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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Closures and Job Losses: Discussion with National Off-Licence Association (22 Oct 2013)

Áine Collins: Can minimum pricing be linked to branded products.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Closures and Job Losses: Discussion with National Off-Licence Association (22 Oct 2013)

Áine Collins: I wish to return to the point about minimum pricing versus below-cost selling. I have an article from Alcohol Action Ireland which points out that if we were to introduce below-cost selling for alcohol the law would be extremely complicated. There are issues with regard to transport, VAT and duty, so what would be the actual below-cost price? There would be similar issues. The article...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Closures and Job Losses: Discussion with National Off-Licence Association (22 Oct 2013)

Áine Collins: I welcome everyone here. I wish to raise a few issues. First, rates are a concern for every small business in the country. We have discussed this matter a lot. The challenge is that if we increase it by 1% it is of little benefit to a small business, so we must work out what percentage works best. A lot of work has been done on the matter and consideration has also been given to profit...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (22 Oct 2013)

Áine Collins: 482. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork may expect to have their hip replacement surgery. [44130/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (22 Oct 2013)

Áine Collins: 483. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork may expect their knee surgery at Cappagh Orthopaedic Hospital, Dublin [44131/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Discussion (15 Oct 2013)

Áine Collins: I welcome the witnesses and the opportunity to discuss this subject. I must first declare an interest in that I am an accountant and a member of a certified public accountancy organisation. I support the proposed amendment. I established my own practice 18 years ago. Prior to doing so I had to go to college and undertake professional examinations. I operate in a small town in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Discussion (15 Oct 2013)

Áine Collins: Those changes will be implemented next year. I believe co-operatives are fantastic but we do need to change them. I believe the number of them in the country will increase during the next number of years. Co-operatives turn over more in the world than do multinationals. While they provide a fantastic service, none has been established in Ireland for years because of the bureaucracy around...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Discussion (15 Oct 2013)

Áine Collins: Is Mr. Gordon speaking about companies limited by guarantee?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (15 Oct 2013)

Áine Collins: 305. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when persons (details supplied) will receive disadvantaged payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43011/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ferry Services Provision (15 Oct 2013)

Áine Collins: 450. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the EU or national incentives there may be for entrepreneurs who are investigating the possibility of establishing a ferry link between Cork and Gizon in Northern Spain to facilitate the large volume of freight and tourist traffic that currently have to drive on French and English roads. [43125/13]

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Áine Collins: I accept that. How often is the review of procedures and governance? Mr. Tom Boland said there is a regular review.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Áine Collins: What is that measured against? What are the measurements?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Áine Collins: Who signs off on the report?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Áine Collins: I appreciate that. My concern is that it is all being done internally. Mr. Boland is relying on a report coming from internal functions. I appreciate that there might be fantastic people in all of those functions but our job is to ensure that what happened will never happen again. I note that expenditure in regard to institutions is €1.2 billion. It might be worth considering...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Áine Collins: I accept that. I am just concerned that there is a lot of taxpayers' money involved. I appreciate that the education sector is very important and it is our duty to examine this.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Áine Collins: Were there no governance procedures to oversee the president's office for how expenses were incurred?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Áine Collins: I appreciate that. Were there systems or procedures in place at the time in terms of what was and was not considered to be allowable expenditure?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Áine Collins: We are talking a great deal about systems and procedures and it seems obvious that there were no governing procedures or systems in place.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Áine Collins: How often were they reviewed? Were they ever reviewed or looked at? Obviously not is the answer.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Áine Collins: I appreciate there are policies and procedures for procurement, but how often is there a review of how the institute runs and manages its own budgets and where it spends particular funds?