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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Company Registration (10 Dec 2013)

Robert Dowds: 228. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will consider introducing legislation to create a public register of companies which would contain details on the identity of the true owners of each company operating in the State, as is set to be introduced in the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52940/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (10 Dec 2013)

Robert Dowds: 500. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the threshold for the over 70s medical card is not doubled for a couple in view of the fact that many other tax credits and allowances are doubled for a couple; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52714/13]

Bethany Home: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Dec 2013)

Robert Dowds: I regret having to speak on this motion, as it refers to another sorry tale from our past of how women in particular who were out of kilter with the accepted norms of society in the first half of the 20th century were treated. In certain respects, the story of Bethany Home undoubtedly has similarities with the story of the conditions that women in Catholic institutions went through. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (11 Dec 2013)

Robert Dowds: 188. To ask the Minister for Health when the Health Service Executive expects to approve the funding to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of a speech and language therapist working for an organisation (details supplied) in, Palmerstown, Dublin 20, and which has resulted in the cutting of speech and language services for young children in the area who are badly in need of such...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Dec 2013)

Robert Dowds: Chairman, I indicated also.

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Robert Dowds: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee. In particular I thank Mr. Kiely for coming in. I was a teacher in a school under CRC management and I am very concerned that the organisation should emerge stronger from this issue. I am very aware of the very important work that so many people do in the organisation from the ground up. I know how hard-working and dedicated are most...

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Robert Dowds: Is that right across the organisation?

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Robert Dowds: I am aware of one organisation that has not been informed of events, at least as of the day before yesterday. Why was the job not publicly advertised?

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Robert Dowds: Does the witness not think new blood could have been brought in if the CRC had looked outside the organisation? Mr. Conlan was on the board.

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Robert Dowds: The top-up payments to Mr. Kiely have been discussed at length. I understand a number of other people are getting top-up payments. Can Mr. Nugent say either who they are or the positions they hold and why it was considered necessary to give them extra remuneration over what the other members of staff received, which would be in line with State payment policy?

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Robert Dowds: What positions are those and how much are the top-ups for those positions?

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Robert Dowds: While the list is being-----

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Robert Dowds: Why was it considered necessary to give those particular people top-ups and not others who, I am sure, were working to their full capacity as well?

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Robert Dowds: Does Mr. Nugent believe, with hindsight in the current circumstances, that those top-ups were morally justifiable, given the impact it is having on the funding coming to the CRC from voluntary sources and, indeed, by extension, to other charitable organisations?

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Robert Dowds: I mean "Yes" or "No".

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Robert Dowds: Mr. Nugent is not answering the question about whether it was morally justifiable-----

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Robert Dowds: Could the CRC not ask them to give up their extra payment voluntarily? Has that been done?

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Robert Dowds: I am referring to the people who were getting salaries in excess of the HSE guidelines.

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Robert Dowds: Would Mr. Nugent consider doing so, given the very negative impact this has had on an organisation which does such good work and the extending damage it does to other charitable organisations which have nothing to do with this directly? I ask him to consider that question.

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Robert Dowds: I appreciate that. Judges were asked to take a reduction and, in fairness, a small number did.