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Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: I will leave it at that.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Charities Regulation (21 May 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: 148. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is permitted for a registered charity to make a political donation and still be able to receive tax relief on their income; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23676/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Accountability Report 2012: Discussion with European Movement Ireland (21 May 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the witnesses for coming in and congratulate them for publishing this report. It reminded me of what can happen when a book is published and the person reading it is worried he or she might be mentioned in it. He or she looks at the index to see if his or her name is there and depending on the book, he or she is either disappointed or relieved one way or another. Because we are the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Accountability Report 2012: Discussion with European Movement Ireland (21 May 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: To return to Mr. Richmond's comments, we need to rethink the reasons we want citizens to support the European project. In the past, these reasons were clear. Initially, it was argued that European integration is a vastly better alternative to the wars that have destroyed our continent. Subsequently, an argument was made that we should support European integration because of the economic...

Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Second Stage (22 May 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to share time with Deputy Jerry Buttimer. One of the many pleasures of being able to contribute in the House is that by a quirk of good luck I always seem to follow Deputy Shane Ross. This is something I also experienced during the previous Seanad. On hearing his latest eloquent reflection, I was given pause to think there were two Deputy Shane Rosses. The first is the orator, the...

Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Second Stage (22 May 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: The reason they are not is his statement that he does not trust himself. The difficulty with that is while Deputy Shane Ross might not trust himself, his constituents, rightly, do.

Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Second Stage (22 May 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: In numbers that are enviously high.

Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Second Stage (22 May 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: The Acting Chairman may share the same envy. Deputy Shane Ross's constituents trust him because of his ability to query individuals and issues in other fora apart from the Oireachtas. If his constituents trust him to perform that role well, why should we not allow such a role to be performed with proper functions and capacities by the Oireachtas? Why should we not allow that role to be...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foreign Adoptions (22 May 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: 241. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide an update from the Adoption Authority of Ireland on the status of an application for a child (details supplied) in Dublin 3 who was adopted from Cambodia three years ago; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24508/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (23 May 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: 164. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding an application in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7; when this application will be considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24903/13]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 May 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: On that point, have we received responses from the other witnesses we contacted in regard to this?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 May 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: Absolutely.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 May 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: On the letter, I am interested in a comment made by Professor Brennan. We should acknowledge she has said she will appear before the committee, which is to be welcomed. She said it may well also be that the committee may well wish to consider whether it wishes to hear from other persons holding executive or board positions in addition to Mr. Bradshaw and Mr. Moloney on those matters.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 May 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 May 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Chairman.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 May 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: I should make the point, given that I was one of those who made the request, that the only reason I named the individuals concerned was because they arose in the course of our questioning in previous committee meetings. It is a fair point to state that we should invite in all of those who had the ability to be involved. We are trying to be fair to all involved so that everybody has the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: What we agreed was that any other committee member who wished to speak on the topic could do so and when this part of the meeting is complete we will move back to the rest of the accounts.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: Does any other colleague want to come in?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: Sure, absolutely.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: Does any other member have a question? No. I thank the witnesses for their contribution to this area and the Chairman for his responses. I propose we suspend the meeting until 11.55 a.m. when we will start off with Deputy Nash on other issues in the report. Is that agreed? Agreed.