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- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: I want to be clear. Approximately ten people on any given day could be released, but there is nowhere for them to go. Is that the case?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: Several hundred come from homeless backgrounds. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: My final question is on Thornton Hall. It was raised by my colleague and I had it marked. It is in the appropriation accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: It is listed as a strategic State asset. Will Mr. Waters clarify the nature of this strategic State asset? How many acres are covered?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: Is the access road completed?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: When was the working group set up?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: Since 2015, has an interim report on the 160 acre site been produced?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: What is the framework for examining it? How long has it been sitting there, so to speak?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: I am not from Dublin, but it is 160 acres. There is a major housing crisis and many other crises, yet we have a site of 160 acres. Is the site still valued at the historical value? The document before me suggests it continues to be valued at the historical value.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: Is the figure €29 million?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: I recoil against that. A site of 160 acres is sitting empty. It is no justification to say that major housing projects have not worked out. That is not an answer to a question about a site of 160 acres bought at €29 million. I have a reaction when I hear that. Major housing developments often got into trouble because of complete lack of input from local authorities, including...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: The Central Mental Hospital was to be accommodated there as well. Is that correct?
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (1 Feb 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I support what the Deputy said. Later on the Minister proposes a review after three years, but this is much too long. It will be more dangerous for sex workers on the ground. The Minister is conflating trafficking with sex workers. If the Government is seriously interested in stopping demand and stopping sex workers on the ground, it would have built an exit strategy into this Bill. I...
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (1 Feb 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It is introducing further punishment. It is introducing a fine for the purchaser of sex, but it is introducing a prison sentence for the sex worker. The Minister is actually introducing a fine-----
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (1 Feb 2017)
Catherine Connolly: To be clear, the Minister is introducing a fine as a way of penalty for the person who is purchasing the sex and in parts of this Bill she is introducing a prison sentence for the sex worker. I do not know if the Minister has read it, but that is what she is actually doing here in the guise of protecting the sex worker on the ground. This is a very good legislation that should be passed...
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (1 Feb 2017)
Catherine Connolly: The Bill is very positive and I support it. However, I think sections 24 and 25 have no place in it. This is a Bill to protect vulnerable children and people with disabilities. I have difficulty with the definition of "capacity". The simplest thing to do in order to get consent across the floor would be to delete these two sections. There is absolutely no need for them. I have taken the...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (31 Jan 2017)
Catherine Connolly: 97. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the measures her Department is taking to ensure that gardaí have the necessary resources to combat and deal with rural crime in view of the increased number of robberies taking place in the Connemara region; the steps that have been taken to deal with this issue; the plans in place in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (31 Jan 2017)
Catherine Connolly: 199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of tourism and hospitality skills training positions that were allocated to Galway West in 2015 and 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4157/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (31 Jan 2017)
Catherine Connolly: 200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding allocated to Galway West for tourism and hospitality skills training in 2015 and 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4158/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (31 Jan 2017)
Catherine Connolly: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the agency or Government body which has oversight and responsibility for hospitality and tourism skills development policy here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4159/17]