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- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)
Áine Collins: Does Abtran do that work?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)
Áine Collins: I am trying to find out why we pay Abtran €4.2 million when an assessment showed that the work would cost €1.8 million. There is now integration of documentation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)
Áine Collins: The cost should be less with integrated documentation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)
Áine Collins: Can Mr. Murphy give me the figure?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)
Áine Collins: What is the main reason people call at the moment?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)
Áine Collins: I appreciate that. Why is the system still so expensive if all of these measures have been implemented?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)
Áine Collins: Can Mr. Murphy give me the figures?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)
Áine Collins: The original cost forecast was €1.8 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)
Áine Collins: What has the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform learned? Does it deem the process to be successful? Have lessons been learned in terms of planning and outsourcing of public services?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)
Áine Collins: I accept that. We all accept and understand that situation. If other Departments engage in a similar process, does DPER think it would be better managed as a result of this case and will lessons have been learned?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)
Áine Collins: Good. Let us move on. What happens when students are paid their grants twice or when people receive grants they should not have received? I am happy to see that the interlinking with different Departments has eradicated a lot of cases in which people received grants they should not have received. How is this matter progressing? Will people be fined if they receive a grant erroneously?...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)
Áine Collins: Is there a fine? If somebody received a grant for whatever reason and was not entitled to it, is there an onus on him or her to pay it back? I accept the circumstances Ms Stewart has just outlined.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)
Áine Collins: So it is retrieved.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)
Áine Collins: How much success is there in getting it back?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)
Áine Collins: Are there any plans to determine how more progress could be made-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)
Áine Collins: I have one last question. Does Ms Stewart's organisation have a policy on training and development?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)
Áine Collins: Are the management and leadership getting continuous training and development?
- Employment Equality (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Jun 2015)
Áine Collins: I welcome the opportunity to address this issue and I thank the Deputies opposite for raising it. The issue of LGBT rights in this country has consumed Ireland in the past few years and with good reason. It is all very well to say that we have equality in our hearts but we must have it in our laws if we are to be a progressive and compassionate society. For too long, people felt like they...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)
Áine Collins: I asked last week about inviting former NAMA employees to appear before the committee to hear their stories. Is there progress on that?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)
Áine Collins: I will table an amendment on Report Stage to section 7 regarding the substantial representation of workers.