Results 26,241-26,260 of 33,058 for speaker:Catherine Connolly
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I would like to add my voice to that. I have received the same correspondence. Deputy Murphy raised the matter in the Dáil yesterday. It is something that we need to revert to-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: -----in terms of value for money and taking people who have to go on this course and cannot go on other courses that are far more-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Yes. Value for money is an issue. At some stage, we will need to examine the matter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: They are not individual complaints.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It is more systemic.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It has all been said. On the previous occasion I asked for the Department of Justice and Equality, as the most important Department in the context of this issue, to come before the committee so I have no difficulty with it doing so whatsoever. However, I believe we must be clear what is our remit. It has been said, and I will not repeat it, that we should not stray into the remit of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I thank staff for the excellent work and overview for all of us about the Comptroller and Auditor General's report. It is worth reading. I have not read it in detail but I have read a significant amount. The Chairman said we are going to cover most or all of it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: That is right. I would like an individual breakdown. All chapters are very interesting but a specific one seems parochial yet is of huge significance, the Solas cinema in Galway, which is a disaster.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Will that come up in due course?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It is unusual to have one specific issue in a chapter in a national report. It is of such significance that it appears in this report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Dormant accounts are also significant.
- Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Congratulations on the clear audit. The witnesses will forgive me if I do not use the rest of my ten minutes for congratulatory words but well done to the team. I was going to raise the last point raised by Deputy MacSharry but he has addressed it very comprehensively so I will not repeat it but it struck me as odd in the extreme that this money was used. Was a business case done for that?...
- Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: There are serious questions to be answered by the Government regarding the policy that allowed that to happen and the cost of jobs, which I will not have time to address but which I will return to. It involves the cost of the creation of jobs under the IDA Ireland programme compared to the cost of the creation of jobs with the comharchumainn. It is a debate that needs to happen. I note...
- Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I have about eight minutes.
- Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I do not need the context; I am very familiar with it and we have learned a lot through the Comptroller and Auditor General in our year and a half on the committee. My specific question concerns Galway city.
- Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: We are not talking about nuclear options. We are not talking about having no industry rather we are talking about sensible development. If we look at Galway city where the councillors, who were often criticised in the past and rightly so, did their job, we can see that the land was zoned industrial on both sides of the city. There is a great shortage of industrial development on the west...
- Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I do not need a list.
- Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Galway west is an option. Is it something IDA Ireland is actively looking at?
- Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I have other questions to ask but I wish to comment on that. We need development. I am the first to promote development and a thriving economy in Galway but we need sensible balanced development. When industry is located in one area, it creates huge problems relating to traffic and housing and Mr. Shanahan knows that. Mr. Shanahan has given me a general answer. I will be following it up...
- Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Absolutely. The Comptroller and Auditor General's role is simply to give us the report, and I accept that. To say that there is an effective tax rate higher than that given by the Comptroller and Auditor General, however, is not acceptable.