Results 861-880 of 1,321 for speaker:Áine Collins
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Áine Collins: -----operating under section 38 and 39 around the country. I am not taking from that. The CRC objectives state: "We agree to be prudent and resourceful, in our use of time and money," and that relates to how the organisation is managed. The CRC was advised, as outlined in the service agreement, that the salaries were above the scale or the recommended scale. However, the board did not...
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Áine Collins: Right.
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Áine Collins: I accept that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Áine Collins: I accept and appreciate that. There are recruitment agencies that provide interim CEOs for organisations and they can be found the length and breadth of the country and globally. I highly recommend using one such agency when things like this happen and someone can be brought in. I respectfully suggest that my recommendation is implemented, as a matter of urgency, and in light of what we...
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Áine Collins: I appreciate that all of that shall take some time, even to find a new appointment to put in place and so on. I suggest in the interim-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Áine Collins: I thank the witnesses for being with us today. I wish to address a question to Mr. Nugent. How many directors are there in the Friends and Supporters of the Central Remedial Clinic?
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Áine Collins: I am sorry, I missed that. Am I correct that it is a company limited by guarantee?
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Áine Collins: I thought that under company law it was a requirement to have seven directors of a company when it is to be a limited company by guarantee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Áine Collins: Seven members.
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Áine Collins: Are there seven members registered for the company?
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Áine Collins: It is common in practice that the seven members of the company are usually seven directors as well. Was there a reason for that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Áine Collins: A limited company is a statutory company limited by guarantee which requires seven members. Mr. Martin is absolutely correct, but usually in practise, from my experience, they usually end up being the directors as well. I wondered whether there was a reason for that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Áine Collins: In the context of what we have been discussing this morning, from what I see in the 2012 accounts, there is €905,000 from donations, of which €400,000 came from lottery funding. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Áine Collins: In the 2012 accounts, some 85% of funding came from the State - the €16 million which comes in every year to run the organisation - and of the other 15%, some €905,000 comes from charities and donations, of which I understand €400,000 came from the lottery funding, or the friends and supporters company. Am I correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Áine Collins: The Central Remedial Clinic had a turnover of €19 million in total.
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Áine Collins: - - - - €905,000. My understanding is that €400,000 of that came from the friends and supporters or lottery.
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Áine Collins: Some €905,000 has come in from donations from the public. That is correct based on the accounts in one form or another, whether that is the lottery----
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Áine Collins: Thank you.
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Áine Collins: Thank you. My point is that €905,000 has come in from the public in different forms of charity, of which 28% was paid out in top-up payments. That has done phenomenal damage to every charity the length and breadth of the country. We all stand for local charities in our communities and we all work with them. It is absolutely frightening that 28% of the money that came in is going...
- Electricity Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2013)
Áine Collins: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion. As a nation, we import 90% of our energy. We are at the very end of the supply chain in Europe. Russia, to a large extent, controls the natural gas supply to Europe, and we have seen the problems this control is causing in Belarus. While there is still a possibility of gas and oil discovery around our coasts, any finds would, at most,...