Results 10,021-10,040 of 14,616 for speaker:Dara Calleary
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2013)
Dara Calleary: In advance of that briefing session, it would be useful to have the list as the Minister of State has given it.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2013)
Dara Calleary: This is a lengthy amendment. Will the Minister of State give the backdrop to it?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2013)
Dara Calleary: You were on a roll.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2013)
Dara Calleary: Will the Minister of State explain the context of the amendment?
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Compliance (6 Nov 2013)
Dara Calleary: 110. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the provisions that are made for non-direct labour in the draft building control regulation plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47238/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Inspections (6 Nov 2013)
Dara Calleary: 142. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form on a county basis the number of unannounced farm inspections carried out in 2011, 2012 and to the end of September 2013; his views on the practice of unannounced inspections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47234/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Inspections (6 Nov 2013)
Dara Calleary: 143. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to calls for an Agriculture Ombudsman to deal with farmers complaints regarding farm inspections; if he will give consideration to the idea; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47235/13]
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2013)
Dara Calleary: The lack of formal representation being offered to the professions has been raised with us by Chartered Accountants Ireland, CAI. Stakeholders with an interest will be prescribed. Practitioners and those with an interest in accounting matters should have formal representation on the board of the IAASA, as opposed to being there at the discretion of the Minister.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2013)
Dara Calleary: Their view is that, under section 908, the size of the IAASA board is being reduced from 14 to eight. There will be two nominees from the accountancy sector and the remaining board membership will be made up of nominees from various agencies.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2013)
Dara Calleary: I apologise. It is for business users.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2013)
Dara Calleary: Would it not be better to prescribe that? Would the Minister of State consider prescribing that? For instance, if a Minister was unfriendly towards business he or she might decide not to use that discretion.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2013)
Dara Calleary: Yes.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2013)
Dara Calleary: I wish to highlight the point again that we are putting a load of regulations on top of recognised accountancy bodies when we have still not defined what an accountant is. I know we are going to discuss it with the Minister, Deputy Bruton, but I wanted to raise that issue again.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2013)
Dara Calleary: At the very start.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2013)
Dara Calleary: It states in section 819 that this Chapter shall not apply to a company that commenced to be wound up before 1 August 1991. Why is this the case and how many companies are still in a winding-up process some 23 years later? Is that a commonplace occurrence?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2013)
Dara Calleary: Absolutely.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2013)
Dara Calleary: This range touches on a matter that has been particularly relevant in recent years. Will there be new legislative initiatives on share dealings and inspectors' reports in this session?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2013)
Dara Calleary: Generally, given what we have been through in recent years as regards company reports and share dealings.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2013)
Dara Calleary: What is the reason for increasing the period from three to six years?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2013)
Dara Calleary: All right.