Results 4,741-4,760 of 5,828 for speaker:Fiona O'Loughlin
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: I am searching for the letter we sent to Caranua, which sets out the specific issues the committee proposed to raise. Caranua has engaged with the Committee of Public Accounts on financial matters. Having discussed the matter with the Chairman of that committee, specifically with regard to the Private Members' motion tabled in the Dáil last week, I am aware that issues were raised...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: I will not stop Deputy Byrne or any other member from doing so.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: We will suspend briefly. My apologies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: I apologise for the interruption. I hope we will not have another one. The purpose of this part of the meeting is to have an engagement with Caranua on the matters I outlined. On behalf of the joint committee, I welcome again Ms Mary Higgins and Mr. David O'Callaghan, CEO and chairman, respectively, of Caranua. I draw attention to the fact that by virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: No. We will take questions from all members and we will then come back to the witnesses for answers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: I want to draw the line there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: That does not matter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: Senator Ruane is a member of the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: If Ms Higgins and Mr. O'Callaghan do not have the answers to all of the questions, they can feel free to write to us afterwards with any answers for which they do not have the information. We will be happy to circulate that to all of the members and to Deputy Connolly. To say a few words myself, when I started to look at the remit of Caranua and listen to the stories, the first thing that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: It does. I thank Ms Higgins for clarifying it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: Of course.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: That is fine. Does Ms Higgins want to answer some of the other questions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: Okay. I thank Ms Higgins for that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: I ask Ms Higgins to outline the selection criteria for grants. I understand what she has said about the over 70s and people with medical needs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: I am sorry. The Senator can come back afterwards.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: The Senator can come back afterwards.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: Have the witnesses finished their responses?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: I thank the witnesses for their frank answers. I will give each Deputy and Senator one opportunity to readdress any issue they need.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: I will let Deputy Connolly ask her question because I have let Senator Ruane ask several already.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Caranua (30 May 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: I would rather if the Deputy put her question and allowed the witness answer it.