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

Catherine Connolly: The Chairman is signalling me to stop, so I will raise just two other matters. Indecon or the agriculture committee - I am not sure which - made a recommendation to examine all racing tracks to see what debt they had, what advantages they had and where IGB was going with them. Has that been carried out?

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

Catherine Connolly: There was a recommendation.

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

Catherine Connolly: Is there an assessment anywhere that IGB, or somebody on its behalf, has carried out of all of these racing tracks, as recommended, and if so, where can I find it?

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

Catherine Connolly: Is the land in Galway owned by Bord na gCon?

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

Catherine Connolly: I ask the witnesses to explain to me about Galway.

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

Catherine Connolly: Is Bord na gCon leasing it?

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]