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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (8 Apr 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if in relation to teachers pay scales, his position where a primary teacher that was made permanent in 2008 and is teaching in one part of the country and wants to move home to another part of the country and if they were to give up their permanent position and move home and take up a new job the difference in their permanency entitlements;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (8 Apr 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of the number of children by county currently waiting for places in Redhill House, Patrickswell, County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16234/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (8 Apr 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the locations and numbers of special classes for children with ASD in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16235/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Licence Applications (8 Apr 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 357. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form by county, the number of applications that are with his Department for applications for lease, licence or permission under the Foreshore Act 1933; the number of those applications over six and 12 months; the maximum waiting time for each county; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Amendments (8 Apr 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 379. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to make changes to the building regulations to ensure carbon monoxide alarms are put in all new buildings; if such a change could be made; and if same would require a statutory instrument or a Bill. [16305/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Milk Quota Applications (8 Apr 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 485. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is in receipt of an application for milk quota reserve in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16105/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services Provision (8 Apr 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 611. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Wexford has not been referred for orthodontic services; the procedure during a routine appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16325/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Research (8 Apr 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 612. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding allocated by Government bodies annually for the purposes of research for childhood leukaemia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16348/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Appeals (8 Apr 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 621. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card appeal application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16378/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (9 Apr 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 147. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures he has taken since taking office to protect the price of beef for the farming community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16911/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Developments in Renewable Energy Technologies and Practices: SEAI (9 Apr 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: I welcome the representatives from SEAI. Returning to the two previous contributions, one aspect absent here is a bit of honesty about the opening of the interconnector between Ireland and Britain. A person plugging in his or her kettle in Manorhamilton in County Leitrim could be just as easily using energy that is produced from a nuclear reactor in Sellafield or will be using energy from a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Developments in Renewable Energy Technologies and Practices: SEAI (9 Apr 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: My question was how long the wind turbine needs to work at maximum output before it recovers the energy invested in its construction. It is not a short period.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Developments in Renewable Energy Technologies and Practices: SEAI (9 Apr 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: While I accept that SEAI needs to capture data, if I do not sell a bale of briquettes it is not capturing that data. However it insists that somebody provides an meter point reference number, MPRN, by virtue of the fact that the retailer sells coal. It is a bit bonkers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Developments in Renewable Energy Technologies and Practices: SEAI (9 Apr 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Is there no accreditation of the work that is done?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Developments in Renewable Energy Technologies and Practices: SEAI (9 Apr 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: What proportion?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Waterways Issues (10 Apr 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 14. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 14 of 26 February 2014, his views on that based on the information provided in his reply where forty four bodies have roles in relation to the maintenance and management of the River Shannon, that an examination should take place to review the effectiveness of the current management and governance...

Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy should talk to his brother about that.

Order of Business (15 Apr 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: What progress has been made in respect of the State airports (Shannon group) Bill, which is the final cog in the wheel in the context of granting independence? I ask this in view of the fact that Shannon Development owns a significant land bank across the mid-west.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regional Development (15 Apr 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 111. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if consideration will be given to the development of asset inventories and matrices for towns across the country as a support and marketing tool to encourage inward investment into regional towns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17307/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (15 Apr 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 170. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce a levy on bank drafts issued by the various banks in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17439/14]