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Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance Review (17 Feb 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 362. To ask the Minister for Health if a person in receipt of half-rate mobility allowance can have the rate increased (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6805/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Supply (17 Feb 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 375. To ask the Minister for Health the Health Service Executive's plans to include the new drug, Regorasenib Stivarg,a from a pharmaceutical company (details supplied), for inclusion in the community drug scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6903/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Administration (17 Feb 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 392. To ask the Minister for Health if general practitioners can impose a charge of €20, on medical card patients, to provide a script for vital medication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7047/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Grant Payments (17 Feb 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 413. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will confirm that he has approved a grant of €250,000 to a sports club (details supplied) in New York; the terms of this grant; if it is funded from current or capital expenditure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6912/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Grant Payments (17 Feb 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 416. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a legal charge will be required on a sports club (details supplied) in New York, to safeguard the taxpayers' grant-aid of €250,000, as would be required for a similar grant award to a sports club here; and the way this might be registered and enforced, if required. [6915/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Grant Payments (17 Feb 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 417. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the verification and inspection process he has put in place to ensure the integrity of the grant award of €250,000 to a sports club (details supplied) in New York. [6916/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Grant Payments (17 Feb 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 414. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of funds available to his Department in 2014 and allocated for 2015, to grant aid sports clubs based outside Ireland. [6913/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Grant Payments (17 Feb 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 415. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if advertisements were placed, inviting sporting clubs based outside Ireland to apply for grant-aid for the development of their sporting facilities; if he will confirm where these advertisements were placed; the number of applications received; the criteria used to adjudicate on these applications; the total number of successful...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tribunals of Inquiry Reports (17 Feb 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 476. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of recent announcements that the planning tribunal was withdrawing all findings of obstruction and nonco-operation by persons who appeared before the tribunal, the level of expenses that will now become payable to the legal representatives of each of these persons; the subsequent effect on the total expenditure...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tribunals of Inquiry Expenditure (17 Feb 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 477. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total expenditure on the legal team acting for the planning tribunal; and in view of the findings of this tribunal now having been withdrawn with huge additional implications for the costs to the tax payer, if he will seek to recoup all or at least some of this additional money from the legal team. [6834/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Wildlife Regulations (17 Feb 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 547. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if members of the Irish Farmers Association with designated lands have been, or will be, part of the body that will take part in the threat response plan, initiated by her Department, under section 39 of Statutory Instrument No. 477 of 2011; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6844/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I thank Mr. Walsh and Mr. Griffin for appearing before the committee. I refer back to the cast iron embedded in concrete guarantee because there is still an unanswered question. The committee's narrative will be that Shannon and Cork airports continue to face a question mark over connectivity. For the benefit of trying to push this forward, could Mr. Walsh give a commitment that this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: The concern comes from the last time, when 74% was sold and Aer Lingus hightailed it out of Shannon and went to Belfast. I know the reasons but that is the concern.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: For what length of time?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Feb 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: How widespread is this issue concerning foundations among the other universities and third level colleges that come under the remit of the Comptroller and Auditor General's office?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Feb 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Therefore, the potential problem that is being unearthed here could be an issue in other third level institutions as well.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Feb 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Is it the Comptroller and Auditor General's intention to look into that?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Feb 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: In the general thrust of looking at foundations the Comptroller and Auditor General has no way of knowing that money that is given by benevolent sources to a foundation does not find its way in the reverse direction back into the university in terms of current expenditure or, God forbid, top-ups or anything like that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I welcome the representatives from Enterprise Ireland and the IDA. I go back to an initial comment by Deputy John Perry at the start. It is only a comment to Ms Julie Sinnamon. I would certainly not want the message to go out from this committee that I had any difficulty with an investment of €13,000 to create a job that would restore somebody's dignity and give them a sense of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: In Mr. Shanahan's experience of dealing with companies overseas, is it a fair assessment to say it would it be a hard sell to attract investment to Ireland on the back of an increase of employers' PRSI?