Results 101-120 of 592 for speaker:Cathy Bennett
- Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025) Cathy Bennett: My party colleague Deputy Farrell has introduced a Bill in the Dáil and is currently trying to progress. It relates to procurement and procedures that should be in place for scoring a performance of a contractor. If it was delivered on time, projects would be delivered on cost but the Minister has said it will take at least two years for that to happen. Does Mr. Moloney believe it...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025) Cathy Bennett: I will move on then. Regarding Vote 12, in recent weeks it has come to light that Ministers and senior civil servants have been overpaid a significant amount. I understand the Department said it did not know but it was reported in the papers that this included two Ministers, 39 former Ministers and 30 senior civil servants. That is a total of 71 individuals. Is there an overlap between...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025) Cathy Bennett: Do we not have parliamentary privilege here for us to discuss numbers?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025) Cathy Bennett: How confident is Mr. Moloney that the total amount owed to the Exchequer will be recouped?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025) Cathy Bennett: Even with the history of everything else that has happened within Departments, he is fully confident.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025) Cathy Bennett: Those are all my questions for now. I thank Mr. Moloney.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025) Cathy Bennett: I am coming back in with one issue regarding projects that require business plans to be submitted. Are those business plans submitted to the witnesses’ Department in order to get funding? Does a business plan have to be sanctioned in advance in order for funding to be sanctioned?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025) Cathy Bennett: What is the value?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025) Cathy Bennett: I thought that is what happened as well. During the week, I mentioned Monaghan hospital’s need for emergency services to the Taoiseach. He told me that you cannot just go and do that, that there is a route to doing that, which involves putting a business case or whatever else forward. It worried me and I thought of other major projects that are happening. The Minister of State,...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025) Cathy Bennett: Is it the Taoiseach or the Minister of State, Deputy Harkin? Who is saying the right thing there? Is the Taoiseach saying the wrong thing that something could not be built without a business case?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025) Cathy Bennett: It is to ensure that all areas and counties are treated equally, and that there are business plans put in place for everybody.
- Post-European Council: Statements (9 Jul 2025)
Cathy Bennett: The Taoiseach correctly described the failure of the European Union to come to a unified position on Gaza as a huge strain on the bloc. He also said that if it fails to do so, Europe will have no credibility. European Union Commissioner, President Ursula von der Leyen, today lacks any credibility on human rights or international humanitarian law. It was Ursula von der Leyen who, at the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)
Cathy Bennett: I thank all the witnesses for coming in and for presenting their opinions to us. I congratulate Ms Ní Ghrálaigh on her appointment as an adjunct professor at the National University of Galway's Irish Centre for Human Rights. At a time when the very concepts of human rights and international law are under sustained attacks, I know all members will appreciate all the more the value...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)
Cathy Bennett: Will Ms Ní Ghrálaigh give an example of any other situation where the Irish Government has introduced legislation that has been acknowledged to be only partly in line with its international obligations? Have there been any consequences where it has taken action?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)
Cathy Bennett: Would there be any potential consequences for Ireland for breaching what has come out of the ICJ and the UN General Assembly resolution under our obligations under international humanitarian law? Are we in breach there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)
Cathy Bennett: I return to Europe, which is breaching at the moment. Are there no consequences for Europe and the Commissioner at the moment? Laws are being breached there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)
Cathy Bennett: I thank the witnesses again.
- Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)
Cathy Bennett: I welcome the students here tonight. We in Sinn Féin appreciate their efforts to go to college and better themselves. In a matter of weeks, students will be returning to their studies or setting off to college for the first time. What should be a time of excitement for so many will turn into a very stressful situation as they face the challenge of funding for so-called free...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (3 Jul 2025)
Cathy Bennett: 16. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the projected annual cost for Ireland of participation in the EU Pact on Asylum and Migration for each of the next five years, broken down by current and capital expenditure, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36668/25]