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Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: If a company goes into liquidation, closes down or whatever, and there are grant aid arrangements or similar, does IDA Ireland recover that? Is it on a percentage basis per annum? If a company has a ten-year programme but goes bust after five years, is that money lost to IDA Ireland? I presume the next instalment would not be paid as the company would be gone.

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: On the property portfolio that is left, is IDA Ireland mostly renting the properties or does it sell the properties to companies that are coming here? Do they buy the properties outright or is the property leased? If the company goes into liquidation, what happens the properties? Who owns them afterwards?

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Does IDA Ireland get the property back? Say if the company has the property bought, does it sell it or does the property revert back to IDA Ireland? Has IDA Ireland a hold on such property?

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Of course, we are all local. I am from the south east, like Deputy Cullinane. I am from Kilkenny and he is from Waterford. We work together. We have a great facility in Belview Port, which I know is high in IDA Ireland's ranking. With Brexit coming and so on, the future of Belview Port looks rosy. We have land and Kilkenny County Council is on board. We have the services there, we have...

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: So we are losing out in the south east because we do not have those graduates being educated in the region.

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: We can all nitpick about business but counties Kilkenny and Carlow seem to be behind in terms of jobs created. Talking personally, in the figures I see 802 for Carlow and 762 for Kilkenny. Meanwhile Tipperary has 3,040, Waterford has 6,000 - which I do not begrudge them - and Wexford has 2,600. We seem to be the poor relation there. Is there any reason for that? Have we landbanks in...

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I was going to ask about that. Have we any advanced technology buildings in Carlow-Kilkenny? I want to ask Ms Buckley about Kilkenny too because that it where I am from.

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Dublin is overheating and accommodation or housing has been mentioned already. Will IDA Ireland be looking more closely at the south east, which is only an hour and half down the motorway? As I stated, we have connectivity so will IDA Ireland look to bring more people out of Dublin so as to have a balanced regional development? We have the infrastructure in place.

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: The Chairman knew that.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (10 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 217. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on whether the process by which the Prison Service is offering six month contracts to retired former personnel under 60 years of age is cost effective or counter productive to the process of hiring of new recruits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42875/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Palliative Care Facilities (10 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 382. To ask the Minister for Health if a submission seeking funding for palliative care rooms within the replacement ward accommodation under phase two of the current developments at Saint Luke's Hospital in Kilkenny has been submitted in conjunction with a charity (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42891/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Applications (10 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 407. To ask the Minister for Health when FreeStyle Libre will be made available on the GMS and long-term illness card; if that availability will not be restricted only to persons with type 1 diabetes but will be made available to all persons on multi-daily insulin injections based on clinical need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42206/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Status (11 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 41. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the progress of general safety works and the appointment of design consultant for the proposed overbridge on the Piltown bypass on the N24; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41988/17]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: What is the cause of the overrun?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I have a query about the Prison Service in general. I do not know the remit of this committee in this regard but I have received many complaints from prison officers about the system that is in place, especially around the rehiring of retired prison officers and not hiring new prison officers. I do not know if this committee has a remit in this area. The prison officers are not happy with...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Is this the committee to bring that concern?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Yes, that is exactly what it is about.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I will write a letter to the Chairman on it.

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I welcome the TII officials and I compliment them on all their ongoing work on modernising the road network. Their predecessors in the NRA did fantastic work on the main arteries to our cities. Funding is the main problem and if we had enough money, there would be roads everywhere. I would like to go back to PPPs. Is it true that where traffic volume predictions are not achieved such as...

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: So they carry the can.