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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: At the end of this, we will have a report on housing. There have been figures bandied about and disputed, on which we got some clarification only in the last few weeks. It is primarily going to be a factual report so that we can also look at it from the point of view of value for money. In simple terms, that is what we are trying to achieve.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Garda Benevolent Fund.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: It is in that context. I beg the Chairman's pardon.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That is fine.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I do not know the details but I have read the letter and there is a bigger issue, which is raised by the memo. Somebody was concerned and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General analysed it in a limited way. The president said he would do the same tomorrow but that is where we come in. When risks are brought to someone's attention there is an extra burden on that person but he is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: There is an issue over the statement that this would happen again today all over again.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: The statement has been confirmed in the letter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Leaving aside what is in the memo, we are being told that if the situation arose again today it would be dealt with in the same way. That is a problem.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I would hope the HEA would come back on this as the oversight body.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I do not know where we stand in regard to the issue of accountability.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: It ran over-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Did we write to the relevant party?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I was hoping that we would get a response from the Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: It is doubly ironic that they were amalgamated to make them more efficient and better, but the opposite has happened. It is most unfair on the staff on the ground.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: They are telling us that it is unfair.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: We criticise them for other things.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: We were about to do it again in the case of Galway city and county.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: No, we were. We stopped it in the Dáil. It was planned to create a bigger entity without any preparation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: And the non-procurement issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: With regard to the doctor who wrote to us-----