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- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Review (27 Feb 2013)
Robert Dowds: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the financial consideration that is given to community employment scheme sponsors that entered contracts with suppliers prior to the reduction of the materials grant in order to allow them to fulfill the terms of the contracts. [10683/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Funding (27 Feb 2013)
Robert Dowds: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the criteria under which a community employment scheme sponsor may qualify for a top-up materials grant, as announced by her in 2012. [10684/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Review (27 Feb 2013)
Robert Dowds: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will give consideration to any measure which could reduce the cost currently c. €1,500 of annual audits to community employment scheme sponsors, which are limited companies. [10685/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (28 Feb 2013)
Robert Dowds: To ask the Minister for Finance if VAT is charged on the purchase of a second-hand touring coach where the coach has previously been registered here. [10844/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (28 Feb 2013)
Robert Dowds: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the operators of coach touring companies here cannot register for VAT, and therefore can not apply to reclaim VAT in the normal way. [10845/13]
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Robert Dowds: Ba mhaith liom fáilte a chur roimh na hoifigigh atá i láthair inniu. Mar iar-mhúinteoir, ba mhaith liom a rá go bhfuair mise agus mo chomhghleacaithe ár n-ioncam in am ar feadh na blianta. Is maith an rud é go n-oibríonn cuid mhaith rudaí go maith. I missed some of the questions from Deputy Donohoe and I may overlap a little with him, so I hope...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Robert Dowds: Turning to special needs assistants, SNAs, I am surprised that the spending in the area is down by €10.4 million. Perhaps I am incorrect but I understood that the number of SNAs was maintained. What is the explanation for that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Robert Dowds: It is primarily because some SNAs would not have started at the beginning of the school year and came into the system later. By the year end, had numbers reached the maximum of, if I recall correctly, 10,475?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Robert Dowds: How is that expected to pan out?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Robert Dowds: Perhaps I should move to that area.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Robert Dowds: Was there a significant delay between the need for SNAs in certain situations and the delivery of that special needs assistance to the relevant students?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Robert Dowds: Presumably individual SNAs that were taken on later would have twiddled their thumbs, to some degree, while awaiting employment.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Robert Dowds: Mr. Ó Foghlú referred to the National Council for Special Education. The explanation for its savings was that it was due to a reduction in grant funding made available due to an operating surplus in its accounts. Can the secretary general explain how the operation surplus arose? How does the Department monitor surpluses and bank balances belonging to bodies within its remit?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Robert Dowds: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Robert Dowds: Am I right in thinking that the work of special educational needs organisers comes under the NCSE? I happened to have worked in the area of special education before I was elected to the Dáil and we often found them very difficult to deal with in that it was very difficult to get a response out of them and they would let things drag on. I can give one example in my own situation where I...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Robert Dowds: Does the Department monitor that or does it depend on third level institutions monitoring that and coming back to the Department if they see that a particular cohort of students are in difficulty?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Robert Dowds: On the question of temporary school accommodation, as somebody who on many occasions worked in temporary school accommodation, I am very conscious of the fact that there is a sense in which one is throwing good money after bad in that there is a limit to how long temporary accommodation lasts. Is the amount of money spent on prefabs and so on increasing or decreasing? To what extent are...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Robert Dowds: When Mr. Ó Foghlú says build, does he mean to build a permanent structure?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Robert Dowds: I am glad to hear that this is the trend and I hope it continues, because it certainly is an unsatisfactory situation. To what extent does it cost more to heat a prefab than permanent school classroom?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013) Robert Dowds: The more we continue down that route, the better. Apart from anything else, it is not a good thing for children to be in substandard temporary accommodation. It does not create the right frame of mind for children in terms of their learning experience. I understand the summer works scheme and the minor works grants have been suspended because of financial constraints. As someone who has...