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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Ministerial Dialogue (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 827. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the engagement he has had with the Philomena project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31463/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: I thank the representatives of Dublin City Council for attending. I seek a clarification before I start asking questions. Are the representatives or have they ever been members of the GAA?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: What about Mr. Keegan?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: What about Mr. Downey?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: I presume that Mr. Keogan was party to the letter, the part of which relating to our membership or otherwise of the GAA Mr. Keegan has withdrawn, that was sent to committee members last week. Did he know that it was being sent?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: He has withdrawn the part in question. Other members found it objectionable, but I found it insulting that a CEO of a local authority would cast an aspersion on us by virtue of the fact that some of us are members of the GAA. It smacks of everything that is bad about this entire situation. Other members have merely called Mr. Keegan's judgment into question for sending the letter, but he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Did Mr. Keegan ask Dublin City Council's councillors to absent themselves from last week's council meeting if they were also members of the GAA?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Why not? Did Mr. Keegan write to them in advance and ask whether they had a conflict of interest?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Dublin City Council held a meeting last week at which its members presumably put to Mr. Keegan questions similar to ours. He did not ask them whether they had conflicts of interest by virtue of being supporters or members of the GAA, yet it is okay for him to ask that of Members of the Oireachtas. This relates to one of my concerns with this situation, in that it has been shambolic from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: It was something that the council would consider.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: To even suggest that it would be considered is ludicrous. Mr. Keegan also stated that five concerts would have been unprecedented. Given the experience of events at Croke Park, would four consecutive nights, each entailing 80,000 people, not have been regarded as unprecedented? At what point would it have become unprecedented? In terms of declarations of interest, Mr. Keegan stated that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Mr. Keegan said that while there would still only be three concerts, there would be five separate audiences according to the submission which was made later and that this would have allowed everyone who bought a ticket to go to a concert on Friday, Saturday or Sunday. When was that taken off the table?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Is that even though it was being considered by the local authority?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: In his earlier submission, Mr. Keegan said "Under the proposal the city council would consider an updated event management plan to be submitted in accordance with the licence whereby three concerts would proceed but the Sunday and Saturday concerts would start earlier". At some stage, he must have thought it was a good idea.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: At no stage, did Mr. Keegan say to Peter Aiken "This is a bad idea".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: 25 Years of Independent Broadcasting: Independent Broadcasters of Ireland (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: I welcome the representatives of the independent broadcasters. All of the members present are from rural areas, which is no coincidence because of the service offered outside Dublin, especially in rural counties. I remarked on my local commercial station this morning that, prior to 1988, the only voices one heard on radio were Dublin voices. Until that year, one would certainly not have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: 25 Years of Independent Broadcasting: Independent Broadcasters of Ireland (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: How many members of our guests' organisation would buy into such a fund if it became available?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: 25 Years of Independent Broadcasting: Independent Broadcasters of Ireland (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Will it cover the Connacht final?

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Special Protection Areas Designation (16 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 22. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the discussions planned with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and representatives of the farming organisations in relation to ongoing issues being encountered by landowners and farmers in maintaining the habitat of the hen harrier; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31153/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (16 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 27. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on her plans for the commemoration of the 1916 Rising; the level of engagement her Department has had with the families of those who participated in the Rising; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31154/14]