Results 16,901-16,920 of 32,969 for speaker:Catherine Connolly
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Where is the Chairman getting these figures?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: This is a policy matter for the Government and the health committee. Like the Chairman, we all have a particular interest in it because it is not working on the ground. I would love the health committee and our committee to look at home help. It has become more and more privatised. I am not sure where we are getting value for money in this regard because we do not know. It just went down...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: No. Well, based on budget, but justified by what is called an international standardised way of assessing somebody for home help, which consists of two hours filling out a form on a computer. Magically, 99% qualify for only ten hours' home help, regardless of whether one has Parkinson's, another progressive disease or senile dementia at an early stage - say, in one's 60s. I could not sit...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: We are looking for the numbers of hours and the costs involved.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I mentioned Caranua, which I understood was to appear before us when the accounts were complete.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Where are we with the accounts?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I am anxious that we follow up on the matter. We agreed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I would not be consistent if I did not comment on the absence of gender representation. It was overwhelming yesterday on the justice committee and it is overwhelming again today. It is no reflection on the witnesses but it is important to highlight it because it seems we are going backwards. Can I clarify something? I thank the witnesses for the information and I think they got clear...
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: They are called board members, not directors.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I am not being pedantic. It is coming from the accounts. I am looking at "Bord na gCon board and executive biographies". We talk about board members and directors. That is what is leading to my confusion. What have we got?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: It is a semi-State body.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: On that semi-State body, we have a maximum of seven board members and at the moment we have six. Mr. Dollard probably explained in my absence why one person is not there.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Who are they?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Who is the welfare person?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That was a recent appointment, was it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Did I see when I was reading this that Bord na gCon appointed a new veterinary expert in 2017, or am I confused?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Very good. Why is there one vacant?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: How long is the vacancy there?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: When is it expected to fill it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Whose hands is it in?