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- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: There is one strategic plan. It is running out this year.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: That plan featured in the Indecon report. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: No, it was not.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: That is correct. The plan ran from 2012 to 2017.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I have not even got to that, and I will not get to it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: My questions are all simple. They relate to the strategic plan and the year. I have got three different answers.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Very good. That featured in the Indecon report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: That is not what Mr. Murnane said.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It features in the Indecon report. The Indecon report goes through it meticulously. It says that the Bord na gCon targets were not met. The report pointed out serious concerns for what Bord na gCon could expect in 2013. For example, the first year of the strategic plan ended with a total group surplus of €40,000, compared with the planned figure of €238,000. The report...
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: No, I am referring to the premises overhead. I understand the second storey is empty. Does Bord na gCon have empty space in the Limerick premises?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: There are serious questions. I will come back to this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It was to do with terms.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It cannot.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Could Mr. Walsh repeat that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I hate to go back over Mr. Meaney's comment about whether someone is still beating his wife. We make comments - I have been known to do so - but that one was particularly unacceptable.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I do not want to personalise anything and if I do, the Chairman should correct me. It is not our role to personalise anything, but it is to ask questions. Mr. Meaney has been on the board since 2011. There have, therefore, been many reports on his watch. Was the Morris report issued in 2015?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: There was a report of the agriculture committee following a presentation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: All on Mr. Meaney's watch.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Without personalising it, there is a lack of trust. In fact, it was highlighted in the Morris report entitled, Irish Greyhound Board Anti-Doping and Medication Review. I presume Mr. Meaney has read these reports. There are serious problems with trust. According to page 3 of the Morris report it was noted-----