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- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) Robert Dowds: Those involved could vary from minors to seniors suffering from dementia and the like.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) Robert Dowds: Can the funds run out and, if so, what happens then?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) Robert Dowds: Do the families of the people concerned have any input or is it left entirely up to the Courts Service?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) Robert Dowds: My last question relates to the poor box. I understand that since 2011 judges have lost the power to use the poor box in certain cases. To which cases does this apply and how is poor box money used? How much is collected under the poor box scheme and who manages the fund?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) Robert Dowds: For what is it used?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) Robert Dowds: What type of penalty?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) Robert Dowds: It seems rather strange if judges have lost the power to use the poor box in certain cases but are still doing so. Presumably, they are supposed to operate within the law, like the rest of us.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) Robert Dowds: Who decides to whom the money is paid?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) Robert Dowds: Is it possible for people to make contributions to the poor box in respect of any type of conviction?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) Robert Dowds: Therefore, the Courts Service has no function in the matter.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) Robert Dowds: Is Mr. Ryan suggesting the poor box is going to be abolished?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (20 Nov 2014) Robert Dowds: I thank Mr. Ryan.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (25 Nov 2014)
Robert Dowds: 192. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce a vacant sites tax on land that is zoned but has yet to be built on; if so, the rate he will apply to such land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44797/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (25 Nov 2014)
Robert Dowds: 304. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will include Westbank orphanage and other relevant protestant institutions in the proposed mother and baby homes inquiry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44943/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Tax Exemptions (25 Nov 2014)
Robert Dowds: 562. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will put in place a system whereby persons with off-road vehicles are reminded on an annual basis to confirm whether those vehicles remain off the road in order to avoid incurring fines. [44923/14]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Planning and Development in Ireland: Irish Planning Institute (25 Nov 2014)
Robert Dowds: I thank the witness for appearing before the committee. I related to much of what Deputy Stanley said and agree wholeheartedly with his remarks about apartments. I think there is a definite place for apartments but the whole idea has not been sold well due to the lack of quality in some of what has been provided. That has partly to do with the construction but also with the whole...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Planning and Development in Ireland: Irish Planning Institute (25 Nov 2014)
Robert Dowds: Not at the beginning. I was a councillor in South Dublin County Council where we had a dispute with the council about the development of Clonburris SDZ, which still has not happened. It ended up going before a hearing that involved An Bord Pleanála and it was able to overturn quite a number of decisions the council made. I think that what some of the councillors want is going to be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Planning and Development in Ireland: Irish Planning Institute (25 Nov 2014)
Robert Dowds: It is a problem in Dublin where it should not be a problem.
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Meters (27 Nov 2014)
Robert Dowds: 199. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the water metres being installed by Irish Water are capable of smart metering, that is, if they are capable of being read remotely. [45597/14]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Nov 2014)
Robert Dowds: I presume communication was made with the legal people about them not being here last week.