Results 1,101-1,120 of 2,211 for speaker:Paul Connaughton
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (21 Jan 2014)
Paul Connaughton: 573. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when AEOS payment wil issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2849/14]
- ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Second Stage (22 Jan 2014)
Paul Connaughton: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for the opportunity to speak on this Bill. If citizens across this country are to receive equal treatment, then access to basic infrastructure is vital and what we have at present, in terms of industries and householders reliant on broadband, is a two-speed Ireland. I welcome the provisions of this Bill, which will provide greater freedom to ESB in terms...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications (23 Jan 2014)
Paul Connaughton: 195. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon was excluded from the new agri-environment options scheme in view of the fact that they have callows land which should have made them eligible for the new scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3295/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance Review (23 Jan 2014)
Paul Connaughton: 208. To ask the Minister for Health the mechanisms being put in place to cater for persons who formerly received the mobility allowance; the plans that exist to introduce a new regime or when is it envisaged that such a regime might be in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3294/14]
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Paul Connaughton: I welcome the witnesses and I thank the Commissioner for the evidence he has given to date. In his initial contribution, the Commissioner referred to Garda discretion. He referred to one matter in the context of bees worrying livestock. While I very much hope that the cows involved were okay, he can see - from the public's perspective - it seems unusual that discretion was used in that...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Paul Connaughton: I accept that and I certainly have no issue with the idea of discretion, particularly as it could be used in a common-sense way in many other areas and by certain Departments. However, what might constitute discretion to one member of the force might not constitute it to his or her colleagues. Members of the public would be concerned with regard to situations where certain members of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Paul Connaughton: When is that supposed to finish?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Paul Connaughton: What happens in a case where one might find a Garda has used discretion that one may not agree with? What happens then?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Paul Connaughton: How would that be dealt with?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Paul Connaughton: If someone is caught speeding and sent a notice for two penalty points and a fine, I believe another is sent out after that. If they do not respond to that, it ends up in court. What is happening in respect of the convictions of all those who end up in court? What kind of figures are we looking at in respect of prosecution?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Paul Connaughton: In respect of fixed charge notices.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Paul Connaughton: If people ignore the notice and the second notice, are they all getting charged through the Courts Service?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Paul Connaughton: Have there been cases where they have been struck out in court?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Paul Connaughton: On what grounds?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Paul Connaughton: Where is the cost involved? The Garda Síochána sends out the notice of the penalty points and the €80 fine. It then goes to court and it gets struck out for some reason. Who then covers the costs?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Paul Connaughton: One hears this anecdotally and the Commissioner might be able to disprove this today. If someone ignores the letter and the second letter and turns up in court and says they never got the letters, is that struck out?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Paul Connaughton: How would there be proof?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Paul Connaughton: Is the Garda Síochána working with the Courts Service on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Paul Connaughton: How far along is it with that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Paul Connaughton: We are approaching the anniversary of the murder of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe. Are we further along in that investigation?