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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: DART Underground and Expansion Projects: National Transport Authority (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I want to know what the NTA is doing about this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: DART Underground and Expansion Projects: National Transport Authority (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Out of how many applications?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: DART Underground and Expansion Projects: National Transport Authority (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: That is what I meant.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: DART Underground and Expansion Projects: National Transport Authority (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I have been raising this issue for the past four years. Is it fair to ask somebody who applies for a hackney licence in Mitchelstown where the post office in Bantry is?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: DART Underground and Expansion Projects: National Transport Authority (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I will ask the question again. Is it fair that a hackney driver in Mitchelstown who will cover parts of counties Limerick and Tipperary and north east Cork should be expected to know where the post office in Bantry is, given that it is as far away from Mitchelstown as O'Connell Street in Dublin?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: DART Underground and Expansion Projects: National Transport Authority (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Therefore, it does not matter that he or she can drive the hackney in County Limerick and County Tipperary. He or she does not need to know anything about Kilfinane, Cahir, Skeheenarinky or Kilbehenny which he or she will service. The NTA is happy that he or she does not have to know the area he or she is servicing, but he or she has to know about an area almost 200 miles away. If he or...

Finance Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I wish to draw attention to the amateur theatrics we had here less than an hour ago and to the false indignation and so-called concern in regard to the Finance Bill and the time allocated for this debate. Neither the Sinn Féin nor Fianna Fáil spokespersons on finance, nor anyone from either party is present now. They will come in and huff and puff about the level of debate on this...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: She definitely will not come in then.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Could the Comptroller and Auditor General clarify where the college stands now on the 2015 work in terms of governance, oversight and record keeping? Has there been substantial change there?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Is the Comptroller and Auditor General happy that the 2015 accounts will be presented in 2016 along with the 2012, 2013 and 2014 accounts?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: How long, in your estimation, will it be before the college is up to speed and running a normal set of accounts?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Is that from an audit statement point of view?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Which will probably be received in 2017.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Chairman will be here then, or he might be Minister for Education and Skills.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I was missing for the last meeting. Is any update on the issue with regard to the University of Limerick which was raised at the committee previously? I asked this question before, but it might have been dealt with. When the representatives from NAMA were here they gave us a figure for the number of social housing units that were rejected by local authorities in Dublin and other areas of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Yes, I see it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: That shows house completions rather than-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: It was suggested here at the meeting that we ask the local authorities in question the reasons the houses were refused.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I ask the Chairman to outline the position on the University of Limerick issue.