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Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Somebody who will ensure it works. On the tender to finish up the bits, was OpenSky the company?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Is it possible that any other company could come in on that tender and take up where it left off?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Is there a reason for going out to tender?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: They would be capable of picking it up, if the board wants to change, or if the original people do not win the tender.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I am just making sure because we have had cases before. For example, with the children's hospital, there were two phases but who else was going to come in and build on somebody else's foundations?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: It would own-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Was the €2.9 million estimate for 2014 the amount of money the board had to spend? How could something end up being €5 million when it was €2.9 million? Inflation is understandable but if I was the company who had got that tender I would be delighted I had received a tender for €2.9 million and could potentially get €5 million. I would think this is a...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Essentially, what Mr. Walsh is saying is that what was planned for in 2014 has evolved. The board has taken on more roles and the system has to be bigger to cope with the board's extended roles.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: There is no big scandal involved with the €5 million. I would like to make a point about holding oral hearings in local authority buildings instead of hotels. A point was made earlier about the interface there. Consider a private citizen who may be in conflict with the local authority. If I was being brought into a local authority office, I would feel that everyone there might be...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: We will get over that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: That is the word I was trying to think of, but I could not. There is an expectation of neutrality by the citizen that he or she is not landed into a State office.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Will the witnesses talk us through the CPOs and the vacant properties? I did not really understand it until I read a bit about it. I understand that there has been some success in Louth and in Waterford. Will the witnesses talk me through how it happens? When somebody tells the Department there is a boarded-up house in the middle of wherever and nobody has been in it for a long time, what...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Let us say that someone leaves the country in a hurry, for legitimate reasons, and the building is boarded up, and then they find out the building has been compulsorily purchased. Can that person appeal to An Bord Pleanála and say he or she wants it, and can the process be halted?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: The purpose is to bring properties into use and not to seize properties.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: The problem is that we have not dealt with the women thing.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Not yet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I thank all of the delegates for coming. I will start with a number of questions about the hospital consultant issue, even though many others have also contributed on it. My concern is that ten years on from the recession, we are not making inroads in recruitment. Sláintecare, on which many members of the committee worked a number of years ago, is a roadmap for a period of ten...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: We are not really doing that as charity. They are keeping our universities afloat.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: There is a significant morale issue. It is difficult for a doctor working in a busy hospital in Dublin to hear that a locum doctor in Bantry who can put on his coat at the end of his shift and walk out the door is being paid €415,000. A permanent consultant cannot walk out the door, go home and cook dinner for his or her children, but the guy in Cork who can walk out is getting one...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I am sure the Minister and the Department are aware of the increasing evidence on the harmful effects of vaping, which has emerged in recent years and is becoming very popular. All present are aware of the expansion of the industry onto high streets and, clearly, how profitable it must be if rates and so on can be paid on such a number of outlets for these products. If the products are to...