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Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2016
Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Liquidation (14 Dec 2017)

Catherine Connolly: What about the option of holding onto it, with the dividend coming back to the Exchequer?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2016
Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Liquidation (14 Dec 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Was there analysis of that idea of holding onto the 100% and receiving the dividend from a profitable bank?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2016
Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Liquidation (14 Dec 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I am delighted that I have asked one good question.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2016
Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Liquidation (14 Dec 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Did the Department consider holding on to it, and keeping the dividend?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2016
Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Liquidation (14 Dec 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Why was that not pursued?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2016
Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Liquidation (14 Dec 2017)

Catherine Connolly: It is a policy decision, in the first instance.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2016
Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Liquidation (14 Dec 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Second, learning that bank shares are risky might be a lesson worth learning but there are many other exercises that are worth learning from the debacle over the last ten years. The wisdom of putting State funds into speculative banks is one very serious lesson, and there are many others, but obviously the witnesses are not policy makers. My second point related to value for money. I...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2016
Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Liquidation (14 Dec 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Was it a good decision?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2016
Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Liquidation (14 Dec 2017)

Catherine Connolly: That is in the future, and in the meantime, taxpayers cannot get houses, they cannot get healthcare and so on. We know what the problems are, the point is that officials such as the witnesses are making no connection between the two things. We are talking about this language as though it is a special language, which exists independently with no implications. Mr. Carville shuddered at the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2016
Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Liquidation (14 Dec 2017)

Catherine Connolly: How much went into Anglo Irish Bank?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2016
Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Liquidation (14 Dec 2017)

Catherine Connolly: It is like Monopoly. I have often used the phrase Monopoly money here. The State did not save that bank. It was a basket case. It was not saved. Is it not the case that what we did was to put money in a circular movement from taxpayers, through the Government, to pay off creditors, bondholders, unsecured bondholders and so on? They were too big to let fail.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2016
Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Liquidation (14 Dec 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Would it have collapsed if the money had not gone into Anglo Irish Bank?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Commencement of Legislation (14 Dec 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 335. To ask the Minister for Health when the provisions of the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 will be made fully applicable to all counsellors including abortion counsellors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53592/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Commencement of Legislation (14 Dec 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 336. To ask the Minister for Health if the two year transition period which has applied to other professions under the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 will apply to counsellors; his plans to shorten or eliminate this transition period on the grounds of urgency or on other grounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53593/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Dec 2017)

Catherine Connolly: The programme for Government acknowledges the commission of investigation into 14 mother and baby homes and ancillary issues. In March of this year, the discovery of juvenile human remains in significant quantities in sub-surface chambers on the site of an historic sewage system was reported. Following that discovery, an expert technical group was set up on 1 June. Commendably, it reported...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (13 Dec 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 71. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efforts being made to encourage the international community to take action against the government of Myanmar in view of the recent escalation of violence in Rakhine State, Myanmar; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53376/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Agencies Data (13 Dec 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 124. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the divisions and agencies under the remit of his Department and its agencies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53333/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Operations (13 Dec 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 125. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deep dives, including the date, agency and division, undertaken by his Department pursuant to the Toland report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53334/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Communications (13 Dec 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 126. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the communications protocol governing communications between his Department and An Garda Síochána will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53335/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Communications (13 Dec 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 128. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps being taken to improve departmental oversight of An Garda Síochána; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53337/17]