Results 121-140 of 334 for examiner speaker:Niall Collins

Did you mean: examine speaker:67?

Companies (Statutory Audits) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jan 2018)

Niall Collins: Fianna Fáil supports the Companies (Statutory Audits) Bill 2017 and will examine amendments to strengthen it further and to ensure there is proportionate impact on small and micro-sized businesses following its enactment. However, we have serious reservations about the loss of the audit exemption to small companies. I will return to this later. As a policy response to the global...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment and Jobs Growth: Discussion (6 Dec 2017)

Niall Collins: ...an infrastructure court? It would be similar to the commercial court where commercial disputes are resolved one way or another in a timely manner. Is there merit in the Courts Service examining the establishment of an infrastructure court? As we experience a ramping up of our capital and infrastructural development up and down the country over the next few years, there will be further...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment and Jobs Growth: Discussion (6 Dec 2017)

Niall Collins: Earlier in this meeting, Deputy Neville spoke about the potential for developing the Askeaton site as a data centre. I understand that IDA Ireland intends to examine that site. Will it do a feasibility study on it? I ask Mr. Shanahan to give us a commitment that IDA Ireland will return to this committee to tell Deputies Neville and Quinlivan and myself, in particular, whether it intends to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Gift Vouchers Data (5 Dec 2017)

Niall Collins: ...review or research paper on the regulation of gift vouchers here; the data regarding the estimated value of unredeemed gift vouchers by persons annually over same period; and if her Department has examined the regulatory position of expiry dates of vouchers such as is provided in other jurisdictions. [51829/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (28 Nov 2017)

Niall Collins: 106. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has examined a special assignee relief programme that is focused on SMEs in order to attract highly skilled talent to work in sectors that have skills and labour shortages. [49985/17]

Other Questions: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (23 Nov 2017)

Niall Collins: ...Bank of Ireland, the Commission for Energy Regulation or the Data Protection Commissioner have powers to impose a financial sanction, yet this regulator does not. It is high time we seriously examined this matter. The Minister of State has cited to us on a number of occasions when we have raised this matter the constitutional issue but no more than the lack of regulations covering the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (23 Nov 2017)

Niall Collins: ..., two major consultancy, auditing and accountancy firms, believe this is the case. In regard to the working group on the revision of state aid rules to which the Tánaiste referred, will it examine specific issues such as the €200,000 limit, which is posing a huge barrier? During a previous Question Time the Tánaiste referred to a proposal to introduce a rescue and...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland Data (26 Oct 2017)

Niall Collins: ...advance planning permission for future data centres; the name of the company commissioned for this task; the cost involved; when this report will be published; and if IDA vacant sites are being examined for possible use. [45590/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (17 Oct 2017)

Niall Collins: 478. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he will take to examine road connectivity between Rosslare Europort and the west of the country; his plans to link the M11, N24, M3, M4 and M7 in view of the importance in increasing direct accessibility between the west and continental Europe, avoiding likely UK customs delays post-Brexit; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (3 Oct 2017)

Niall Collins: 95. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her Department has examined empowering the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission to issue civil fines for anti-competitive practices; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41477/17]

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2017)

Niall Collins: ...of access for marginalised and vulnerable people with regard to the civil arm of the free legal aid scheme. Criminal free legal aid is absolutely dominant in budget terms and it is an area we must examine fundamentally. There are battered spouses and people coming from other abusive relationships who need to seek redress or support in the courts but they cannot because when they apply...

Protection of Employees (Collective Redundancies) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Jun 2017)

Niall Collins: ...as we saw with Clerys. It would apply where there are suggestions an employer is insolvent and it incorporates some of the suggestions of the Duffy-Cahill report. That Government-commissioned report examined the controversial closure of Clerys in 2015, recommending legislative changes aimed at giving better protection to employees affected by insolvency cases, including tactical...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regional Development Initiatives (29 Jun 2017)

Niall Collins: ...To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding the principle in the confidence and supply agreement to prioritise regional development across all policy areas and to examine all options for increased credit availability. [30765/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Company Law (20 Jun 2017)

Niall Collins: 187. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding the company law review group’s progress to date regarding examining existing legislation and reporting back with recommendations to safeguard a company’s employees and unsecured creditors in the case of insolvencies; when this report will be completed; and if she will provide an overview of the...

Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement: Statements (25 May 2017)

Niall Collins: ...in terms of checks and balances but, on the other, they are providing some other accountancy service in another section of the business. They are compromised, which is something that we need to examine. What will be the consequences for EY of its botched auditing of Anglo Irish Bank?

Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement: Statements (25 May 2017)

Niall Collins: ...because the free legal aid budget is being drained by cases such as the FitzPatrick prosecution. The expansion of the terms of reference of the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland to allow it to examine the functioning of the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement needs to be considered. The issue of resources needs to be addressed. During Fine Gael's time in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (23 Mar 2017)

Niall Collins: 1. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will ensure the continuation of the Succeed in Ireland programme before the result of the current review has been published and examined; if not, the reason; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14746/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: ConnectIreland's 'Succeed in Ireland' Programme: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Niall Collins: ...powers of compellability, we should ask the Committee of Public Accounts, which would obviously have an overlapping role in this regard because the organisations are funded by the Exchequer, to examine the situation. The Committee of Public Accounts might be able to exercise its powers of compellability. This is simply not good enough.

Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)

Niall Collins: ...where it can be demonstrated that collective bargaining does not exist in a company, a group of workers have a right to a hearing at the Labour Court where they can be represented by a trade union and have their case examined. In these cases, legislation allows for the Labour Court to make a determination in a dispute, which can then be enforced by way of a Circuit Court order. ...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (27 Sep 2016)

Niall Collins: 146. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has examined incentivising small businesses and employers to take on apprentices in an approved programme via an income tax credit similar to the apprenticeship job creation tax credit scheme currently operating in Canada; the approximate cost of this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26440/16]