Results 16,741-16,760 of 32,969 for speaker:Catherine Connolly
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: On the backlog in regard Irish translation of the Acts and the finding of the court and the statement that it may be in breach of our Constitution, I would like to come back to that matter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: He wrote in early September.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I read that letter and took time to read everything that is related. Foolishly or otherwise, I read all of the case law on it. There is a fundamental misunderstanding about what we are being asked to do in the committee. The request is for the Committee of Public Accounts to ask or direct the Comptroller and Auditor General to confirm in writing four things which he found in the accounts....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Have they been submitted?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Were those involved tardy in submitting their accounts?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I would like to mention the work programme for Caranua. I mentioned it last week but I do not see it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Has it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I apologise.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Well done.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I do not wish to take up our guests’ time but we might return to the subject later in order that we can determine what we will ask the Department, given that there are other relevant issues.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Cuirim fáilte roimh na finnéithe. Don dara uair laistigh de trí bliana tá cothromaíocht inscne i gceist, rud atá iontach. For the second time, we have gender equality at one of the tables, though not at the top table. Often, reading documents for this committee just marks the beginning of a debate and I always leave such meetings wishing we had had more time...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: What choices does it have?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: We will then see what the Government or the Department does. It is fair to say the commission did not rush into this investigation, which has cost a lot of money. The commission is to get back to us on the question of the money and it is vital that it itemises the costs as best it can. In the annual reports to the Department every year, certain aspects were flagged.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Function creep was flagged, which means moving out into other areas. What else was flagged?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That is the whole point.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: The report sets out the background and this goes back to the 1990s. We had legislation in 2005 and there was a Government decision in 2013, which had implications. The annual reports repeatedly pointed out concerns, though Ms Dixon's predecessor accepted that there might be some justification for a requirement for a card, or something similar, for social welfare purposes. The commission...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: The Irish Council for Civil Liberties, which still has serious concerns, and other organisations, as well as some very good journalists, alerted the Dáil as to the implications. In 2017, the commission acted. It asked for the report to be published and Ms Dixon has clarified that there was nothing the commission could do about the Government failing to publish the report under existing...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: When the commission produces its report and wants it published, it is up to the Government.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: We asked questions in the Dáil last night and we were told there was a business case. Is the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform aware that there is a business case? If so, where is it and when was it produced?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Mr. Gleeson is not alone in not being familiar with it. Nobody is familiar with it and nobody seems to have seen it, although the Minister told us last night that there was a business case.