Results 20,101-20,120 of 26,053 for speaker:Kieran O'Donnell
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Entitlements for Self-Employed: ISME, SEA and SFA (26 Mar 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: One joined a scheme to have income protection if one fell ill. It was basically a private insurance scheme. There used to be issues with such schemes in past years. My question was just an aside.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Entitlements for Self-Employed: ISME, SEA and SFA (26 Mar 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is Deputy O’Dea talking about income protection?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Entitlements for Self-Employed: ISME, SEA and SFA (26 Mar 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is different as I was not including private pensions. I was talking purely about income protection sold in the form of stand-alone policies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Entitlements for Self-Employed: ISME, SEA and SFA (26 Mar 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: The difficulty is that they have many more assets and, in technical terms, they could be insolvent.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Entitlements for Self-Employed: ISME, SEA and SFA (26 Mar 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: Yes. In reality, however, a person whose business has unfortunately collapsed-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Entitlements for Self-Employed: ISME, SEA and SFA (26 Mar 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: If a person is a PAYE employee, his or her family home will not be assessed. The Senator's point is valid but with the self-employed-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Entitlements for Self-Employed: ISME, SEA and SFA (26 Mar 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: Senator Moloney made a very good point. A person who owns a small business and who is experiencing a rough time will, with the best will in the world, drop certain things. Everyone agrees in principle that there should be jobseeker's benefit for the self-employed. That is a given. The question that arises, therefore, is how to design it in such a way that will allow everyone to buy in....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Entitlements for Self-Employed: ISME, SEA and SFA (26 Mar 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: As an observation, would it be considered a first step that instead of bringing in absolutely the same terms as would apply for someone who is an employee in the strictest sense, we would bring in an initial measure so someone who is self employed would qualify for, say, three months? I come from this background myself and I see this in my constituency all the time. The biggest issue that...
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (13 Mar 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: Like other speakers, I believe the progress made to date by the Government is significant. General indicators show our debt is now very much sustainable and that growth has returned. Unemployment levels are dropping; employment is increasing and there is low inflation. Generally, therefore, progress is reasonable. I wish to talk about challenges at national level and those that arise for...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: It was €3.3 million with the bondsman.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: Could the Department have gone back to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and made a case for a derogation or something for this project in order to fund it into 2013?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: When did the Department make the decision to pull the plug?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: When in 2012?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: When did McNamara go into receivership?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: Two years elapsed before the Department made the decision to pull the plug. Would that have been sufficient time for the Department to go back to the public procurement rule and retender? There was a two year period.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: As I am a Limerick Deputy, I ask Mr. Purcell to update me on the new courts complex and buildings to be located at Mulgrave Street and Costello's Yard.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: On Mulgrave Street.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: What is the timeframe?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: When does the Accounting Officer anticipate construction will get under way and the project will be completed?