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- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015 (20 Oct 2016) Alan Farrell: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015 (20 Oct 2016) Alan Farrell: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015 (20 Oct 2016) Alan Farrell: I have a follow-up question on that specific issue. My understanding of what Ms O'Donoghue is saying is that the card allows access to the information-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015 (20 Oct 2016) Alan Farrell: -----and the State provider then has the opportunity to access the information.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015 (20 Oct 2016) Alan Farrell: Okay, that is fine. I would like to ask about the ability of the technology itself to move with the times. Difficulties can arise when technologies become antiquated and unusable within five to ten years of being produced and have to be redone. I hate the expression "future-proofing", but I assume some sort of future-proofing is built into the production of this card. I ask Ms O'Donoghue...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015 (20 Oct 2016) Alan Farrell: I appreciate Ms O'Donoghue's answers.
- Topical Issue Debate: Sport and Recreational Development (19 Oct 2016)
Alan Farrell: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this matter, which deserves attention within the Departments of Transport, Tourism and Sport and Health, for discussion. It relates to the proposed Lusk community 2020 sports plan. This is a community-based collaborative effort involving representatives of local sporting groups and the support of local primary and secondary schools in Lusk, north...
- Topical Issue Debate: Sport and Recreational Development (19 Oct 2016)
Alan Farrell: I very much welcome what the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donovan, has had to say. I imagine the community-based activists involved in this programme will be thrilled to hear his encouraging remarks. The material was written up and prepared well in advance of the budget and was not contingent on it. Regardless, the sports capital grant announcement from the Minister of State is most...
- Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (19 Oct 2016)
Alan Farrell: As we have only three minutes remaining, I ask the Deputy to forgo her introduction of the question to allow more time for supplementary questions and answers.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (19 Oct 2016)
Alan Farrell: On the question, Minister.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (19 Oct 2016)
Alan Farrell: No, speak on the question on the Order Paper.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (19 Oct 2016)
Alan Farrell: The next question is from Deputy Calleary.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Flood Risk Management (19 Oct 2016)
Alan Farrell: That is a matter for the Department.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Flood Risk Management (19 Oct 2016)
Alan Farrell: The Minister of State's time has expired.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Flood Risk Management (19 Oct 2016)
Alan Farrell: The Minister of State can come back in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for Garda Inspectorate: Discussion (19 Oct 2016)
Alan Farrell: That is no problem.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for Garda Inspectorate: Discussion (19 Oct 2016)
Alan Farrell: That is no problem. I thank the representatives of the inspectorate for coming in again. It is good to see the witnesses who we have met a good few times over the years. I will be as brief as I possibly can. I am conscious that the witnesses have been sitting for a while now. A number of statistics were identified in the opening statement and in the various reports of the inspectorate....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for Garda Inspectorate: Discussion (19 Oct 2016)
Alan Farrell: What was the number involved in non-operational activity?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for Garda Inspectorate: Discussion (19 Oct 2016)
Alan Farrell: While we have done the closure of rural Garda stations to death, I am conscious of Mr. Toland’s background experience in the UK. Comparatively speaking between ourselves and the United Kingdom in size and population, we have a massive number of Garda stations. I listened to Mr. Toland’s comments on people’s perceptions as opposed to his own and the fact we have a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for Garda Inspectorate: Discussion (19 Oct 2016)
Alan Farrell: Where should a Garda station be located in a growing community?