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- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Catherine Connolly: It was not on the agenda. Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Catherine Connolly: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Catherine Connolly: From my point of view-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Catherine Connolly: I will leave that one for the moment. I will move on to the forestry grants. There is a reference to "an external party" on page 149 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report. Chapter 10.20 states:The Government has indicated that it intends to review the grant application process. In July 2019, it commissioned an external party to analyse the process undertaken by the Department in...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Catherine Connolly: It is under way. It will be completed by the end of the year.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Catherine Connolly: Are the terms of reference for that review broad? Do they cover climate change and the targets we are failing to meet?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Catherine Connolly: Again, I am going to run out of time. I would like a written note on the review setting out the full list of stakeholders. What was said in the interim report? The terms of reference are extremely important. According to the mid-term review of the forestry programme, they are extremely limited. If the Department is facilitating an external review that is limited, it is not aligned with...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Catherine Connolly: I am not sure I have enough time.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Catherine Connolly: I have two minutes. I would like to get the answer in written form.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Catherine Connolly: Unless he lets me back-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Catherine Connolly: If the Chair lets me back-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Catherine Connolly: I will move on to the review. Other speakers have said the targets were not met. In 2018, in particular, we were considerably below target. In other years improvements were made, but in 2018, the very year in which we were all coming under pressure on climate change, it was down. I would have thought a mid-term review in February 2018 would have looked at climate change and many other...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Catherine Connolly: It is page 147 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report, the chapter on measures included in the forestry programme for the period 2014 to 2020. Figure 10.1 includes 11 measures.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Catherine Connolly: My difficulty with that is that there are 11 measures. It is demand-led, but there has to be leadership. We need more afforestation It cannot just be demand-led; it has to be combined. My colleague mentioned public lands, something I do not even have the time to go into. There are many issues involved. However, it goes back to my original question. If the captain is to turn the ship...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Catherine Connolly: What time will that be?
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Reviews (24 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: 11. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 15 of 11 July 2019, when he plans to publish the findings of the review of the charitable status of Pobal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43831/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund Data (24 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: 19. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of applications by county received under the second call for category one applications to the rural regeneration and development fund; when a decision will be made in respect of the applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43828/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Local and Community Development Programme (24 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: 20. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the person or body responsible for overseeing and ensuring the delivery of the recommendations of the review of local community development committees; the steps taken to date following the publication of the report in July 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43830/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Social Enterprise Sector (24 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: 41. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the membership of the implementation group overseeing the delivery of the national social enterprise policy; the number of times the group has met; the terms of reference of the group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43827/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund Data (24 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: 46. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of each project allocated funds under the rural regeneration and development fund; if he is satisfied that each financial allocation will be drawn down by year end 2019; if not, the status of the funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43829/19]