Results 421-440 of 1,321 for speaker:Áine Collins
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Áine Collins: Can the witnesses supply a breakdown of the details of the funding that is being made from private sources and from what sources? Is funding from shops, car parks or donations sponsoring these allowances?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Áine Collins: Does the HSE intend to request that information from the agencies?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Áine Collins: I would have thought the HR process was to identify whether they were entitled to it but as for the origins of the money, I would have thought that would be part of the audit process.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Áine Collins: However, in respect of private sources, no distinction was made as to whether the money came from income generated on the premises, such as a shop or a car park, as opposed to a donation .
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Áine Collins: I think it would be of interest to the public to know where the money came from in respect of the different agencies, especially those people who are making contributions to specific agencies.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Áine Collins: Consequently, I would appreciate it were that information requested of them. Are some of these allowances being called salary? Some apparently are motor allowances. Are some of them deemed to be salary or to be bonuses? Is it known how they are being treated and why? If they were deemed to be bonuses, is there a sample as to what such bonuses were related?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Áine Collins: What actions are being taken in respect of the Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA, report on Tallaght hospital? Is that additional remuneration, which I understand to be €150,000, still being paid?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Áine Collins: Is action being taken about that payment in respect of the person who was being paid? Was it appropriate or was it approved?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Áine Collins: How long more do the witnesses think it will take before this situation is resolved and there will be transparency in all section 38 institutions? How long before people receive their fair pay to which they are entitled?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Áine Collins: When looking at self-declaration, do the witnesses not think it might be advisable to send out an audit team? As this pertains to 44 agencies, it would not take a huge number of staff members to conduct such audits.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Áine Collins: I encourage the HSE to ascertain, as quickly as possible, whether it can get that audit out there because the public requires transparency in this regard. If they are self-regulating, that could take a lot of time and one will never know for sure.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Áine Collins: Okay. I thank Mr. O'Brien.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Constitutional Amendments (28 Nov 2013)
Áine Collins: 120. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the need to hold a referendum in relation to legislation to allow same sex marriage. [51173/13]
- 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,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Initiatives: Discussion with ConnectIreland (3 Dec 2013)
Áine Collins: I welcome Mr. Clune and Mr. McLoughlin. I do not really have any questions, save to say it is a fantastic idea. I congratulate the witnesses. I wish we had more people like them in Ireland. The positive message that comes from this is fantastic. It is a great idea to work with some of the communities. We have serious issues in Ireland with philanthropy, where it is going and where new...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Initiatives: Discussion with ConnectIreland (3 Dec 2013)
Áine Collins: The Chairman does not need it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Science Foundation Ireland: Discussion with Chairperson Designate (3 Dec 2013)
Áine Collins: Ms Riordan and her colleagues are very welcome. I am most encouraged from what I have heard from her. The experience she outlined is fantastic. I thank her for taking up the position. Science, research and innovation, commercialisation, entrepreneurship and building companies is what we must focus on if we are to solve the unemployment problem. We need strong leadership. We need people...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Science Foundation Ireland: Discussion with Chairperson Designate (3 Dec 2013)
Áine Collins: Everyone else in Europe is doing it. I am not talking about not for profit organisations per se. I am talking about people who are into research and innovation coming together with big multinational companies, small companies and PhD students but instead of it being in a university environment, it is outside of that framework. They set up a way of doing that on a statutory basis to handle...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Science Foundation Ireland: Discussion with Chairperson Designate (3 Dec 2013)
Áine Collins: They are happening already but there is more bureaucracy involved because they have to attach themselves, for the sake of bureaucracy, to a university to draw down the money. If we are serious about solving the problem, we should have collaborations that are working. We should be open to that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Science Foundation Ireland: Discussion with Chairperson Designate (3 Dec 2013)
Áine Collins: Yes.