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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: Now what are you going to do about it?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: Good. When?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: Before the summer?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: I am not throwing brickbats.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: I am returning to the issue of Palestine and the genocide that is going on there. This morning, we listened to RTÉ's report of what the Palestinian ambassador to the UN said. He spoke of how flames and hunger were devouring Palestinian children. We also listened to an eyewitness account of a doctor on the ground. I will provide a few figures, but how have we reached this point? How...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ethics in Public Office (29 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: I have to agree with the previous speaker on this. I looked back to April. This is not a priority. In its 2009 annual report, SIPO "recommends that the Department of Finance should draft new legislation to be based on best practice for dealing with conflicts of interests and ... consolidate". Fast forward to the 2021 annual report, SIPO states "For a number of years, the Commission has...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ethics in Public Office (29 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: I will stick with what SIPO tells us. I will go back to 2019 and to the submission to public consultation on the regulatory impact analysis. It states that SIPO's "mandate includes oversight of the electoral Act". It then goes on to outline some of the challenges for SIPO in this role and the lack of independence of SIPO in terms of budgets, staffing and reporting to the Oireachtas. It...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ethics in Public Office (29 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: They were outlined by SIPO in 2019.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ethics in Public Office (29 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: 136. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 99 of 13 February 2025, for an update on the plans to review and strengthen the ethics in public office legislation, following the completion of the review of the statutory framework in December 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27769/25]
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) Catherine Connolly: The witnesses from the three organisation before us are all very welcome. ICT has been asked so many questions. They are saying there were no resources at the time, there was nobody in place at the time, and there was no business case at the time. I will not go back over it. I will move on to the art gallery. It is a wonderful facility. I have been down there many times. It is a joy to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) Catherine Connolly: What did the business case identify?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) Catherine Connolly: What equipment?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) Catherine Connolly: There was a business case to say we need this X-ray equipment. I understand that X-ray equipment is needed. However, did it identify what was necessary with that equipment? Did it identify that a room was necessary with it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) Catherine Connolly: A machine was purchased and it is stored part in one place and part in the gallery. It was purchased for a purpose to carry out X-rays of pieces of art the gallery has. Was what was necessary not identified completely at that point?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) Catherine Connolly: Honestly, I understand; we all make mistakes. The gallery does a very good job. It is about learning. We are here every week and I am back on the committee, fortunately or unfortunately, in regard to processes. We recently had the national children's hospital before us. We will be coming to the Department. I am not here to go at the witnesses. I do not need any more apologies. We all...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) Catherine Connolly: Where is the gallery going to make it operational?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) Catherine Connolly: It was obvious from the beginning, was it not, that the lead-lined room was required if an X-ray machine was being bought? Was it not identified then that a lead-lined room was necessary?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) Catherine Connolly: We know now that €225,000 is going to be spent on a lead-lined cabinet. Is that right?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) Catherine Connolly: Was that identified at the time? I am confused. A room was identified. The room was not suitable. However, all of that would have been obvious at the time, would it not? An X-ray machine cannot simply be put in.