Results 101-120 of 2,965 for speaker:Robert Dowds
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Dec 2015)
Robert Dowds: I direct two questions to the Comptroller and Auditor General. I do not know the detail of what Deputy McDonald has been presented with but presumably if a whistleblower has been badly treated, the new legislation in that regard applies if matters were pressed in that way. I remember trying to press the Central Bank on credit unions and being very frustrated at the lack of answers. Given...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Dec 2015)
Robert Dowds: In terms of trying to find out who examines and regulates the Central Bank, given that it is such an important institution, it would be interesting to know.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Dec 2015)
Robert Dowds: If either examination points to a problem, what happens after that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Dec 2015)
Robert Dowds: Is there an obligation on the Central Bank to respond?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Dec 2015)
Robert Dowds: I do not just mean "respond" in terms of writing a letter back to the Comptroller and Auditor General.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Dec 2015)
Robert Dowds: Yes.
- Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)
Robert Dowds: What about all the reports that Deputy Martin commissioned?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2015)
Robert Dowds: I welcome our guests. Will they outline the advantages and disadvantages of AHBs? My suspicion is that tenants will not be able to purchase, which would be a disadvantage, but I would be interested in our guests' views. How will the housing assistance payment, HAP, operate in respect of AHBs? Will our guests say something more about their organisations' sources of finance? The main one...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2015)
Robert Dowds: Therefore, it is easier for them to go back to work which is part of the intention of HFA.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2015)
Robert Dowds: There will be no disadvantage, therefore, for somebody in similar housing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2015)
Robert Dowds: Will that loan be paid back from what the Housing Agency has received in rents?
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Civil Aviation Regulation (8 Dec 2015)
Robert Dowds: 621. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the law on the use of drones by private citizens. [44085/15]
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Robert Dowds: Fianna Fáil populism.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Robert Dowds: Typical Fianna Fáil populism.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Robert Dowds: It is an election speech.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Robert Dowds: The Deputy asked that five minutes ago.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Robert Dowds: This has gone on for five minutes.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Robert Dowds: He went totally off then.
- Rent Certainty and Prevention of Homelessness Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Dec 2015)
Robert Dowds: In speaking in this debate, I recognise that housing and the issues around it are the most pressing issues that face us. In this regard, I very much regret the absence of Fianna Fáil from this Chamber because many of the problems we have go back to the time when it was in government. As Deputy Boyd Barrett was speaking, I became increasingly irritated because I am so aware of the...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Robert Dowds: Go before the Committee of Public Accounts on this.