Results 31,041-31,060 of 33,214 for speaker:Paschal Donohoe
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor
Vote 19 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 15: Lease of Accommodation for a Probation Service Project (21 Mar 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Will Mr. Purcell explain the reason those legal expenses were incurred?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor
Vote 19 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 15: Lease of Accommodation for a Probation Service Project (21 Mar 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Is that a figure that could have been foreseen earlier in the year, given the number of years the office has been in operation?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor
Vote 19 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 15: Lease of Accommodation for a Probation Service Project (21 Mar 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Will Mr. Purcell detail the target times the Department has in place for the handling of asylum seeker requests and, separately, the handling of citizenship applications?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor
Vote 19 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 15: Lease of Accommodation for a Probation Service Project (21 Mar 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Given what Mr. Purcell has just said, will he inform me of the current position on the target time for dealing with an initial asylum application? What is the position on the target time applying to the leave to remain period to which he referred?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Mar 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: We should have that meeting as soon as possible.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Mar 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: I would be entirely supportive of such a decision.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Mar 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: I wish to raise a point which relates to last week's meeting. I requested that the Secretary General of the Department of Social Protection provide the committee with further figures regarding the interview rates for people in receipt of jobseeker's allowance. Some figures were presented to us relating to last summer. We asked if more up-to-date information could be provided. I assume...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Mar 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: In the context of last week's discussion regarding the table and the number of people who were in receipt of allowances and the difficulties arising, getting the information about the number of people who turn up for interview is very important.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ireland's Role in the Future of the European Union: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: I thank the witnesses for coming in to speak to us. I am sorry I missed the early part of Dr. Barrett’s presentation. I was at another meeting but I might get a copy of his comments afterwards. While we have touched on the level of Europe’s crisis, with chronic unemployment and low levels of growth, it is worth acknowledging that what people thought was going to happen 12 or...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ireland's Role in the Future of the European Union: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: It is important to counter the fact of our terrible difficulty with the fact that the even greater difficulty which some thought likely has not happened. I have three questions on that point. Professor Laffan spoke about the politics of constrained choice. Would we not be dealing with that anyway? Regardless of the nature of the eurozone, or what the EU will look like, globalisation is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ireland's Role in the Future of the European Union: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: I will have some supplementary questions.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013) Paschal Donohoe: It is my understanding that, as it is set up at the moment, the cost of the free travel scheme is the same, regardless of usage.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013) Paschal Donohoe: When somebody gets an entitlement to free travel and receives a card, regardless of how often the card is used, the cost to the taxpayer is unchanged at the moment. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013) Paschal Donohoe: The information we have on the numbers eligible for free travel is the basis for the cost of the scheme.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Thank you. I wanted to clarify that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013) Paschal Donohoe: That would not be fraud.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013) Paschal Donohoe: That brings us back to the discussion on deterrents, on which I understand and accept the Secretary General's point. I am encouraged to note, for example, that the reinstatement rate is high in cases in which the issue is one of medical ineligibility because I often deal with such cases. Generally, these involve an appeals officer making a different decision based on somebody supplying...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Will the Secretary General provide an update on the roll-out of the public service card?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013) Paschal Donohoe: One of the regular themes of our hearings is the need to integrate the information held by agencies. The roll-out of the public service card would be a massive and welcome potential driver of improvements in that regard. I thank Ms O'Donoghue for her presentation and the work done by her Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Has Mr. McCarthy noticed that the statement is unaudited?