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- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016) Catherine Connolly: That is right. What is the time lapse between funds being committed and being drawn down?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016) Catherine Connolly: But that is as much as the NTMA can say.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016) Catherine Connolly: As for the State Claims Agency, I think Mr. Breen stated there were 50 periodic payments. Is that right?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016) Catherine Connolly: And out of that, 30 have reverted back.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016) Catherine Connolly: I beg your pardon. They have reverted back to full payments-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016) Catherine Connolly: -----because of the absence of legislation.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016) Catherine Connolly: I should also congratulate the State Claims Agency, as it got a clean audit on everything from the Comptroller and Auditor General. Obviously, our questions do not pertain to the auditing of accounts; they pertain to the agency's role and function and queries on that. I will turn to the single recommendation from the Comptroller and Auditor General regarding the agency. It pertained to the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016) Catherine Connolly: I may allow the Comptroller and Auditor General to come in later to comment on that and whether he is satisfied that his recommendation is being taken on board. As for the risk assessment, my experience in a different life was that the risk was not managed well by the health executive and by the hospitals and that risks could have been avoided. I believe the agency is taking a proactive...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016) Catherine Connolly: They represent an extraordinarily high percentage of the overall claims. It seems that often what was necessary, in addition to compensation, was an early acknowledgement. I have two questions in that regard. What risk assessment improvements have been made? Would Mr. Breen also comment on the necessity of early apology?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016) Catherine Connolly: Certainly. How is that policy, where the apology is coming earlier and there is open discussion, being monitored?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016) Catherine Connolly: Will those two reports - that of the maternity hospitals and the one Mr. Breen just mentioned - be available publicly?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016) Catherine Connolly: Finally, on this particular area, there was a saving of 42% in legal costs after the agency went back and examined the issue. That also is to be welcomed. How did the agency manage that? A 42% saving is significant. Were they over-compensating in their estimates of costs or what?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016) Catherine Connolly: I thank Mr. Breen. Moving on to another area in terms of investment, Mr. O'Kelly stated the NTMA's role is in managing the debt and all of that, but it has another role in investing money throughout the world. In fact, I was staggered - I do not come from a financial background - at the amount of investment. I looked at the risk assessment, which is a major issue for the NTMA. Has...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016) Catherine Connolly: I could not be happy with that answer. Climate change is the biggest risk we face. I have asked Mr. O’Kelly in regard to the very well-produced, glossy report where climate change fits in and where it is identified as a risk. Mr. O’Kelly tells me there is a transition. Do I understand that the NTMA is to move out of all the current investment arrangements? There are 55...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016) Catherine Connolly: I have not been given a date on when the transition will be completed. Mr. O'Kelly is not answering my question on the serious economic risk posed by climate change, not to mention its impact at the human or any other level. Why is this not listed in the document as one of the major risk factors associated with the NTMA’s investments?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016) Catherine Connolly: Clearly, the process today has highlighted a lapse and a gap. This is extremely important. Climate change does not feature in the document. I appreciate the delegates' openness in answering my question.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016) Catherine Connolly: Reassuring me there is a transition phase is hiding behind words. I refer to the impact of the delegates' or their predecessors' decisions to invest in all these companies and to their failure to include a reference to the risk posed by climate change.
- Topical Issue Debate: NAMA Property Sales (20 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: Deputy, there is no provision to come back in. The point has been well made by you.
- Topical Issue Debate: Fish Farming (20 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: No, there is no provision to come in at this point. I am sorry.
- Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects Status (20 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: That is it. I am going on to the next issue.