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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge (23 Jan 2018)

Catherine Connolly: 96. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an dtabharfaidh sí léiriú ar an dul chun cinn atá déanta ó thaobh na gcuspóirí atá leagtha amach sa Straitéis Fiche Bliain don Ghaeilge. [3087/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Legal Cases Data (23 Jan 2018)

Catherine Connolly: 192. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of complaints and judicial review cases, respectively, taken on by his Department relating to allegations of unfair and or unlawful public procurement procedures for the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3463/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Legal Cases (23 Jan 2018)

Catherine Connolly: 193. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of judicial review cases not taken due to the practice by Departments to seek security for costs, thus preventing a judicial review of possible unfair and-or unlawful public procurement procedures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3464/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (23 Jan 2018)

Catherine Connolly: 370. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which each of the recommendations of the emergency department task force report has been implemented, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2951/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Community Services Programme (23 Jan 2018)

Catherine Connolly: 547. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of community services resource centre programme applications received; when it is expected a decision will be made; the decision making process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2914/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Community Services Programme (23 Jan 2018)

Catherine Connolly: 548. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of applications received from Galway city and county in relation to the community services resource centre programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2915/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Foreshore Licence Applications (23 Jan 2018)

Catherine Connolly: 671. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the names and relevant expertise of each member of the marine licence vetting committee involved in both the statutory appropriate assessment screening and the statutory environmental impact assessment screening on a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3430/18]

Topical Issue Debate: Flood Risk Management (18 Jan 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I reluctantly say that the Minister of State's response is disappointing. I realise he is stepping in on behalf of the Minister but I asked a specific set of questions. What resources will be made available? What is the extent of the damage that has been communicated to the his Department? We need answers to them. Perhaps the full moon on the night explains some of the bewilderment on...

Topical Issue Debate: Flood Risk Management (18 Jan 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I praise the men on the ground in Galway, as well as some women who were there, who reacted to the flooding that happened. I will come to the flooding itself, the council's response and, more importantly, the response from the Department. My purpose in raising this is that we can learn, we can prevent future incidents and we can clarify precisely what resources are available to help Galway...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Only the Chair knows whether we will still be here.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Catherine Connolly: On that matter, I welcome that we have finally got the documentation. I had a quick look at it, as did a person in my office. It is very difficult for members to be presented with 409 pages of documentation. We could not possibly go through it for today's meeting. One then loses track of why we asked the question in the first place. To go back to the kernel of the question, an...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Catherine Connolly: The Health Service Executive.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Catherine Connolly: In view of the HSE commissioning this report which has so much content, I am beginning to wonder about the independence of independent reports, although that is no reflection on the company that carried out the work. I have to say that. It would seem to me, as a member of this committee, from the documentation that I have seen since I have been here,it is clear that not enough money was...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Is there a decision as to what we are doing with all of that information now? There is a commission of inquiry in respect of the Grace case.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Are we holding it over?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Catherine Connolly: That is fine.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Catherine Connolly: On consultants and legal firms.

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.