Results 32,921-32,940 of 33,139 for speaker:Catherine Connolly
- Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (Resumed) (14 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: I have been very generous in letting the Deputy in, given that he has already spoken on the topic. It is not appropriate.
- Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (Resumed) (14 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: The matter has been raised, and we can come back to it. I have no other speakers on my list.
- Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (Resumed) (14 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: I thought you needed a break.
- Message from Select Committee (14 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: The Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources has completed its consideration of the Energy Bill 2016 and has made amendments thereto.
- Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (Resumed) (14 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: We return to the report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness. I was about to say "hopelessness", which might not be too far off.
- Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (Resumed) (14 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: The next speakers are Deputies Bernard J. Durkan and Michael Harty, who are not in the Chamber. I call on the following speaker, Deputy Boyd Barrett.
- Other Questions: Inland Fisheries Regulation (14 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: 10. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to review pike management operations using gill nets and electrofishing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21012/16]
- Other Questions: Inland Fisheries Regulation (14 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: On a very specific issue, will the Minister of State clarify the position on the pike management operation? In particular, has the review started and, if so, when did it start and when will it be completed? Excuse the pun but that is the net issue.
- Other Questions: Inland Fisheries Regulation (14 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: I ask this question very carefully as somebody from Galway who realises the value of salmon and trout. At the same time, I know that there has been great unease among pike anglers about this matter. It is welcome that there is a review under way. I am not clear on what the Minister of State said about the actual consultation process and about how open and accessible it will be to all...
- Other Questions: Inland Fisheries Regulation (14 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: I agree that there is certainly a divergence of opinion, but it is time, as part of the review process, that all sides were heard. There is also value to pike anglers. They have given me extraordinary figures which indicate a reduction in the number of visitors from 43,000 to 7,200 in the last year. There are issues arising and the anglers are looking for a process in which they will be...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: The first part of my question has been answered and Mr. McCarthy expecting an improvement. The second part of the question relates to the non-effective expenditure of €108,000 in relation to the County Galway VEC premises. Was that an empty premises that rent was being paid on?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: That part remained vacant for that period of time and €108,000 was paid in rent but it was not being used.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: Is it still vacant?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: I appreciate that and I have experience of that in Galway, where the Health Services Executive was paying almost €1 million per year and it was cheaper to break the lease and pay a €1 million penalty. However, it certainly highlights the failure of these bodies to look at leases regularly and to see whether they can get more cost-effective and shorter leases. We must also look...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 92 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Strategic Planning for Flood Risk Management (14 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: I realise this work was being done against a background that was unprecedented. In the seven years from December 2006 to December 2015, there were nine major weather events that affected more than ten counties in the western, midlands and Shannon regions. The Comptroller and Auditor General referred already to Storm Desmond in this regard. Another of these events involved an exceptional...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 92 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Strategic Planning for Flood Risk Management (14 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: The OPW went ahead with four of the nine pilot projects identified.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 92 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Strategic Planning for Flood Risk Management (14 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: Some of them were, but what about the rest?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 92 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Strategic Planning for Flood Risk Management (14 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: There were four projects - two in Dublin, one in County Meath and one in County Cork.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 92 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Strategic Planning for Flood Risk Management (14 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: I ask Ms McGrath to let me put my question.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 92 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Strategic Planning for Flood Risk Management (14 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: I would like to return to what the Chairman said about what had been learned from the projects. The Comptroller and Auditor General has highlighted - perhaps not in red - for our attention that there was some learning from them. He accepts that the OPW made this point. However, there was no formal learning from them. We cannot see a document that shows what was learned when the OPW looked...