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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Appeals (6 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 343. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an appeal of single farm payment for 2013 in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20081/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications (6 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 371. To ask the Minister for Health the assistance that will be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Wexford in relation to the urgent funding needed under the nursing homes support package; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20022/14]

Children First Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill. It does what it says on the tin and puts children first. It is long overdue. Having listened to the debate this evening and since the Minister introduced the legislation, I note that others have contextualised the Bill in terms of where the country has come from. It is no harm to do that. Every morning every Member walks in past the...

Children First Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: With regard to mandated persons, teachers are hugely important as a cog in the wheel. They are cheek by jowl with children on a daily basis and they have an important role to play, but they need to be supported, resourced and trained. They need to be sensitive. When the heads of the Bill were being examined, some of the contributors at the committee meeting were reluctant to suggest...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: I welcome the delegation from Bus Éireann. As Deputy Coffey has said, in reference to a previous speaker, nobody in this committee has a monopoly in terms of concern or in terms of allegations made or which are in the public arena. To suggest otherwise is disingenuous to the committee and to the member who made it. Discussions that are held in private should be private but, obviously,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: My question was why those savings had not been made earlier. Why did the economy have to collapse before the Department of Education and Skills insisted that savings were made? Why were these efficiencies not insisted on all the time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: What is the cost of the service now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: What was the cost for 2012?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: When one takes the contribution of the families out of the equation is one dealing with €137 million?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Is it €151 million?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Even though Bus Éireann has increased the services over the five-year period by €25 million a year-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Have the €30 million savings achieved in 2008 been wiped away?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: The point I am trying to make is that in the statement it was said that the cost in 2008 was €162 million and that more than €30 million had been saved by Bus Éireann working in conjunction with the Department of Education and Skills. It seems to me that the cost should be €132 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: The €25 million has been passed on to the Department and the parents.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Essentially, the point I make is that there is no saving.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: It has taken me a long time to get a response. The Department of Education and Skills gave Bus Éireann its instructions in terms of the operation of the school bus service. Bus Éireann said it saved €30 million but it has not saved anything.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Where are they if the parents have taken up the slack?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: The statement is very clear. The cost of the service was €162 million in 2008 and Bus Éireann said more than €30 million has been saved. It was also said that the cost today is €149.7 million and there is a contribution by parents bringing the total cost to almost €160 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: There is no saving.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Would Mr. Nolan like to amend the statement to say that there is no saving of €30 million and that the cost of running the service today is the same as it was in 2008?