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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Garda Vetting of Personnel (11 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 143. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide details of correspondence between his Department and the Departments of Education and Skills and Health on the number of people working with children and employed by those Departments who have yet to be Garda vetted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47575/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Garda Vetting of Personnel (11 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details in tabular form by county of the numbers of teachers, special needs assistants and support staff who have not been Garda vetted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47576/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Television Licences Data (11 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 202. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide details in tabular form by county for 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014 of the number of persons who have been prosecuted for non-payment of the television licence. [47578/14]

Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety (10 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: I acknowledge the presence of the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport and the discussions I have had with him on this matter. The reply from the Minister of State is fine in that it tells me everything I know about the speed detection system but that is not what I asked. I refer to information from the Department. In 2012, 111 cases were thrown out at Naas District Court. This has...

Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety (10 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Thank you, a Cheann Comhairle, for allowing this Topical Issue matter to go forward because it is very topical and it covers two Departments, namely, Justice and Equality, and Transport, Tourism and Sport. Everyone is singing from the one hymn sheet, in the sense that we all believe that anything which could be done to make roads safer is a good thing. There is no doubt in the recent past...

Order of Business (10 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Deputy Calleary would want to brush up on his Irish.

Order of Business (10 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: In the light of the programme last night detailing events in County Mayo, will the Taoiseach indicate when the Health Act 2007 (amendment) Bill, which will bring the provision of home care, whether privately or publicly funded, under the remit of the Health Information and Quality Authority, will be published? Is it possible that publication might be expedited, particularly in view of the...

Appointment of Minister of State (10 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Remember insulation aid? Fianna Fáil got rid of that.

Order of Business (10 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Sinn Féin might have another "Sit-in Thursday" tomorrow.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: National Postcode System: (Resumed) Nightline (10 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Mr. Tuohy mentioned Ballymacarbry and Clonmel in his initial contribution. I have a huge issue in south and east Limerick with postal addresses in Charleville in county Cork and Tipperary, so I know exactly what he is talking about. One of his competitors recently stopped me in the street while I was in the village of Athea in west Limerick with an address that is practically down beside the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: National Postcode System: (Resumed) Nightline (10 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: In relation to Mr. Tuohy's own business, a capital investment will be required, without knowing the amount. Is this something the industry as a whole can absorb? It must obviously invest in its own technologies in order to avail of the code system. Will it impact adversely on the sector?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Court Recommendations (10 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 27. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to put a mechanism in place to implement the Labour Court recommendation of 2008 in regard to an agreed pension scheme proviso for community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42006/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Payments (10 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 76. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a timeframe as to when a single farm payment and a disadvantaged area payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47365/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Penalty Points System (10 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 114. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos 494 of 26 November, 2013 and No. 558 of 18 February 2014 if the Garda authorities have now finalised a reply; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47464/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (10 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding funding for the rental of temporary accommodation in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47491/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (10 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 170. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the provisions in place to ensure a person who is awaiting a national car test, which was booked on 16 November 2014 but will not be taken until 30 January 2015 due to a backlog, is not issued penalty points considering the persons NCT certificate is due to expire on 1 January 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47451/14]

Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Do you not realise, a Cheann Comhairle, it is a county council meeting?

Confidence in Taoiseach and Government: Motion (9 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: I express my confidence in the Taoiseach and Government. I welcome Deputy Colreavy back to the House. He was clearly not fit to be in the chorus given his party's new found interest in music. We must remember that the party which started this debate defines a wealthy person in a country that is recovering as a teacher on a salary of €35,000 or €40,000. What does Sinn...

Confidence in Taoiseach and Government: Motion (9 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: In the case of a teacher who is married to a small farmer in west Limerick who owns a few heifers, it also has a wealth tax in store. This tax may generate €40,000 or €50,000 from bad or marginal land in my part of the country over the lifetime of a Sinn Féin Government. Deputy Colreavy is in an awful hurry to have an election.

Confidence in Taoiseach and Government: Motion (9 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: I challenge you to tell farmers in Carrick-on-Shannon, Mohill, Sligo and other parts of the west that your party plans to tax their land and the worse the land, the more you will tax it. Your spokesperson on agriculture-----