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- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: The issue has reached crisis point. Deputy MacSharry raised an issue and the Secretary General said he was asked about value for money. This is not the only instance because I was there and know lots of land was bought. I do not know where the fault lies. I make no allegations and simply am talking about accountability. Huge segments of land were bought by councillors with the best of...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: No.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: Will there be a timespan in which the Department will complete a report?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: That is one thing. Separately, is the Secretary General aware of inquiries into housing in Galway on the inappropriate allocation of houses?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: All right. Can the Department play an oversight role? In my time a housing inquiry started but I do not know if it ever finished. I am not here to itemise a particular person. I am here for oversight. It was acknowledged that a house was inappropriately allocated separately from the recent stark headlines, which does not do anything for the perception of and confidence in a local system....
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: There is something seriously wrong somewhere in the oversight of a body where it is accepted that a house was inappropriately allocated by one member of staff to another, who I will not name. A housing inquiry was started by a new city manager. Where is the result? What has been learned? We do not know and now we have more screaming headlines as a result of an inquiry or an issue raised...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: Is there no mechanism coming back from that or from the Department to the association to ask what is going on, whether the inquiry has been concluded and what has been learned from it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: It is not staffing. It is the inappropriate allocation of a public house.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: It is from one staff member to another.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: Please. Mr. McCarthy is obfuscating. I am asking him what role the Department has in overseeing procedures when issues arise. It is not staff here, it is procedure and ethics. The manager confirmed there was a housing inquiry. When did it begin, when did it conclude and what was learned from it? Those are matters for the Department, surely, because it raises questions about all other...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: Has that particular one been brought to the Department's attention?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: I am not talking about the recent allegations. I am talking about going back two years now.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: My thanks.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: I have a number of specific questions and then I will go back to remediation sites and stuff. Have many applications come before the Department from groups on the ground looking for a site to build co-operative housing? There is great interest in Galway but they do not know where to go with that. Galway is a good example because a number of years ago, a co-operative site was used very...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: I am talking about a group of people coming forward, as they did last week in my office. They had the wherewithal to borrow money. Will the Department look favourably on such groups that came forward?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: Could they not do it without that status?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: The Chairman referred to housing loans. Is the Department actively giving people loans if they come forward? I understand that Galway City Council is not. I do not mean to be parochial.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Catherine Connolly: Will Mr. McCarthy tell me if it is still open?