Results 28,161-28,180 of 33,115 for speaker:Catherine Connolly

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: It is recorded in the minutes that the Minister for Education and Skills did not give permission for the refurbishment of the premises. Deputy Thomas Byrne, who raised this issue, has left the meeting but I want it clarified that permission was not given. The Department of Education and Skills did not give permission for the refurbishment of the premises. That is recorded in the minutes....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I again put it to the witness that a report on the Towards Healing website states that the cut-off point has changed to 40 from January 2016. The witness is not aware of that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the witness for clarifying that. I also asked about a waiting list. The organisation in March 2014 was described as a shambles. We are now in 2017 by the witnesses' own admission, there is an eight-month waiting list. Survivors say the list is longer but I will use the witnesses' figure of eight months. The length of the waiting list has not been addressed, notwithstanding that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: How can Mr. O'Callaghan stand over that delay of eight months? Did the Minister give permission for all the contracts signed up to by Caranua? Again, I am addressing all of these questions to Mr. O'Callaghan. The breach of legislation was very serious. It was not just in regard to suppliers, it was in respect of the information received from the redress board. That information was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Mr. O'Callaghan has been re-appointed as chairman of Caranua. I would appreciate if the Chairman allowed me finish. We have heard from the CEO and Mr. O'Callaghan that Caranua is survivor-centred and so on. I do not see evidence of that. I am here to ask questions and I am, therefore, asking questions. If nothing was learned from a breach of legislation and the witnesses are not even...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I am not saying that. I beg the Chairman's pardon. I am extremely-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I will tell the Chairman exactly where it was recorded. It was recorded in the minutes. The majority of the board apologised for the breach of legislation. The Minister was very concerned by the breach of legislation, as were the survivors, but the board was not aware of it until it was brought to its attention, notwithstanding that legal advice had been given on it. Mr. O'Callaghan has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I want the figure for the full amount that is left. Where do the decisions the chairman referred to about a cut-off date figure in the minutes? The only minutes I have not seen are those of the last March meeting. I would like an answer those questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I am sorry. The board accepted it, not me. The board apologised for the breach of legislation brought to its attention.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: There were subsequent breaches but the Chairman does not want me to go into those.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I did not say anything at all because the Chairman interrupted me. I realise that I am extra to the committee, so to speak. It was the clarification-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I am finished. I am sorry; it was the decisions. When the chairman sends out a letter, he knows well that it has to be clear, according to the legislation. It has to be a decision, so the survivor can appeal that decision. Is he aware at this precise time how many survivors have received letters that are not clear and therefore they cannot appeal? Some were sorted out by the appeals...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: The waiting list.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: It is about the waiting list.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad (30 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 73. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will clarify the indications he has received from President el-Sisi of Egypt that he will exercise his presidential powers to return a person (details supplied) to Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25607/17]

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: That was additional.

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 8. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of social housing units that will be completed in Galway city in 2017 and in each of the next five years; the locations in which this construction will take place; the expected number of social housing units coming into the ownership of the city council in 2017 and in each of the next five years under the...

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I checked with someone on the social housing waiting list in Galway before I came to the Chamber. That person went on the waiting list in 2002. That is more than 15 years ago. During that period, the person in question has never once been offered a home by either the local authority or an approved housing body. My question is very specific: in light of that extraordinary list, what direct...

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I am asking specifically how many will be built.

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I am not clear. I welcome that the Minister of State is concerned and that he is saying that houses will be built. I am asking a very specific question, which I asked in the written form. How many city council houses will be completed this year and in each of the next five years? The most recent figure we got for the waiting list was 4,720 households going back to 2002. At a conservative...