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Leaders' Questions (13 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: That man is sitting beside Deputy Flanagan. He should talk to Deputy Wallace about that. The vineyards get single farm payments.

Order of Business (13 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: When will the promised maritime area and foreshore (amendment) Bill come before the House? More than 240 applications have been made for foreshore licences, some of which take up to five years to be determined. As the Taoiseach is aware, many of these applications involve job creation measures for coastal communities and ports.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (13 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 219. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding exemption from capital gains tax (details supplied). [21504/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing Appeals Mechanism (13 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a status update on a staff appeal application in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Limerick to maintain the third teaching post for the next school year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21176/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (13 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a determination will issue on an appeal against the decision not to approve sufficient funding to equip two new classrooms at a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21453/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Applications (13 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reconsider a decision in an application under the summer works scheme which is now under appeal in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21460/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (13 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 394. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will reverse the decision to reduce rent supplement to families who are experiencing great difficulty while on council waiting lists and cannot afford to meet the increasing rents being imposed by landlords, which is resulting in families being accommodated in hotels at very high cost to the State. [21415/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Retirement Scheme Applications (13 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 508. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a person (details supplied) in County Wexford who has participated in ERS 2 scheme and now finds that they cannot establish allocation rights in view of changes being introduced under the new EU Common Agricultural Policy be given a situation of force majure, that is, lease to run its course then entitlements returned to them if...

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: They have gone very quiet.

Topical Issue Debate: Taxi Regulations (14 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting the matter of the industry knowledge test for small public service vehicles for discussion. I regret I have had to raise it as a Topical Issues matter but I have already raised it umpteen times through parliamentary questions, as well as at the Oireachtas transport committee, but the replies have been wholly unsatisfactory. This is a significant...

Topical Issue Debate: Taxi Regulations (14 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: It might be far more important for an applicant from the Minister’s area to know about O’Brien’s Bridge or Ardnacrusha, County Clare, or Montpelier, County Limerick, than it would be to know about places in south Tipperary that he or she will never service. There is a hands-over-the-ears mentality in the NTA. It does not understand there are jobs being put at stake....

Topical Issue Debate: Taxi Regulations (14 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Invariably the test is designed for failure. I accept a rural hackney licence has been brought in but the reason for that is because the NTA will simply not change the knowledge test to allow a person to be tested on the area in which they cover rather than the overall county from which they come.

Topical Issue Debate: Taxi Regulations (14 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: I accept there needs to be a knowledge test and I should have said so at the outset. There needs to be a knowledge test and there needs to be standards. I also accept that the Minister of State's overall role is in policy. One of the policy statements that could be made by the Department is that the test the NTA is imposing should reflect the area in which the person is expected to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (14 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 99. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Wexford is being pursued for a jobseeker's allowance overpayment when the error was on the part of the social welfare officials; if the overpayment can be cancelled at this time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21657/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Grassland Sheep Scheme Payments (14 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 141. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the grassland sheep payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; when payment will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21673/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (14 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 175. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card review in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21646/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Mountain Rescue Services: Mountain Rescue Ireland (14 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Anyone who watches the RTE programme on emergency and rescue services will probably get a better insight into the work of mountain rescue. I am not from a mountainous county but we have low uplands, in Ballyhoura and Mullaghareirk. In the area, there is a response organisation. Following a missing young person case a number of years ago in the Abbeyfeale area, there came about the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Mountain Rescue Services: Mountain Rescue Ireland (14 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Fierce hardy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Mountain Rescue Services: Mountain Rescue Ireland (14 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: On Sunday night, I was watching a preview of the programme that is to be aired next week. It showed the helicopter airlifting somebody from Ballhoura. The area has a very good reputation. My point was not necessarily on the mountain bike trails but on people entering low uplands with bogs, bog holes and very soft conditions underfoot. People go off the trail and get lost and become...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Mountain Rescue Services: Mountain Rescue Ireland (14 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Given the previous contributions, would it be fair to say that there is no overall national umbrella structure for all the search and rescue people? Is there any one point of contact at Government level?