Results 19,461-19,480 of 32,978 for speaker:Catherine Connolly
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: It a serious matter not to retender something. A decision was made - and I am not saying that there was anything wrong with that - but we now learn that a report was done. Did Eir have an input into the report on which that decision was based?
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Did Eir have any input into this report?
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Eir applied. BT explained to us earlier that, under state aid, it wanted to participate in the initial tender. Did Eir enter into the initial tender going back to-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: It was indicated, by the entity that was before us earlier, that it was excluded because there would have been conflict. The entity that got it did not have that conflict but, subsequently, did. Would Eir not have had the same conflict had it applied if the Department had retendered?
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I thank our guests very much. This has been helpful. They are here in a voluntary capacity and I appreciate that. It is good to get the views of all the delegations that have been before us. I have read the material and I will go back and read it again. Is Mr. Bolger stating that he agrees with the national development of broadband and wants to work with it-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: -----but that fibre to the home is wrong from Imagine's point of view? Is he stating that the latter is not necessary?
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That is-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I am only trying to understand what is here so that I can-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: And different solutions.
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: In a phased approach.
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That has been helpful. I will finish on this. In the third paragraph on the first page of the statement submitted by Imagine Communications Group, reference is made to 400,000 out of the 540,000 premises . Are these the same premises we were talking about at this morning's session with another group of witnesses? Are these the 540,000 premises-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: -----under the national broadband plan? Is that right?
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Eir informed the committee that it could deal with 150,000 of those but Imagine is indicating us it could cover 400,000 of them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: In what timeframe could it do so?
- Public Accounts Committee: Imagine Communications Group (14 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Okay.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Abuse Reports (13 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: 33. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 27 of 13 December 2018, when the report of the review panel which commenced on 16 May 2016 in respect of the care of three children in a foster home in County Galway will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6745/19]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Abuse Reports (13 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: My question is in the context of the utter failure of the State to protect three young children. The Central Criminal Court was told last year that they were sexually abused and raped on a weekly basis between the ages of six and ten while they were in foster care in Tuam, County Galway. The independent review panel took over to conduct an investigation. It is now 2019. The first...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Abuse Reports (13 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: The Minister's reply is totally unacceptable. The protection and vulnerability of the children were never in the minds of the HSE or Tusla. An independent review panel was set up. In April 2018, in response to Deputy McDonald, the Taoiseach said the publication of the report was almost complete. It was only completed in December. It is with Tusla, a body that Mr. Justice Charleton said...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Abuse Reports (13 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I welcome that the Minister is saying she would like the report to be published, if I heard her correctly.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Abuse Reports (13 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I welcome that but I cannot but be frustrated on behalf of the people who have suffered in a system that is now heaping abuse onto abuse. I only criticise Tusla because I am quoting from the HIQA and the Charleton reports. Clearly it does good work but in this situation the agency took over from the HSE, which itself is under scrutiny in respect of this. The independent review panel has...