Results 841-860 of 3,336 for speaker:Kate O'Connell
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: We have had words about sparing women the experience of court. This is not sparing women.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: How often does that happen? I have never heard of that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: I get that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: I get that we cannot be throwing money around willy-nilly. However, if someone is an expert, they are an expert. They should be impartial. One expert should do in this case.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: That is more theoretical.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: Assessing the physical state of someone's rectum is not as out there as that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: Let us pull back and consider a woman who has had an incident in childbirth that has left her damaged. She may also be dealing with a baby with a catastrophic injury. Does Mr. Breen think it is appropriate that the next thing we put her through is to prove how much she has suffered? That seems lacking, as a way of going about things. I understand that there may be a large variation. For...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: Will periodic payments be introduced?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: How should that progress? Will it remain this way? In the case of a catastrophic injury to a child, would there be a payment now and the remainder would depend on outcomes and interventions? Are we moving towards that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: The payouts have been discussed by this committee at length. They keep increasing. Is the proportion of the payout to the person versus the legal fee 50:50? That is my understanding. Is it a case of give and take?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: Of the total claim.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: If we hear on the news that someone got a settlement of €1 million, does that mean that €230,000 to €270,000 will go to his or her legal people?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: In the ballpark of 25% to 30% of the money paid out in damages is for the legal people. Is the progression linear? The more someone gets, the more the legal people get.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: I understand. What about in the case of mediation? What is the balance in ballpark figures? Going through the mediation process might be less adversarial for a woman and it seems to be preferable in most cases, but are the solicitors and senior counsels getting the same legal fees as they would were they before a court?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: Mr. Breen mentioned the court, the Bar Council and the two senior counsels. Will he elaborate? How long ago was that and did he call it an agreement, chat or something else? How did that happen?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: That is all right.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: How long ago was that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: Just one would be paid.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: When did that practice change?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: Has there been much mention of it? I had not heard about it until today.