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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Prospecting Licences (1 Oct 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 454. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of a prospecting licence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39359/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Prospecting Licences (1 Oct 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 455. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to request that a company (details supplied) surrender a prospecting licence in view of its declaration that it no longer has an interest in a project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39360/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Commencement of Legislation (1 Oct 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 456. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the Minerals Development Act 2017 will be commenced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39361/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Meetings (1 Oct 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 457. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of times representatives of his Department have met mining companies in the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39362/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (1 Oct 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 562. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number and location of hostels or emergency hostel-style accommodation approved by Tusla for the placement of children; the number, age and length of stay of children currently in such accommodation in tabular form; the number, age and length of stay of children in such accommodation in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (1 Oct 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 636. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the review of AHBs not signed up to the voluntary regulation code for approved housing bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39774/19]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I agree with the Chairman. I have no problem with it. We wrote to the organisation seeking information and asked for the number of jobs supported. It gave us the figure by sector and it gave us the region. We also asked for company size. Was that information given?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Catherine Connolly: To be fair to it, it gave us the information we asked for. It is now up to us to decide what to do with it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Catherine Connolly: That is what I am getting to. I read the document and see that we asked for the number of jobs.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I am not defending the organisation. I believe this is very interesting. We do need to bring in the representatives and talk to them. I agree with the point the Chairman is making, which he is making very well, but if we asked for the number of jobs supported and it gave us the number of jobs supported-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Underneath are the sector, category and number of jobs.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I fully support the Chairman. We had Údarás na Gaeltachta yesterday. It is in áit na leathphingine. It is not at the races in regard to the funding received by comparison with IDA Ireland, Enterprise Ireland and all the other such organisations. I support the Chairman in teasing it out. I am just trying to clarify what we asked for.

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.