Results 25,901-25,920 of 33,058 for speaker:Catherine Connolly
- Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017) Catherine Connolly: It relates to non-compliance with the signing of the service arrangement. The HSE introduced a penalty.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017) Catherine Connolly: The consequence was that a percentage of the funding was held back. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017) Catherine Connolly: That is fine. I am not into punishment, believe it or not. I just wanted to know what Mr. O'Brien has learned from that. It related to one aspect, the timeliness of signing the arrangement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017) Catherine Connolly: That is only one aspect, the timeliness. Has Mr. O'Brien evaluated that to see how it could be applied in that positive manner in respect of other faults?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017) Catherine Connolly: I have only two practical questions, one of which concerns the cost of the Deloitte report, which Mr. O'Brien previously gave but which I have forgotten. Last year after Mr. O'Brien appeared before us, he sent a comprehensive letter setting out the cost of the audit committee and of the compliance unit. Could he update us on that? He told us at that point that the internal audit function...
- Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017) Catherine Connolly: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017) Catherine Connolly: Just the cost of the Deloitte-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017) Catherine Connolly: Ten thousand euro in total?
- Tracker Mortgages: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I thank Fianna Fáil for tabling this motion and I welcome the opportunity to make a quick contribution to the debate. It is significant that yesterday it was announced that the former Taoiseach, Deputy Kenny, has joined the distinguished Speakers Associates agency of London as an after-dinner speaker at €22,000 a talk. This captures what Fine Gael and to some extent Fianna...
- Other Questions: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (25 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: That is the same reply I got over a month ago, at which stage the Minister told me in a written reply that the report was nearing completion. Over a month later he is telling me the same thing. I do not wish to argue with the Minister at all, but he must place this question and answer in the context of people who are extremely upset. My office is in constant receipt of urgent...
- Other Questions: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (25 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I appreciate that the Minister is referring to changes that have been brought in but I do not know whether he appreciates the seriousness of what I have just said about the representations to my office, and I am not alone in this regard. Someone has gone on hunger strike. I am only repeating what he has told my office and a number of other people, and for the second time we have passed that...
- Other Questions: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (25 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: 51. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the review of Caranua; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45000/17]
- Other Questions: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (25 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: What is the status of the review of Caranua? Has it been completed and when is it to be published? When will it be discussed in the House? The Minister knows there is a background to the issue and that the Dáil debated having a full review, as was promised from the beginning. He is also aware of the upset among applicants to Caranua. While I will not dwell on it at this point, I...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (25 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: 56. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the introduction by Caranua of new guidelines pertaining to obtaining support for funeral expenses, in particular, the requirement that service users divulge their personal circumstances to prospective funeral directors and in order to avail of support for funeral services the service users sign up to the new €15,000 limit;...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (25 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: 130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the qualifications of and training given to all Caranua staff, in particular to all application advisors in view of their particular role to offer support, information, advice and advocacy to those who have received awards from a court settlement or the redress board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45164/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (25 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: 131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the 2016 annual report of the appeals officer of Caranua will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45165/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (25 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: 132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 424 of 20 June 2017, the number of outstanding appeals at Caranua; the length of time those appeals are outstanding; when it is expected that the backlog will be cleared; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45166/17]
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I wish to share time with Deputies Joan Collins and Michael Fitzmaurice. I wonder what to say in the three minutes I have. I do not address my comments to the Minister of State or Fianna Fáil or the Labour Party because I have lost all faith. My role and the role of the Opposition is to give confidence to the people outside the House that there are people in here who do not believe...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: How much is in it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Is that in regard to this qualified audit then?