Results 901-920 of 3,113 for speaker:James O'Connor
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023) James O'Connor: Yes.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023) James O'Connor: I described that at the outset. I am trying to establish something else. I do not want to cut across the Minister.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023) James O'Connor: Containers.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023) James O'Connor: That matter arose during one of my meetings. I have a great deal of stakeholder engagement with the Port of Cork. It has done fundamentally positive work in improving the facilities at Ringaskiddy. The Minister has been down to see them.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023) James O'Connor: The Port of Cork officials were complimentary of the Government’s engagement. However, they stated that there was a great urgency around the M28 project. I wish to move on to road projects, as it is important that we discuss them. The M28 project was one of the barriers to what the Minister just described. It remains so. The officials did not knock the Government in any shape or...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023) James O'Connor: This is my fear. Any public representative who cares about a capital project wants to see that it gets the Humphrey Appleby treatment by the Department and relevant State bodies. All we want is to push it along and get it done. When it takes 12 months to effectively get paperwork done, it is very obviously going to be the case that questions are going to arise from that. I am also...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) James O'Connor: I want to be associated with the Chair's comments on the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Comptroller and Auditor General's office. I wish everyone there well. I also congratulate Dr. O'Reardon on his appointment as Secretary General. I wish him every success. It is a new Department and it must be a very exciting undertaking for all involved. First, I want to raise an...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) James O'Connor: That is very insightful. Given the scale of the money involved, however, at what stage of that year would it have become apparent that that type of funding was becoming available and that there was such an underspend? Was there any conversation with the Minister or any of her Government colleagues in relation to that pot basically remaining unspent? I do not need to reiterate it but it...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) James O'Connor: Yes, but it is an obvious concern that there seems to be a decline. This is about helping the most hard-pressed families that do need the support. That is something we need to look at.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) James O'Connor: Is there anything that could be done to improve the position regarding postgraduate funding? Quite a few PhD candidates have told us that there is a cut-off in the supports available to them if they had spent any time outside Ireland. If they return, they are not eligible, despite having citizenship. The cause of some people returning to Ireland is to do that further education, with the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) James O'Connor: I suppose it has become a common fact of life in Ireland for many people who have obtained an undergraduate degree or a master's degree here to leave, but they intend to return. Does Mr. Moynes think it would be of assistance if the policy was changed to address this specifically in order to try to tempt people to come back here to pursue further studies?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) James O'Connor: It is worth referencing that the income of the fund, of €951 million, has doubled from what it was in 2017. It is a large sum of money. I wanted to touch on that too. I thank Dr. O'Reardon for his response. On the issues that came up during the Comptroller and Auditor General's audit, non-compliance procurement issues for five IT contracts for project support that totalled just...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) James O'Connor: The Department obtained a sanction from the Department of public expenditure to write off €116,715. It related to misappropriated public funds. Can Dr. O'Reardon give an explanation of what happened there? That refers to funds that were provided to the Waterford Area Partnership CLG by Kilkenny and Carlow ETB and Waterford and Wexford ETB, arising from the overclaiming of rental...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) James O'Connor: It says that the money was used for administrative purposes. What does that mean?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) James O'Connor: Has it provided receipts or any evidence of what it spent that money on?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) James O'Connor: It is worth referencing that if it is claimed under a section need, the money has to be spent on that specific need. I am not taking away from the good work that any organisation does.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) James O'Connor: I appreciate my time is out. We might come back to it. I thank the witnesses
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) James O'Connor: Going back to the issue of surpluses, when I was doing my research on the NTF, I read with great interest that there has been a large surplus there too. I want to go into that. The NTF is funded mainly by way of levies on employers collected through employers' pay-related social insurance. The income of the fund in 2022 was just shy of €1 billion, at €951 million. Payments...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2023)
James O'Connor: Thank you Chairperson. I appreciate you allowing me to raise this matter with committee members and the clerk. I wish to raise an item of deep concern to the public accounts committee in relation to the ongoing financial and regulatory issues in the Football Association of Ireland. The information that has now entered the public domain has made clear that urgent questions regarding the...
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (23 Nov 2023)
James O'Connor: 8. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department will review the flood supports administered through the Red Cross for those affected whose insurance excess restricts them from accessing the current scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51587/23]