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- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Okay. That is that confusion cleared up. For the 2017 reports of the members and directors or executive, that has changed slightly, has it not?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Significant change for the better, with more expertise. Is that the significant change?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Okay. Comments were made about "shambolic". We do not usually use such words and I do not but I have to say that to date, that was the presentation to us. In over three years they were among the worst. They were here on two occasions. It was like Roman times, really, the way we had the room packed and they were laughing and joking and did not believe anything that was being said at a top...
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Mr. Peake is down as a director at some stage I think, is he? No, he is down as head of events and hospitality services. Everyone here today is "executive". On the last occasion we had members of the board as well.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I understand the difference but I just wanted to clarify. Are the minutes of those board meetings published?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That is okay. They are not published.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Somebody would have to seek them under freedom of information. Mr. Dollard then serves the board, is that right? He would be at every meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Lovely. Has it ever come up in the interests of openness and accountability that the board meetings would be published?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I hear what Mr. Dollard is telling me. I will think about that. On the RTÉ programme, I only watched it last night because I could not bear to watch it. It goes back to June, does it not?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Following that programme, what happened? Did the board meet? Was the RTÉ programme down on an agenda? Was it discussed? What was Mr. Dollard's own reaction to it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: What does that mean?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Has that item remained on the agenda of the board since? I refer to welfare.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: How frequently does the board meet?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: It has been on the agenda every month.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That is very good. Let me go back. As a result of the programme, there was a meeting within two days and a range of measures were taken. Was there already a fostering programme in place?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: The board put-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Okay. What else was done?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: The rehoming initiative has always been there but more money was put into it. Were there any new initiatives?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: They are new initiatives.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statement 2017 (19 Sep 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I will come back to the question of why we needed an RTÉ programme to lead to these initiatives. First I want to establish what they were. What are the care centres that are gone out to tender?