Results 32,961-32,980 of 33,139 for speaker:Catherine Connolly
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 92 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Strategic Planning for Flood Risk Management (14 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: Yes, but the EU directive's deadline for producing the maps was missed. Why was that? The three deadlines were March 2012, 2014 and 2016.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 92 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Strategic Planning for Flood Risk Management (14 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: This is July and the OPW hopes to have everything with the national maps done by the end of this year.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 92 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Strategic Planning for Flood Risk Management (14 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: Of the plans?
- 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 is producing plans. How many plans are in 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: Is Ms McGrath telling the committee that all of them will be ready by the end of this year?
- 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 understand that, and consultation is vital. I would be the first to give out if the OPW did not have a consultation process. Is Ms McGrath telling the committee that the process will be finished by the end of this year?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 92 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Strategic Planning for Flood Risk Management (14 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: That is the next step, but this part of the OPW's work will be finished by the end of-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 92 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Strategic Planning for Flood Risk Management (14 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: But there could be a further delay depending on-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 92 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Strategic Planning for Flood Risk Management (14 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: That is okay. I am only asking the question. There have been delays for various reasons, and I am trying to establish whether other delays could arise from the public consultation process.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 92 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Strategic Planning for Flood Risk Management (14 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: This Government policy dates from 2004 but we could be into 2017.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 92 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Strategic Planning for Flood Risk Management (14 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: My time is up, but my final question relates to the EU. The OPW reported to the Commission at various stages. What was the Commission's response? What is our exposure to penalties for non-compliance with the directive? I am hot under the collar about public consultation. In Galway, it was conducted in various hotels. Why was that not done in public buildings, for example, the town hall...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 92 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Strategic Planning for Flood Risk Management (14 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: Have they written back to you?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 92 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Strategic Planning for Flood Risk Management (14 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: To be parochial, can I take it that on every occasion the first port of call by the OPW in relation to the holding of a consultation would have been with the relevant city or town council?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 92 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Strategic Planning for Flood Risk Management (14 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: No, it is the policy I am interested in.
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Legislative Measures (14 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: 98. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide a list of statutory undertakers under the Water Services Acts 2007 and 2013, the Planning and Development Act 2000, the Local Government Act 2001 and any statutory instruments subsequent to the stated enactments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21743/16]
- Citizens' Assembly: Motion (13 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: The amendment we shall move, the fifth, proposes changes but I actually do not support the establishment of the assembly. However, if it is to go ahead, I ask that the amendment be taken on board. The Government has got itself into an absolute mess. The Constitution, when it was amended in 1983, led to the more serious problems that successive Dáileanna have refused to consider. It...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: UK Referendum on EU Membership (13 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: 61. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the contingency plans that have been put in place to protect the Irish fishing sector in view of the UK decision to leave the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21011/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (13 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: 191. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied) including when the person will receive an appointment. [21465/16]
- Regulation of Charities: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: Comhghairdeas, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, agus guím gach rath ort le do ról nua.
- Regulation of Charities: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: I welcome the opportunity to contribute on this subject and I thank the Social Democrats for raising it. While I support the good work of volunteers on the ground, the Dáil cannot reassure people that the charity sector is regulated. It is an impossibility. The Charities Act 2009 was introduced following the Law Reform Commission, LRC, identifying a gap in charities' regulation....