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Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: How long?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: What does IGB pay for that?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: To go back, was it not a clear recommendation that IGB would look at all of its assets and see what was possible? For instance, if we move to the Comptroller and Auditor General's report, he gives you a clear audit, I think, with a caution in respect of a going concern. It is a going concern because of Government assistance. Is that not correct? What do the figures for 2016 show?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: My question was what the figures for 2016 indicate. In 2015, it was barely a going a concern. Is 2016 showing the same thing, leaving aside the debt?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: IGB had a strategic plan; it has run out of date. It has made a small number of updates as a result of the Indecon report. It was highlighted that IGB needed to look at its strategic plan and at all the racing tracks and needed to look to see what it would do with them. That really has not been done.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I will ask my last question, which goes back to stakeholders. This was not something that was pulled out of the sky. The establishment of a stakeholders forum was a strong recommendation. It was recommended that all relevant stakeholders be on it, including the Department. That really did not happen in any formal way, inasmuch as IGB did not tell anyone a new forum was being set up and...

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Mr. Meaney has already said that, and I heard him, but the whole point of the new forum was to rebuild trust. Anyway, I have said it-----

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: When the board is giving the documents could we get clarification on the premises in Limerick that is supposed to be empty overhead? I forgot to come to it. Why is it empty and how long has it been empty?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge Yield (18 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 17. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason for the under-performance of USC in the January to February period of 2017; the difference in the projected and actual intake; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23363/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland Enforcement Actions (18 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 26. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of all fines paid, including the monetary value and transgression for each individual fine, by a bank (details supplied) since the State acquired a majority stake in the bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23364/17]

Topical Issue Debate: Forest Fires (17 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome what the Minister of State is setting out but the difficulty is gorse fires have raged across all the west, with serious damage being done. This is not the first year it has happened and it has been ongoing for years. I welcome that the Department is taking satellite images, examining the damage and will take prosecutions if it can, that has simply not worked to date. A red alert...

Topical Issue Debate: Forest Fires (17 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Last week I raised the matter of the forest fires that raged in Connemara all that week. I wish to pay tribute to the staff on the ground, the Air Corps, the Army, the Garda, the National Parks and Wildlife Service, the staff of Coillte and muintir na háite iad fein. However, when I raised the matter last week, I got a five-page response from one of the Minister of State's colleagues...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Remuneration (17 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 44. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if sailors in the Naval Service who served on migrant rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea received the extra payments agreed in November 2016; the reason for the delay in payment; the steps he will take to ensure that future such payments will not be delayed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23265/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Remuneration (17 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 54. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the numbers of members of the Defence Forces who must rely or relied on family income supplement to survive in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23266/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Service Staff (17 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 88. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 16 of 30 March 2017, the number of new staff hires who are engaged in the provision of services in the area of international protection; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23382/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Service Staff (17 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 89. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 16 of 30 March 2017, the position or title of each of the new 15 staff; the date that each of the new staff members' contracts began; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23383/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Service Staff (17 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 90. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 16 of 30 March 2017, if she has conducted her own inquiries and is satisfied that the extra funding given to the Legal Aid Board in December 2016 for international protection clients was used solely for positions relating to international protection staff commencing after the funds were...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Service Staff (17 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 91. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 16 of 30 March 2017, the oversight or auditing in place to ensure that funds provided to the Legal Aid Board for services to international protection applicants is ring-fenced and used only for that purpose; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23385/17]

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Plean Infheistíochta agus Scéimeanna Teanga (Atógáil): An tAire Stáit ag an Roinn Ealaíon, Oidhreachta, Gnóthaí Réigiúnacha, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta (16 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit, an Teachta Seán Kyne. Tá fhios agam go raibh muid go léir faoi bhrú. Gabh mo leithscéal más rud é go raibh mé ro-dhian ar an Aire Stáit an uair dheireanach. Níor lig mé dó an rud a chríochnú ach bhí mé ag iarraidh deis a thabhairt do bhaill an choiste ceisteanna a chur.

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Plean Infheistíochta agus Scéimeanna Teanga (Atógáil): An tAire Stáit ag an Roinn Ealaíon, Oidhreachta, Gnóthaí Réigiúnacha, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta (16 May 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Go raibh maith agat. Tá céad míle fáilte roimh na gasúir. Lean ar aghaidh arís.