Results 481-500 of 2,965 for speaker:Robert Dowds
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015) Robert Dowds: Is an organisation driving this project? I would envisage it being attached to a university where they could draw on the skills and knowledge of experts in various areas.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015) Robert Dowds: I have two further questions. Can Mr. Griffin outline the areas such as wave power or other energy resources in which they are working? Can he also indicate the extent to which there is commercial interest in this area or that commercial sector resources can be drawn in to help progress some of these projects?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015) Robert Dowds: What about wind or solar energy?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015) Robert Dowds: Will we achieve that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015) Robert Dowds: I will leave it at that. I thank Mr. Griffin.
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Voluntary Housing Sector (6 May 2015)
Robert Dowds: 532. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if it is the local authority or the voluntary housing organisation which own the homes rented to tenants by organisations such as Cluid or the National Association of Building Co-operatives; his views on the role of voluntary housing organisations in tackling the housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Robert Dowds: Even within the Deputy's group.
- Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Robert Dowds: So does the Deputy.
- Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Robert Dowds: I welcome the process the spring statement brings about whereby, as the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources outlined, it is open to all and sundry to make positive contributions as to how the next budget is constructed. It is very useful to know the financial parameters within which we will be operating and the extent to which we will have extra funds to spend. This...
- Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Robert Dowds: Deputy Finian McGrath knows that without the very skilled work that the Minister did, the Haddington Road agreement would not have been delivered. It took enormous courage and perseverance on his part. I can contrast that to a remark he made to me in conversation during the early days of the Government that he was almost in despair as to whether we would get out of the economic mess. To...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Data (28 Apr 2015)
Robert Dowds: 60. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which persons move from JobBridge to full-time employment; and in view of the upturn in employment her plans to gradually phase out the JobBridge programme. [16330/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (28 Apr 2015)
Robert Dowds: 115. To ask the Minister for Finance the current rate of deposit interest retention tax; the amount collected in the past three financial years; his plans to alter the operation of the tax; and the exemptions that are available to the tax. [16346/15]
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013 (23 Apr 2015) Robert Dowds: We discussed it for three quarters of an hour.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013 (23 Apr 2015) Robert Dowds: I am shocked by what I heard about the Waterford disability case. It has the appearance of yet another powerful organisation putting itself before vulnerable people. As one who in the past taught children who had no verbal ability, I am aware of how vulnerable people like that can be. How many whistleblowers were involved in the Waterford case? I am aware that whistleblowers can be...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013 (23 Apr 2015) Robert Dowds: Did any of those three people suffer adverse consequences as a result of their disclosures?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013 (23 Apr 2015) Robert Dowds: Did any whistleblowers come forward in the 1990s?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013 (23 Apr 2015) Robert Dowds: To go back to my question, were there any whistleblowers in the 1990s? Obviously there were three whistleblowers in recent years. Is Mr. Healy in a position to say whether there were whistleblowers in the 1990s?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013 (23 Apr 2015) Robert Dowds: Did they suffer adversely due to having raised concerns?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013 (23 Apr 2015) Robert Dowds: The reason I am pursuing the question on whistleblowers is that I am aware of cases - and I am not just talking about the case of Sergeant Maurice McCabe - in which whistleblowers were excluded from further work, which is absolutely not the way they should be treated when they uncover something that should not have been happening.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013 (23 Apr 2015) Robert Dowds: Did anybody lose his or her job over malpractice? Was it the case that this particular foster family was not used any more?