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Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: Sorry, this is difficult when Mr. McDonagh keeps interrupting.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: Please, Mr. Daly. If Mr. McDonagh would like to answer the questions, I would be delighted to pose them to him. However, he keeps interrupting by going to Mr. Daly and pointing things out to him.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: I accept that is Mr. Daly's reading of it. I am saying one could be forgiven for taking a different interpretation but Mr. Daly is not agreeing with that. That is okay. That is where it rests.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: I asked about it.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: I asked if Mr. Hanna had meetings and the witnesses wanted to clarify when or what. I asked if Mr. Hanna had meetings with Cerberus, the other two or any of the bidders. The question was put of when or what and I specified during the active bid process, at which point Mr. McDonagh came in.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: I am just clarifying the lead-in.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: An ornithologist.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Library Services Provision (23 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: 90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the nature and results of the consultation that took place with public library staff regarding the My Open Library project in advance of the pilot scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36471/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Library Services Provision (23 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: 91. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the risk assessment that has taken place and the details of that assessment with regard to the My Open Library project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36472/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Library Services Provision (23 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: 93. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if a condition of approval for capital funding for public libraries is that the library must agree to be an open library; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36474/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Library Services (23 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: 92. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the plans his Department has to reinstate the library council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36473/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Library Services Staff (23 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: 94. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if Irish is no longer a requirement for the appointment of a person to the position of county librarian; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36475/16]

Leaders' Questions (22 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: I despair, but I do not have the luxury of giving in to it because I have a voice in this Chamber. The Taoiseach is presiding over the deaths of people. I do not know whether he heard a single word that I said. Galway has been operating on code black, which is the highest emergency code, for months. A full capacity protocol is in operation due to overcrowding. The accident and emergency...

Leaders' Questions (22 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: I am sorry, a Cheann Comhairle, but this is my last point. The review covered four cases in particular and, separately, 30 other cases. Of the four, two caused great concern. In each, the course of action taken by the surgeon led to the need for further surgery, caused untold suffering and hastened the demise of the patient. There are many other cases in the hospital, which has only one...

Leaders' Questions (22 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: The Taoiseach did not visit it. He said that he did not have the time. He had time to go to the private hospital.

Leaders' Questions (22 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: You are an absolute disgrace.

Leaders' Questions (22 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: The clinical director of the hospital-----

Leaders' Questions (22 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: Last week in an interview with "Morning Ireland", Dr. Fergal Hickey pointed out that 300 to 350 people die every single year as a result of having been placed on hospital trolleys. He referred to the excessive mortality rate because of the warehousing of people on trolleys. He said the system was sending out a message that the abnormal has become normal. He said the system has been run...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (22 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: Bhí mé díreach chun a rá gur beannaithe é an Cathaoirleach i measc na mban, ach tá Deputy Cullinane anseo anois, so tá mé mícheart.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (22 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: I thank Mr. Long for coming before the committee. I will just ask a few questions. I will try to make a few statements and ask questions because we really just want to elicit information. I know Mr. Long will be co-operative. I have asked every single witness whether he or she has read the Comptroller and Auditor General's report.