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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Is there a reduction in the amount of money the Department is spending on that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I understand all of that. We have all had to read the reports over and over. Every year when Departments have come before the committee, we have asked for this to be done proactively. My question is where the Department is on that and the 35 actions. I understand that one of the actions is to bring back a Teagasc report that was not acted on. Is that right?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I understand. We need to go forward, working together. I am not about divide and conquer, even with carbon tax. Climate change is the biggest risk for us. Over the past two and a half years on this committee, I have not had the sense that Departments are taking it seriously. It is not just the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. I do not have that sense. It does not appear...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Connolly: We will certainly be monitoring it for as long as we are on it in terms of money because there are huge implications for money. I thank Mr. Gleeson for the detail on the fisheries harbour. There was a special report on that by the Comptroller and Auditor General in 2014 and it contained seven recommendations. There was a general reference in Mr. Gleeson's opening statement that some have...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I am never happy with the word "substantial".

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Substantial planning compliance does not exist but people keep using that phrase. Have the seven recommendations been implemented?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Of the ones that were done quickly, how many have been done and completed of the seven?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I ask for an update.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Which of the seven have been implemented and which have not and why?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Connolly: To go back to property, finally, I was asking about the proceeds of land sales. There was one particular matter on page 31, namely extra receipts payable to the Exchequer. It referred to proceeds of a land sale of €642,000, which was a sizeable sum that I overlooked. What was the valuation process? What was the land and what was the process of sale?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Connolly: What happened the other half?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Was that an open sale?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I see one last thing.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Under surrender of Vote, "uncashed cheques" caught my attention, which gave the Department €72,000. Are some people not bothering to cash cheques?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Data (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 151. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite hours provided for adults with an intellectual disability in Galway city and county in each of the years 2008 to 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25960/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Data (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 152. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite hours provided for children with an intellectual disability in Galway city and county in each of the years 2008 to 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25961/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Data (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 153. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite hours provided for adolescents with an intellectual disability in Galway city and county in each of the years 2008 to 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25962/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Data (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 154. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for residential care for adults with an intellectual disability in Galway city and county in each of the years 2008 to 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25963/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Data (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 155. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults with intellectual disabilities in residential care in Galway city and county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25964/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 189. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the chair of the collaborative forum of former residents of mother and baby homes and related institutions will be replaced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25989/19]