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- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Paschal Donohoe: The authority gets the money back.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Is Mr. O'Keeffe's point that the larger amount of money upfront is needed to allow them leverage larger amounts of money elsewhere?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Only section 481 accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Another point made in the report relates to consideration of past performance of a contractor. It appears to be a reasonable observation and I am sure the authority has acted on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Paschal Donohoe: On the issue of monitoring, a point made is that 12 of the 25 cases experienced slippage in their contracted delivery schedules. How does the authority handle such issues?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Does the authority have an understanding of what that improvement has been?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Paragraph 20.56 of the report recommends that, "The BAI should consider setting output targets for categories of programming objectives", and that Mr. O'Keeffe's office only agreed with this in part. What is Mr. O'Keeffe's view of that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013) Paschal Donohoe: By open, does that mean the authority does not lay down specific criteria for applicants? Do the applicants put in the requests and the authority takes it from there?
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge Application (23 Apr 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: 180. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7 is being charged universal social charge on their pension income and income from a home help job that they have despite that income not being assured from week to week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18255/13]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Economic and Monetary Union: Discussion (23 Apr 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: I welcome everyone. The Chairman will be joining us soon. The subject of today's meeting is completing economic and monetary union.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: VFM Report on Reserve Defence Force: Discussion with Minister for Defence (23 Apr 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: The committee has held a number of meetings on this and intends to publish a report on it. I am delighted to welcome two of the foremost economists in Ireland, Dr. Alan Ahearne and Professor John McHale, who will be familiar to all the members. I thank them for attending this meeting to give us their views on this topic. Before inviting our guests to speak I must issue the privilege...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: VFM Report on Reserve Defence Force: Discussion with Minister for Defence (23 Apr 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: Thank you Dr. Ahearne. I now turn to colleagues' questions and Senator Reilly was the first to signal.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: VFM Report on Reserve Defence Force: Discussion with Minister for Defence (23 Apr 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their contribution. To continue the theme regarding the causes and limitations of austerity, if financial markets will not lend to a country, or will only lend at a rate which is too expensive for the country, what are the choices open to it? We need to distinguish between countries which have access to financial markets and countries which do not....
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (24 Apr 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: 97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the circumstance behind the decision to remove the entitlement to resource teaching hours in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19417/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (24 Apr 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: 205. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if legislation will be introduced to allow residents the right to light leylandii hedges impacting their own properties;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19412/13]
- Companies Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: When I was a Member of the last Seanad, the then Senator, Joe O'Toole, used to stand up regularly and ask the various Ministers who came to the House the position with regard to the consolidation of company law. He made the point that this consolidation had been long heralded and promised, but deadline after deadline had been missed. The response the Senator always received was that due to...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) Paschal Donohoe: I welcome Mr. O'Brien and his colleagues. I will be brief as I am due to speak next in the Dáil on a Bill. I would like to focus on a number of areas but will commence by returning to the issue of the payment of consultants and the delays in this regard. In Mr. O'Brien's view, what is the reason for the delay in consultants signing off on forms?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) Paschal Donohoe: I agree that it is unlikely there is any badness or malice involved. However, this does influence when they are paid. If a consultant knows that signing a particular document will influence when he or she will be paid, it will be a reasonably influential factor in how he or she allocates his or her time. There is a clear pattern as many of the consultants, until the progress demonstrated...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) Paschal Donohoe: It is very strange and it strikes me that, in the discussion we have had, it is probably the most basic question. Having done the work, why would these people not look to be paid for it? I can imagine for a cohort of people, payment could be a secondary matter. For the magnitude of delay, it is striking that so many decide not to get paid quickly.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Has the witness ever thought to do some work on finding out why that is so?