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- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (3 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: I disagree. The Garda is doing a good job through the protective units but I disagree with the Minister that things have changed in terms of societal attitudes. The Minister could do certain things and act very quickly. He could act regarding the domestic violence register he promised. He has given me no timeline for that. Women’s Aid has consistently stated the strongest...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (3 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: 2. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to the findings of a report (details supplied) that front-line services were contacted 32,144 times, being an increase of 12% on 2023, that 44% of women surveyed were not satisfied with their initial engagement with An Garda Síochána and that its response to more than 65,000 contacts received last year was...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (3 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: The Minister is very familiar with the latest Women Aid's report. What will he do, given the significant increase in contacts with Women's Aid and that 44% of women said they were not satisfied with their initial engagement with An Garda Síochána? The response is inconsistent from the Garda in relation to the 65,000 contacts received. What steps is the Minister taking in relation...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (3 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: I followed this up myself since I joined the Dáil in 2016. We had a task force in 1996 and Eithne FitzGerald was the Labour Party Minister at that stage. Ever since, we have been playing catch up. I am not reassured that the Garda now has courses in place. It was acknowledged by the Garda when it was before us at the public accounts committee recently and further details will be sent...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: With regard to the University of Limerick and the impairment of more than €8 million, I see there is a note there. I have not got a chance to look at it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: Cuirim fáilte romhaibh. The witnesses are all very welcome. I really appreciate their presence. It is important that we have trust in public bodies. I am a firm believer in public bodies and also in doing the best we can to hold them to account, which is not very good in the ten minutes I have. I have read all of the documentation. I realise the volume of patients that CHI and its...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: I am just asking a specific question. Ms Nugent knows well which report I mean and it was not referred to. Ms Nugent did not refer to it. I have it here in front of me. We have a summary of it and we have legal opinion. I am not going into any of that. I am asking why Ms Nugent did not refer to that report when she was before us.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: Ms Nugent did not know about it at all.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: No. When did Ms Nugent find out about it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: That is very significant really. We have all read the report as best we can and the bits of it we have seen are absolutely damning in terms of culture. I do not have the time to read it out but Ms Nugent can take it that I have read every single bit of it. Multiple legacy and deep-rooted issues existed but they were not addressed and so on. Two senior examiners were appointed. Who can...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: Ms Nugent did not know it. Is there anyone here who can tell me why Ms Nugent did not know about this very important report?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: Ms Hardiman obviously had a handover period in relation to Ms Nugent. Was she not informed about all these legacy issues and that some of them were ongoing?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: There was somebody acting as the CEO-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: Why did it not happen with that person?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: I want to stand reassured but I do not take reassurance. Do you know what I do? I take the reports from the Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff. We read them and then we highlight what has been highlighted to us in order to get reassurance that the procedures and practices are not just in place but working. Clearly they were not working and there is nobody here today to tell me...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: When is that coming?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: What is that report on?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: Would Ms Nugent admit, given those reports, all of the internal reports and not to mention the NTPF which we will come back to and will have another internal report, that something is seriously amiss, notwithstanding the great work being done? I acknowledge HIQA said there was a burden on management that was not tolerable. Those are my words; I am paraphrasing. In the meantime, this is the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: I understand that an external review of the effectiveness of the board of management was carried out in 2024.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: Was it done by somebody external?