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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Let us be clear. I attended the meeting the last day, but the electronic copy had been sent to the entire committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Yes, but obviously it what was leaked.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I understand that, but the source of the newspaper report was the electronic copy which had been sent by somebody.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Perhaps we might include a provision whereby both sides - the sender and the recipient - would need to give permission before contents would be shared.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: What is the reference number for that correspondence?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: On that, there was something I raised and about which I was to come back to the Chairman. He left the issue open and I thank him for that. It relates to medical negligence and to the prior step where independent inquiries are carried out. I have gone back to check on this and I was to come back to the Chairman about it. I have asked a very straight question regarding Galway. Over a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I am left with my mouth open. I went back twice and in two different ways. I then went to the Minister to ask him whether he was happy with this situation. I will now refer that question and those two answers to the committee. Before we get to medical negligence, things inevitably happen because we are only human. One learns from that and one should set up an investigation, whether...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Yes. There are parliamentary questions.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: The HSE is saying the opposite, is it not? It is saying it sets up investigations, learns and implements recommendations.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: How can that be true if it does not even have a record of the number of investigations that have been carried out?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I welcome that. On a separate issue and just to keep track, we got a letter from a doctor with which we did not deal.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Yes. I just want to make sure we do not forget it. I do not mind when we deal with it, but we should deal with it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Alternatively we could deal with it today in private session. We have not dealt with it and it was a very interesting and informative letter. We should be seen to make a decision on it, one way or another.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Connolly: Fáilte romhaibh. I have an awful temptation to state that we have gender equality today and might get some solution to the housing problem. I say that tongue in cheek but given the seriousness of the problem, I should not, really. Can Mr. John McCarthy tell us how many people are homeless today? What is the exact figure? "Morning Ireland" had a figure this morning. If memory serves...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Connolly: Of those, how many are children?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Connolly: I put the same question in respect of Galway.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Connolly: That is okay. On 4 February, Galway had 50 families in private emergency accommodation. This figure is from the city council. I am placing my questions in context. There were 20 notices of termination in quarter 4 of 2018 and the cost of private emergency accommodation in 2018 was €2.455 million, which sum is projected to increase to €3.57 million. The supply of suitable...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Connolly: I hear Mr. John McCarthy's protestation. I will ask a number of questions on housing, but first I want to look at the accounts and at Vote 34. Can we look at governance issues and internal financial controls on page 5? I want to go quickly through this. There were internal financial control issues in relation to the management of accommodation and homelessness funding. Weaknesses were...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Connolly: I see the issues. They are listed out. Is there a procurement register in place which includes the expiry dates? Is a procedures manual in place? How much money was involved?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Connolly: Good.