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- Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Díolúine ó Staidéar na Gaeilge: Plé (22 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: An teachtaireacht-----
- Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Díolúine ó Staidéar na Gaeilge: Plé (22 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Sin cuid den fhadhb, ach is cuid eile de ná nach bhfuil an Roinn Oideachais agus Scileanna ag cur in iúl chomh fiúntach is atá sé an dara teanga a bheith ag duine. Sin an teachtaireacht atá in easnamh. Tá an Roinn ag cur a mhalairt trasna, is é sin gur rud diúltach é an dara teanga, seachas rud-----
- Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Díolúine ó Staidéar na Gaeilge: Plé (22 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Tá freagracht ar an Rialtas agus ar an Roinn é sin a chur in iúl faoi pholasaithe éagsúla. Gabhaim buíochas leis na finnéithe. Níl aon cheist eile agam. Bhí sé cabhrach dúinne iad a bheith anseo. Léigh mé faoin ábhar seo ach tá sé níos éasca é a thuiscint nuair a thagann daoine isteach os...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I was going to ask for this to be postponed. I looked at it before but perhaps we could look at it in the next session.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I welcome that it was published on the day of the budget.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I support that but I do not think we know the question yet. I agree with the Comptroller and Auditor General that we need to tease it out. He may not have used those words but he said we should not go down the road of a definition yet. I agree totally. If we look at Caranua, for example, which is coming up later today, there is a jump of €43,000 for other consultancy. That is the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: This arose from a letter sent by the Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: We highlighted that and this is the result. Has that clarified things?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: We might go back to the original letter to see what it missed. Is the Department accepting that there was some lack of clarity?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That is fine. Confusion arose from the letter sent to us.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: We have now been confounded with detail.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I will have to go back and see what was the original misunderstanding. There might be an apology somewhere or a clarification.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I will look for that myself.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: When we read all this, we will know that we are really heavily indebted, no matter which measure we use.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I welcome the updates. However, it has taken this committee and reports from the Comptroller and Auditor General on the redress scheme to follow up on this. We have said it many times but it is important to say it again. It should have not taken that much effort. If an agreement was made, voluntarily or legally, it should have been followed up. On a general point, for example, Lenaboy...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: In that context, one of the points made by the Comptroller and Auditor General in his reports was the lack of co-operation from the religious orders. That is not acceptable.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I agree with Deputy Cullinane on this. This ends up becoming a value for money issue because if the systems in place are there in theory but do not work, they end up costing money. This is probably a matter for the justice committee as well. The points have been made. I recall the Commissioner's appearance before the committee. He came back and apologised or said he did not know-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: However, he also made the point that he did not have knowledge of the question beforehand, which was not a great reason.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: If one does not know, one waits, but he said he did not have foreknowledge of the matter. This is simple. Exit surveys should not be carried out if one is not going to learn from them. The whole point of an exit survey is to learn from it. A simple answer here would have been very helpful to us. We asked a very simple question, namely, whether bullying and harassment were recorded in the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I am interested in the Chairman's use of the word "achieved".