Results 441-460 of 1,321 for speaker:Áine Collins

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Áine Collins: Some were taken out, as I understand it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Áine Collins: Driving behaviour would have improved.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Áine Collins: How did we get this so wrong? The original cost of €11 million or so was meant to be collected in fixed-charge fees or penalty notices.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Áine Collins: I accept that but part of our job is to examine the costs.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Áine Collins: The original projection was €70 million and €4.6 million was brought in last year. It cost the Garda Síochána another €11 million not allocated in the original budget. It is an incredible variance and the figures are quite a distance from what they were supposed to be. How did that happen?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Áine Collins: Could we achieve the same objective now by putting in fixed cameras on roads where people know there are cameras?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Áine Collins: From a cost-benefit perspective, could the same result be achieved from a fixed camera? It would have just one initial cost.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Áine Collins: I presume that with technology and the quality of cameras improving, this might be an issue that can be examined in future.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Áine Collins: I thank Mr. Twomey. We are not where we would like to be with the processing of fixed-penalty fines. There are 70% of people who pay them upfront and do as they should but approximately 20% of people never get fined by the time the process is finished. There has been much talk about this and work done. My understanding is the Garda Síochána process these fines and take them as...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Áine Collins: Has the Garda considered that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Áine Collins: What is the status of the Schengen project and the major investigation management systems? They are in the 2012 accounts.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Áine Collins: What was the outcome?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Áine Collins: I welcome the acting Garda Commissioner and her team. On subhead 3, what was the reason for the 24% increase in the cost of telecommunications?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Áine Collins: Was that not foreseen?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Áine Collins: It seems quite excessive. On An Garda Síochána's GoSafe contract, while I appreciate the acting Garda Commissioner's remarks in regard to saving lives and understand how important this is to all of us, in terms of European comparators, driving behaviour, roads infrastructure and cars in Ireland have improved and, as such, we cannot be certain that the improvement in road deaths...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Áine Collins: It would appear from some of the figures provided that the GoSafe vans are detecting only one in 40 drivers as speeding, while the Garda Síochána vans are detecting higher numbers of people doing so.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Áine Collins: Am I correct in my reading of the information provided that it is proposed to add an additional 320 GoSafe zones?

Free Travel Pass: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2014)

Áine Collins: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the motion. The free travel scheme is equally important to rural and urban pensioners for carrying out everyday tasks. Last week, we spoke about the effects a sense of isolation can have on individuals, especially in rural areas. This applies especially to older people who have given so much to the country. Transport serves older people who, for one...

Free Travel Pass: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2014)

Áine Collins: On each occasion, Fine Gael and the Labour Party took hard decisions in the national interest to restore the economy to a state where it can pay for badly needed social services like free travel. When will Fianna Fáil disclose that, in its successful efforts to buy its way into power in three successive general elections, it destroyed the lives of thousands of people, forcing hundreds...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Job Creation and Innovation: Startup Ireland (8 Jul 2014)

Áine Collins: I agree totally that the incubation space has to be available in a city. We tried it in a country location and it did not work. One needs to have human and other resources. Rates are an issue. The rates commission, not the council, sets the rates. We are changing this and there is legislation coming through in that regard. Once the council can make the decision, it can probably look at...