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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Who in the college?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: If the systems were not fit for purpose over a five-year period, surely the management in the college was not fit for purpose either.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: That does not explain the period 2004 to 2009 nor does it explain why every other third level institute, many of whose names are included in the McCarthy report and had question marks hanging over them, is not in the situation in which the NCAD finds itself. That response does not explain the position.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Some of the smaller teacher training colleges do not have that structure.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: That does not take from the fact that what we are talking about here is the accounts. We are talking about the systems within the NCAD, its relationship with the HEA, and the HEA's relationship with the Department of Education and Skills, which have been an unmitigated disaster. Nothing was done over five years until the Comptroller and Auditor General decided enough was enough and...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements of the Higher Education Authority 2013
General Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Accountability and Governance on the National College of Art and Design (22 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I thank the Chairman.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Decentralisation Programme Expenditure (22 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 83. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 196 of 14 January 2015, if he will provide details of properties that were leased for the purposes of decentralisation during the period of 1997 to 2011, to which no agencies or personnel were assigned; the amount agreed to in respect of each lease; the annual cost of each; and if he will make a...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Agreements: Motion (21 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I appreciate the Minister said the development of the Canadian market is very important from an Irish point of view. In that context our national carrier especially in terms of the development of further transatlantic routes out of Dublin and Shannon is of huge importance to the economy. There has been much recent commentary on a possible sale of a Government stake in Aer Lingus. The...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Agreements: Motion (21 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: There is a fine big port in Foynes as well.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (21 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 48. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce minimum standards for the delivery of publicly funded private and public home care for elderly persons and vulnerable adults in their own homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2350/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Expenditure (21 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 60. To ask the Minister for Health the total Health Service Executive budget for food and catering; if the HSE has considered a single system for procurement of food and setting of menus in HSE-run hospitals and residences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2349/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (21 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 105. To ask the Minister for Finance the numbers of persons who availed of the artists exemption scheme in 2014; the amount of income to which the scheme related; the top ten earners who availed of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2904/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Grassland Sheep Scheme Payments (21 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 123. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Wexford has not received a grassland payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2924/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Applications (21 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 124. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Wexford has not received their suckler cow grant payment and single farm payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2925/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (21 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 156. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Wexford will receive an orthosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2923/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Wildlife Regulations (21 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 248. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to change or extend the dates for the cutting of hedgerows; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2926/15]

Junior Cycle Reform: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I am glad the Minister concluded her remarks by reminding certain Deputies about what they said in 2012. I sat through most of the debate to which she referred. The then Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Quinn, received considerable support and praise from Opposition Deputies for his proposals. Some of what these Deputies are now saying stands in stark contrast to what they were...

Junior Cycle Reform: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I presume those public servants will include people like me, who were trained as primary or secondary teachers, or clerical officers working in education or agricultural offices. These are people who are trying to rear families. I welcome the party opposite to the real world of politics, where it has a budget and is required to make ends meet, whether at national level or in the Northern...

Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: What about the HSE?

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Guidelines (20 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 139. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the introduction of protocols that would require political parties to put in place child protection policies in line with other voluntary organisations that have a youth element; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2126/15]