for a change?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Catherine Connolly: That is okay. I just want to know.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Catherine Connolly: That is what I thought. I was geared up for it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
Catherine Connolly: That is all right. It was from them.