Results 18,141-18,160 of 32,978 for speaker:Catherine Connolly
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: When I see money allocated under the heading communications, I am not looking at funds going to public relations companies. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: How much money is going to that company?
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Are any other companies receiving funds?
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That is now finished.
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: The Carr Communications contract is being renewed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I have serious concerns regarding using money for public relations companies but that is a decision for the EPA and Ms Burke has clarified it. I still think, however, that the work of the EPA should speak for itself.
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Those are two matters. The website update cost €60,000 or €70,000. I think that was the figure mentioned.
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: An bhfuil Gaeilge ansin? An bhfuil sé dátheangach? Is it bilingual?
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Website design.
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Is the website bilingual?
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Does the EPA have an objective, a cuspóir, to make it bilingual?
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: How do people who want to do their business in Irish do that in the absence of a bilingual website?
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I understand that and one has to be reasonable. The website, at the very least, should be bilingual, however.
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I see.
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: The EPA has been in contact with an Coimisinéir Teanga.
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That is fine. I will leave that. The last point I had was on remediation and I found the information I sought. There are 71 historical landfill remediation sites, just in category A, and that is outside of Silvermines, Avoca and all of the other former mining sites. It really is a picture of Ireland and what we have done. We are back to compliance and regulation. It costs us much more...
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: What role does the EPA have regarding these 71 sites?
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: With Galway, for example, is there a point at which the EPA says a site is finished and can now be used as a park? Does the EPA have a role in that regard?
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: There are 285 historical sites. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Of these, 71 are on a priority A list. I am not holding Ms Burke to numbers.