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

Kate O'Connell: ...on about this issue but it is particularly stark and it is very important in terms of the skills mix that is brought to the table when the board is making decisions for people in society, of whom 52% are female. The IT system had a budget of €2.9 million, or €2.875 million was spent. That is all understandable, in some ways, but we are going from the guts of €3...

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: 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...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: ...Thursday evening in that, for me, this is about not having a hospital half way out of the ground. We spoke on 16 January about specification with regard to the hospital and we heard about the famous 5 km of cables and we did not know how many lengths of 5 km. Last night I thought about what would not have changed from point A to B. The windows would not have changed. We saw a model...