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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Deployment (28 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 846. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 68 of 15 February 2017, the reason the deployments were so high in April and October 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9651/17]

Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: The debate on this Bill is extremely important. The digest that has been produced to accompany this legislation confirms that approximately 600,000 people in this country, or 13% of the population, have a disability. The exact figure depends on the definition of "disability" that is used. The figure is much higher if a broader definition is used. The digest continues:Of people aged 15 and...

Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: The removal of an important part of what we signed up to - maximum communication with people with disabilities - compounds the insult to people with disabilities. I remind the House that Article 33 of the UN convention enshrines the right of people with disabilities to participate in the decision-making process entirely separately from the organisations that represent them. Sections of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I certainly welcome that because the level of dependency that I have seen in public nursing homes in Galway and in the county, when we had one in Galway, was extraordinary. There is a facile debate, not even a debate but a facile public relations campaign, going on into private nursing homes to suggest they are much cheaper. Certainly I welcome that as the complexity of finance for public...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I will be coming from Galway.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Have we?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I do not think we should rush off to look at nursing homes. I do not think it is our role. A particular point has come up here in respect of high levels of dependency in public nursing homes. That is our starting point. We should make decisions on what we will do after that, rather than rushing into it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I beg the Chairman's pardon. I am not saying that we should not visit a public nursing home but that the issue that has come before us is the high dependency level and issues like that. I do not think we should rush off to visit a public nursing home and feel we have to balance it with private nursing homes. I do not think that is necessary at this point. I think it is necessary to gather...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: On that, could the Chairman confirm when we expect to fly - excuse the bad pun - with a report on Project Eagle?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: That is what I am conscious of. I will not go into it here but-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I did not either but I am just conscious that we should be given an official report. I am asking the Chairman to confirm in public when we might expect-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: The timeframe for the report to be published is in the next week or two.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I just wanted to clarify that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: The officials are very welcome and I welcome the Comptroller and Auditor General's report of a clean audit. It is nice to be able to look at a programme which ranges from the Ancient East trail to the Wild Atlantic Way to the wild west to swimming pools to active towns and so on. There is a huge range of topics here and it is very good that the officials are here to talk about that. I...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Go ahead, please.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: On those swimming pools, does the Department have a profile of their age, whether they will deteriorate if the funding does not go ahead and so on? Has it looked at that? I am thinking about obesity and active cities. There are excellent policies all over the place in all these documents and yet we have an underspend on swimming pools. What is the Department's proactive approach on that...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: The Department invited in three more and got two, so that is one proactive thing.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: What is the problem with tendering?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: The Department attributes the underspend to delays in tendering and matching funding.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I know it is local authorities. Is the Department aware of those issues? Does it sit down and talk to the local authorities to say the Department has this money, so let us use it?