Results 601-620 of 1,321 for speaker:Áine Collins

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 May 2014)

Áine Collins: If a private operator tenders for a public contract from a State organisation and gets it, does our power allow us to investigate that company?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 May 2014)

Áine Collins: I appreciate that and I understand where we are going with Rehab and the CRC but my question was on a bigger scale. Does our remit allow us to investigate where money has been spent by a Department and the contract has been tendered out to a private individual or company? Can we then bring that individual or company in and ask them how they spent that money?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 May 2014)

Áine Collins: My question is whether we could extend that?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 May 2014)

Áine Collins: For example, I think there is something happening in one of the Westmeath LEADER companies today where there was-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 May 2014)

Áine Collins: It involved one of the Westmeath LEADER companies where €7 million was not allocated. Would it be within our remit to ask this company to come in?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (30 Apr 2014)

Áine Collins: 193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding funding for extra accommodation in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Cork. [19219/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (30 Apr 2014)

Áine Collins: 464. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm that a person who has received notification from a building society that their mortgage is unsustainable and their home must be sold, that in the event of these circumstances arising that a person is entitled to apply for their council social housing list. [18939/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Application (30 Apr 2014)

Áine Collins: 511. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government with regard to new building regulations, the process in place to allow existing long term practitioners to be certified by his Department in order that they can comply with new regulations. [19633/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tax Code (30 Apr 2014)

Áine Collins: 660. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of any tax incentives available to landowners leasing-renting their land for conacre. [19220/14]

Ambulance Service: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Apr 2014)

Áine Collins: I also welcome the opportunity to speak on this issue. Recently, alarmist headlines have been appearing in local newspapers. Deputy Moynihan has been saying that ambulance services in north Cork are a cause for serious concern. A HSE worker claimed that people will die as a result of these changes. These exaggerated claims are adding to people's concerns, particularly in rural areas....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Grants (16 Apr 2014)

Áine Collins: 146. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider introducing some form of grant aid for reconstitution of forestation (details supplied). [18210/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Issues (16 Apr 2014)

Áine Collins: 179. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding a response to a query regarding a hackney vehicle licence in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [18230/14]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Apr 2014)

Áine Collins: Under any other business as well, I should have mentioned the following on the work programme. Can we have an investigation into the tender process that the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport had for the vans on the road that are capturing penalty points violations? I understand there is an issue about the technology used and they now will not be able to process all of those issues.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Apr 2014)

Áine Collins: On the tender process, the evaluation of it, who approved it in the Department, etc.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Apr 2014)

Áine Collins: Perfect.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Apr 2014)

Áine Collins: I did not see it, apologies.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Apr 2014)

Áine Collins: When we ask for the information, would it be within our remit to find out who in the Department approved the expenditure?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Exemptions (1 Apr 2014)

Áine Collins: 156. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person who received a serious brain injury and did not receive compensation because the accident happened on his own property is not exempt from local property tax in the same way as someone who received a serious brain injury in an accident in which they received compensation. [15021/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting of Personnel (25 Mar 2014)

Áine Collins: 776. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when a charge is stuck out, if no reference to it will appear on a Garda vetting report (details supplied). [13606/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance (11 Mar 2014)

Áine Collins: 228. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there are plans to address the issue which has arisen from budget 2014, where persons who take up a Tús scheme, due to the €20 extra to help with costs, now find themselves in a higher PRSI contribution bracket, and are financially worse off for taking up the scheme. [11540/14]