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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: I welcome the extra staff for housing but I understand they are being used mostly for HAP and not for maintenance or doing up empty houses or to support the staff who are under strain trying to allocate houses. They have been taken on specifically for the housing assistance payment. Is that correct?
- 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: For every HAP applicant, they get a special extra-----
- 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 of tendering has come up. It goes back to issues that were aired. At council level, we repeatedly asked for services such as legal and auctioneer services to be tendered out. Has that happened generally in local authorities? Are these services being tendered out?
- 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: They are not ad hoc, they are serious issues. As Deputy Cassells, I spent a long time at local council and we repeatedly asked for that. There was often one preferred company or group. It is a small country so I will not name names. It was the same with valuations. I do not recall any in-house valuation in my time, but I will revert on this matter. I understood that there was a preferred...
- 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: Explain that for the public. What does "third party costs" mean?
- 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: Mr. McCarthy said 214 of the 312.
- 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: What is the breakdown of the overall figure in terms of legal costs, building rental and salaries?
- 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 we have a copy of that breakdown?
- 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 final question is on the land remediation figures. Are they a mixture of public and private landfill sites?
- 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: Some €126.487 million was spent on 51 landfill sites. Was that a one-off payment?
- 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: Kildare.
- 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: Does any money come back from the private owners?
- Traveller Ethnicity: Statements (1 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Déanaim comhghairdeachas leis an Taoiseach, an Aire agus an Rialtas as ucht an éacht atá déanta acu anocht. Amach anseo agus an Taoiseach i mbun machnaimh ar a thréimhse mar Thaoiseach, tá súil agam go mbreathnóidh sé siar ar an oíche thar a bheith stairiúil seo mar cheann de na buaicphointí dá thréimhse mar Thaoiseach....
- Insurance Industry: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I thank Deputy Michael McGrath for tabling this motion. I have no hesitation in supporting it. I want to say there is quite a lot of merit in what my colleague, Deputy Boyd Barrett, has said in respect of a State insurance company. It should be looked at. Since the 1980s, the compensation fund has advanced moneys to the former PMPA, to the former Insurance Corporation of Ireland, to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Schools Building Projects (1 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: 23. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that have been taken, or are being taken, to build a new secondary school in Galway city in view of the provision in the programme for Government that school provision will reflect the diversity of 21st century Ireland and in view of the clear need and demand for a new second level school in Galway city and the waiting lists for...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Schools Building Projects (1 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I tabled a question to the Minister last month and I am back on the same subject because I am unhappy - more importantly, the group behind the request for a new Educate Together school in Galway is most unhappy - with the response. Given that there are five primary schools under the Educate Together banner, given that there is an independent report by NUI Galway establishing the need for a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Schools Building Projects (1 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister, but I already had that information from the answer to my previous question. I stated I was moving on from it. There are five national schools under the Educate Together banner in Galway and the children concerned have no secondary school to go to. As I understand it, only one school has experienced a decrease in numbers. All of the others have a waiting list. In...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Schools Building Projects (1 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Again, we are into the issue of patronage. According to the Department, there are 12 post-primary schools and 35 national schools, although I admit other documents state there are 36 national schools and 11 post-primary schools. There are waiting lists for almost all secondary schools in Galway. The statistics the Minister is using have been challenged by Educate Together which is more...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Schools Building Projects (1 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: There is a waiting list.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Baineann mo cheist le cúrsaí mheabharshláinte agus an polasaí agus fís A Vision for Change, 2006 go dtí 2016. Mar a léiríonn an tréimhse ama, tháinig sé chun deiridh breis is bliain ó shin. Go mion minic sa Dáil ó shin, tá sé geallta agus deimhnithe go bhfuil athbhreithniú ar siúl. An freagra...