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Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: This is on paragraph 6.9.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I see that. My question is how long the investigation has been ongoing. What is the up-to-date position? What has been learned from it?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: If Mr. O'Driscoll does not know, perhaps he could come back to us with the relevant facts: how long the investigation has been ongoing, the completion date and what has been learned from it?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Absolutely.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: That is fine. I have no difficulty with Mr. O'Driscoll coming back to me. I am just seeking the facts: how long the investigation has been ongoing, when it will be completed, what the Department has learned from it and what has happened? My final point concerns Brexit, which Deputy Aylward started off with. Either now or whenever the Chair allows him in, perhaps Mr. O'Driscoll might...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I was going to ask that question. I thought the site was to become a park and a public facility.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Is the plan just for some part of the island, and the remainder will be public?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: On page 24 of the report there is an item called "conscience money". Can the witness explain what this is?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Is it returned anonymously?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: My final question is the big question and maybe it cannot be answered at this point. Sitting here at each meeting, having listened to officials and having heard the questions that were raised about Bord na gCon today it occurs to me that we are giving out money even where there are governance issues with parent bodies which distribute the funds. For example, we have had the HSE before the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I will put that into our language; it would save us sitting here and putting the witnesses under pressure by asking questions, which we are doing repeatedly, with matters that should have already been taken in hand. We should not have to be here asking how many times has the Department met with Bord na gCon, the Marine Institute or Horse Racing Ireland when we are giving out substantial...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I am not going back to that as I will leave that issue to the Deputies who asked about it. The more general issue is in holding to account the bodies to which the Department gives money, so that the Department is satisfied. In other words, would the Department be able to inform the committee today that the annual accounts are in from the Marine Institute, Horse Racing Ireland and so on?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Are the accounts coming in up to date and is the Department satisfied with its governance overview, particularly as result of everything that has happened with regard to Console and all the other issues?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (16 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 32. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number and specifically which of the 173 recommendations of the McMahon report that have been fully, partially and yet to be implemented respectively, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7612/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Resettlement Programme (16 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 40. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of reguees under the Irish refugee protection programme who have arrived to date in view of Ireland's commitment in September 2015 to take 4,000 persons under the programme over a two year period; the specific arrangements in place to ensure this commitment is met; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7611/17]

Other Questions: Military Medals (15 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Two of the survivors died recently. Sergeant Bill Ready died in 2016 and Sergeant Walter Hegarty died in Galway only a few weeks ago. I appeal to the Minister of State to review his decision. We have heard many debates in this Dáil recently on courageous whistleblowers standing up and on what was done to them. This is the most appalling story. It is about the absolute demonisation...

Other Questions: Military Medals (15 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I ask the Government to show courage.

Other Questions: Military Medals (15 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 43. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the steps that have been or are being taken to implement the recommendation that medals be awarded to the officers and NCOs of the siege of Jadotville in view of the overwhelming support that this recommendation be acted upon (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7104/17]

Other Questions: Military Medals (15 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: The 56th anniversary of the battle of Jadotville occurs in September of this year. The Minister of State met a few weeks ago a group of concerned students from Galway community college on their campaign in this matter. The final step is to give medals to the officers and the NCOs or their surviving families. What progress, if any, has been made in this regard and when will those medals be...

Other Questions: Military Medals (15 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: The fact the Minister of State is satisfied that the unit citation and insignia are sufficient is disappointing. I welcome these positive steps but what is being asked for specifically, 56 years after the Battle of Jadotville, is that medals be awarded. For the Minister of State to refer to an Irish Medals Board decision in 1965, which is more than 50 years ago, is not helpful. Society has...