Results 721-740 of 3,523 for speaker:Lucinda Creighton

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: To clarify, in his opening remarks Mr. O’Brien said the firm indicated that this level of technology is only available to Government agencies, which would suggest that an individual could not have done it as an individual without the support of a Government agency.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: Does Mr. O'Brien accept that the view of the specialist firm that he hired is that the technology is only available to Government agencies and therefore it is not duplicated by non-Government agencies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: The Minister said yesterday in his statement that there is no evidence that surveillance had taken place. Commissioner FitzGerald said on RTE’s “Prime Time” that with regard to the conference call facility specifically, the international experts that were hired stated that the chances of that particular software not being subject to surveillance were close to zero. Does...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: I will ask two questions together. John Mooney, the journalist in question from The Sunday Timesexplicitly stated that certain events prompted the third security sweep. Deputy Mulherin alluded to that as well. That uncovered the external Wi-Fi shadow device. Could Mr. O’Brien confirm what those events were? On “Prime Time” Commissioner FitzGerald acknowledged that...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Debt (12 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 52. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will estimate the total annual savings to the State under debt servicing costs if the interest charged on Ireland's EFSF, EFSM and bilateral loans to the UK, Denmark and Sweden were reduced by 0.5%; if he will provide an estimate of the total annual savings to the State under debt servicing costs from the first year of maturity of the EFSF, EFSM and...

Reports of Unlawful Surveillance of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Statements (11 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: Yesterday John Mooney, the journalist from The Sunday Times who uncovered the surveillance operation on GSOC went on RTE's "Prime Time" and announced that the Department of Justice and Equality was in crisis. I believe that the reactions of the Taoiseach yesterday and the head of the AGSI today demonstrate that this is undoubtedly a crisis of confidence in the administration of justice in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Data (11 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 141. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank of Ireland will provide a reason for the methodology used for acquiring data produced in published residential mortgage arrears and repossessions statistics; if the banks are subjected to fines or penalties for providing the Central Bank of Ireland with misleading data in these statistics; if the banks in providing this data undergo an...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process (11 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 142. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank of Ireland has considered amending the code of conduct on mortgage arrears to address those borrowers where the lenders, through the mortgage arrears resolution process, have commenced legal proceedings but the financial situation of the borrower has improved in the meantime; if the Central Bank of Ireland could amend the code of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Personal Insolvency Act (11 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is concerned that the omission of third level education fees as part of standard living expenses in a personal insolvency arrangement by the Insolvency Service of Ireland could act as a barrier for access to third level education if a person's income eligibility is above that required to obtain a student grant; if his Department is...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (11 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 285. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there is any mechanism whereby those using Phoenix Project Ireland could be funded either directly or indirectly to increase the number of people to whom Phoenix Project Ireland or similar bodies can provide assistance in dealing with their mortgage arrears; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6279/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (11 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 621. To ask the Minister for Health when his Department is expected to complete the audit of hospitals on the way in which perinatal mortality statistics are being provided to the national perinatal epidemiology centre; if the findings of the audit will be published; the total number of officials responsible for conducting this audit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6733/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (6 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 54. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 46 of 30 January 2014, if he is satisfied that no conflict of interest arises from the special liquidator KPMG managing the sales process of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation loan (details supplied) and selling it to Kennedy Wilson which in 2013 acquired the Opera Finance CMBS portfolio that included KPMG’s...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit Applications (6 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 92. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 4 has been informed that they are entitled to a specified rate of jobseeker's benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5914/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Services Regulation (6 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 143. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Questions Nos 27 and 37 of 1 December 2011, where he stated work on a regulatory impact assessment for the Bill is near completion and that it will be made available in the near future, the reason it took a full two years for him to subsequently publish the regulatory impact assessment on the Legal Services Bill; his...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Services Regulation (6 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 144. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason there was no analysis of multidisciplinary practices, MDPs, in the regulatory impact assessment, RIA, relating to the Legal Services Regulation Bill; his views that in advance of attempting to introduce multidisciplinary practices it would be preferable to make the new regulator to investigate whether or not multidisciplinary...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Services Regulation (6 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 145. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on whether paragraph 25 and 26 of the regulatory impact assessment, RIA, relating to the Legal Services Regulation Bill contradict what is written in paragraph 84(g); if he will elaborate further on what he sees as additional areas of the legal services domain regarding more efficient operating practice models that are not covered in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Investigations (6 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 247. To ask the Minister for Health if he will order a Health Information and Quality Authority inquiry into the tragic deaths of the babies who died in Portlaoise hospital and were the subject of the recent "Prime Time" RTE documentary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6128/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Investigations (6 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 248. To ask the Minister for Health the data regarding the death of a child (details supplied) was not provided to the National Perinatal Epidemiology Centre in UCC; if he will confirm if data regarding the other babies deaths covered in the TV programme were equally not provided to the National Perinatal Epidemiology Centre in UCC; the reason the provision of data to the National Perinatal...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Inspections (6 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 249. To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail the total number of inspections by outside parties that Portlaoise hospital has had in the past five years including the date, nature of inspection and the person who conducted the inspection; if he will also provide details of the outcomes that arose from these inspections for each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6130/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Proposed Legislation (6 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 250. To ask the Minister for Health if he supports legislating for a statutory provision which would allow medical practitioners to make an apology and explanation without these being construed as an admission of liability in a medical negligence claim; if such a statutory provision will be included in the proposed Health Information Bill; if he will prioritise its introduction; and if he...