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- Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (25 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: The question is very clear. I asked the Minister of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of social housing units that will be completed in 2017 and in each of the five years thereafter. I then go on to ask for further information. At this point, we are looking at 14 houses this year, with a bit of luck, in a city which has 15,000 people on a waiting list. The only...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I thank the Department for getting back to us. It gave us three letters. The web of intricacy is becoming more apparent and I would like the help of the Comptroller and Auditor General in this instance. I ask that we deal with Caranua, with other correspondence. It has come back to us to clarify that it is paying rent.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Most other Deputies and I raised this matter. I asked whether Caranua was paying rent. I checked the accounts with the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General to determine whether I had missed something and was told that no rent was being paid. I asked on the day whether rent was being paid and the CEO said no but that it would be paying rent as it was about to move into the private...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Why did the OPW not charge rent for three years? Why was there a policy change?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: That is the crucial question. I do not know if the Comptroller and Auditor General is right, in the sense that he is 99% of the time, but it has been confirmed to us in correspondence that rent totalling €50,000 was paid over as part of the extension. When the chief executive officer was in, we clearly asked if it was paying rent and she said it was not but it was going to. She did...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: She has corrected that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: She said she was wrong.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I think we are all of the mind that rent should not be paid.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: The precedent has been there for three years.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I asked for reports and I got some. The fault may be mine as I probably limited them to the word "audit". I would like a copy of all external reports of any nature, although nothing to do with clients or suppliers, that Caranua got and paid for. I would like a list with names and cost. For example, we know about Mazars and Capita but there were many more. There is a list that includes...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Deputy McDonald made a very practical suggestion, but I despair of this. We are being treated like children in a school. Our role is to do a job as best we can in the fairest way we can. The challenge is to continue to do that regardless of what somebody puts into a newspaper. It places a higher onus on us to question rigorously but fairly. If I go back to the Commissioner, there were...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Mr. Barrett's.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Yes, but he referred to it at the time and continued to speak from it at the time. That in itself needs to be reflected on because it was produced on the day. In fairness to the Commissioner and the rest of us, we did not have a copy of it and it was not in context. That is just by way of example. We could go on forever talking about leaks to the papers. We should have as few private...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It was submitted to make an important point about something that was said at a meeting of this committee, which she says was incorrect.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I agree with the Chairman but it is important that-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: The issue is that she had at all times planned to go back to work, which was not said. That is what is important.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Is there a general issue there? I do not know who wrote that letter, I cannot see the bottom of it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It refers to Console as a private organisation on one hand. On the other hand, it gets public funds. He says the public funds are limited to certain services. Then it is a charity. We have a charity regulator and a charity authority that is not fully resourced. Perhaps we could get an update on that. We have been here for a year and three months - I know Deputy McDonald has been here...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Why are they not consolidated?