Results 721-740 of 7,777 for speaker:Joe Costello
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 10 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 11 - Control of Supplementary Welfare Allowances
Chapter 12 - Farm Assist
Social Insurance Fund 2013 (28 May 2015) Joe Costello: Okay. Ms O'Donoghue might send some of that on to us with the guidelines-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 10 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 11 - Control of Supplementary Welfare Allowances
Chapter 12 - Farm Assist
Social Insurance Fund 2013 (28 May 2015) Joe Costello: -----because it is the variations and the discrepancies that matter. My final point arises from the question about community employment pensions or the non-CE pension fund. Ms O'Donoghue mentioned that part of the reason there was no pension was that the CE schemes were operated by local companies. However, the local companies are in place because the Department insisted that it be a...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 10 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 11 - Control of Supplementary Welfare Allowances
Chapter 12 - Farm Assist
Social Insurance Fund 2013 (28 May 2015) Joe Costello: The funding for the supervisors comes from the Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 10 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 11 - Control of Supplementary Welfare Allowances
Chapter 12 - Farm Assist
Social Insurance Fund 2013 (28 May 2015) Joe Costello: I know, but we are talking about pension entitlements. All the funding that goes to CE schemes, whether it is for the company that operates the scheme or the employee - the person who is engaged in delivering the scheme - comes from Ms O'Donoghue's Department. Therefore, how can she simply say that because it is a local company that is doing the employment, there cannot be a pension? The...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 10 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 11 - Control of Supplementary Welfare Allowances
Chapter 12 - Farm Assist
Social Insurance Fund 2013 (28 May 2015) Joe Costello: It is a local company-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 10 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 11 - Control of Supplementary Welfare Allowances
Chapter 12 - Farm Assist
Social Insurance Fund 2013 (28 May 2015) Joe Costello: -----and, therefore, there cannot be a State pension.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 10 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 11 - Control of Supplementary Welfare Allowances
Chapter 12 - Farm Assist
Social Insurance Fund 2013 (28 May 2015) Joe Costello: So the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform will sort it out for us?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 10 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 11 - Control of Supplementary Welfare Allowances
Chapter 12 - Farm Assist
Social Insurance Fund 2013 (28 May 2015) Joe Costello: That is another day's question.
- Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (27 May 2015)
Joe Costello: Ba mhaith liom fáilte a chur roimh an Aire. I welcome the Minister and compliment him on his tenacity in dealing successfully with what has been a substantial challenge. In December 2014, when IAG made its first bid for Aer Lingus, many of us were appalled at the woeful inadequacy of the bid. It appeared to be a predatory bid - a straightforward takeover of the company without...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Living City Initiative (19 May 2015)
Joe Costello: 129. To ask the Minister for Finance the process for determining the areas covered by the Living City initiative; if consideration will be given to expanding the areas covered to include Broadstone and Royal Canal Bank in Dublin 7, Infirmary Road and Montpelier in Dublin 7, both sides of Aughrim Street in Dublin 7, New Wapping Street and Castleforbes in Dublin 1 and Seville Place in Dublin 1;...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (19 May 2015)
Joe Costello: 327. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide facilities to the acute hospitals that have not had major structural work undertaken in the past 30 years; his plans for these facilities; if he will refurbish, rebuild or replace the acute hospitals that need this work over the next 15 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19450/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (19 May 2015)
Joe Costello: 328. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the names and locations of non-teaching hospitals; the services that each provides; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19451/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centre Data (19 May 2015)
Joe Costello: 329. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the development of the primary care network; if he will provide details of the primary care centres in operation; the range of services that each provides; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19452/15]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 May 2015)
Joe Costello: There is an issue in regard to University College Cork.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 May 2015)
Joe Costello: We received a very strong reply from the Secretary General of the Department on UCC, indicating that it is not in compliance with public pay policy. The university was given an ultimatum to be in compliance by 15 May which is tomorrow and to cease any further payments that were out of line with that compliance, prior to that. Have we received confirmation from the president of UCC that the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 May 2015)
Joe Costello: It appears that the information that was supplied originally by the college is not in accordance with the information that was supplied subsequently. These are serious matters that need to be addressed. After the president of the university replies to the Secretary General, we can look into the matter in greater detail.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 May 2015)
Joe Costello: I agree with the Chairman that we should bring forward the meeting with the Department. I would like to read into the record the letter sent by the Secretary General to the president of the college:The Department, however, has established from an analysis of the schedule submitted by the President with his letter that it includes additional unauthorised payments which were not previously...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 May 2015)
Joe Costello: I agree with you on that point. What we are talking about is Government pay policy, but we are not getting full information. It is only dripping out subsequently when we hear of breaches of pay policy that are unauthorised. This is a clear case of it. Some of the other issues raised are related to this. It is important that this be done urgently and that the matter be raised at this...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 May 2015)
Joe Costello: Given that we are not clear whether the awards have been made from public moneys or insurance money, surely that is an area that requires clarification in its own right. One of the major points raised by Deputy Sean Fleming at the last meeting was that we are talking about a totally different scenario where many of the wards of court are living to quite an old age and the issue of investment...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 May 2015)
Joe Costello: Has there been any response from the Office of the Chief State Solicitor and the Courts Service in respect of coming in to give the committee a briefing?