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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: 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?
- 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...