Results 3,721-3,740 of 26,021 for speaker:Kieran O'Donnell
- 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) Kieran O'Donnell: Vetting is very important but I suggest that vetting could be used for a number of purposes. Will Mr. Purcell consider whether vetting will be required for every single thing a person is involved in or whether the process could be streamlined? I wish to raise the issue of payments for criminal legal aid? I note from a recent media report that the payments have been reduced by more than...
- 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) Kieran O'Donnell: I am not referring to persons of no means but individuals who have significant assets. While everyone is entitled to due process, I have an issue if individuals who have assets gain from this entitlement, as it comes at the expense of hard-pressed taxpayers and law-abiding citizens. Fairness should be applied to the individual who is being represented and to ordinary people. My reference...
- 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) Kieran O'Donnell: If someone is before the Criminal Assets Bureau and courts, can the Department place an attachment on his or her assets to pay for his or her legal counsel?
- 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) Kieran O'Donnell: Why not, given that the CAB and courts are both arms of the State? The position seems ironic.
- 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) Kieran O'Donnell: In most cases the person will not have means, but in certain cases the person has clearly visible assets which come within the scope of the Criminal Assets Bureau. Rather than providing free legal aid, why can the State not place an attachment or lien on the assets to pay for counsel?
- 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) Kieran O'Donnell: Ordinary people find it unfair that the system effectively gives free legal aid to people who may have accrued means through ill gotten gains. While I understand Mr. Purcell's point, there must be another way.
- 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) Kieran O'Donnell: Yes, I understand. My final question is addressed to Ms Creedon. The Office of the Chief State Solicitor is very busy. Is it correct that the issue of counsel fees has not been addressed?
- 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) Kieran O'Donnell: I have a particular question, but I do not wish to go over old ground.
- 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) Kieran O'Donnell: Has the number of barristers involved in the free legal aid service been discussed? If not, how many are involved in it and what are the highest fees paid to individual barristers? I ask Ms Creedon to explain how the system works.
- 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) Kieran O'Donnell: The Attorney General selects the panels.
- 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) Kieran O'Donnell: How many counsel are on the panels?
- 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) Kieran O'Donnell: What is the average payment made to barristers? What were the three highest payments made in 2012?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Recovery and Resolution Framework for Financial lnstitutions: Discussion (4 Apr 2013)
Kieran O'Donnell: I thank Mr. Carrigan and his colleagues for attending. Much of the subject matter is very technical in nature and I would like to distil for the ordinary taxpayer and citizen how the framework will work in practice. People will want to know if the European-wide supervisory, resolution, recovery and banking union system will prevent a situation similar to the one that arose in September 2008...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Recovery and Resolution Framework for Financial lnstitutions: Discussion (4 Apr 2013)
Kieran O'Donnell: How often will they have to update their recovery plans? Will it be on a yearly or a six-monthly basis?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Recovery and Resolution Framework for Financial lnstitutions: Discussion (4 Apr 2013)
Kieran O'Donnell: Will they be reported to both the Irish and the European authorities?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Recovery and Resolution Framework for Financial lnstitutions: Discussion (4 Apr 2013)
Kieran O'Donnell: Will each member state have its own resolution authority?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Recovery and Resolution Framework for Financial lnstitutions: Discussion (4 Apr 2013)
Kieran O'Donnell: How much will the Irish taxpayer have to put into these resolution funds and the ESM?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Recovery and Resolution Framework for Financial lnstitutions: Discussion (4 Apr 2013)
Kieran O'Donnell: If the deposit scheme was up to €100,000, would it then be 1% of all funds below €100,000? How much will this scheme cost the Irish taxpayer?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Recovery and Resolution Framework for Financial lnstitutions: Discussion (4 Apr 2013)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is just short of €1 billion. What is it meant by covered deposits in the Irish context?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Recovery and Resolution Framework for Financial lnstitutions: Discussion (4 Apr 2013)
Kieran O'Donnell: The eligible liabilities guarantee scheme finished on 31 March. Are there any five-year deposits over €100,000 that would be continued to be covered by the scheme?