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- Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Excuse me, Chairman. The thread of governance runs through all the projects, and if the governance of one project leads us to have serious questions, it has implications for all the projects.
- Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Let us be a little realistic in this regard. We are here to reassure ourselves about the value for money on all projects. If one stands out as questionable on governance issues, we are looking for reassurance not just in words, but in actual written form as to how that will not happen with other projects. That is the first point. The second is that a comment was made about a mob. That...
- Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I have two quick questions and a comment. The Galway city ring road project is with An Bord Pleanála and the Secretary General does not need to comment on it. The document states the project is at "detailed appraisal stage". What does that mean? Is that appraisal being done by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform? What role, if any, does the National Development Finance...
- Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: The appraisal.
- Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Who is doing that? It is at appraisal stage.
- Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: The other one was the national-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: The NDFA was involved. I will come back to the Secretary General.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: It was highlighted in-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: It came up in the context of the draft periodic report. I asked for an update and that is the update. I agree with what Deputy MacSharry is saying in the sense that that is what it is telling us. That is where we are and what it is telling us.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Is that for one year?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Of the ones under-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: What is the figure again?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: It is useful for questions not being answered and the current context of this committee and others. That is a price of not answering questions.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications Data (7 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: 111. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons waiting more than six months for a decision on an application for international protection from an international protection officer as defined by section 30 of the International Protection Act 2015; the number of months each of these persons have been waiting for such a decision; and if he will make a...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications Data (7 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: 112. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average waiting time for a decision on applications for international protection from an international protection officer as defined by section 30 of the International Protection Act 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11447/19]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I support that. It is difficult to tease out where we are going with it. The processes were working in a sense. Somebody was alerting somebody higher up that there were questions. That is my understanding.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Again, we cannot see those processes. The memorandum is part of a process. Somebody is concerned and is theoretically doing the right thing. The person notices something is wrong and wants it checked out. The person alerts somebody with higher authority so everything was being done correctly, theoretically.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Before we proceed, may I have a copy of the information provided by Mr. John McCarthy? One or two members do not have copies.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: We could then read them before the meeting starts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: It is not actually the hard copies that caused the difficulty.