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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Better Energy Homes Scheme Administration (11 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 551. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the better energy homes grant scheme; his plans for the scheme post 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42977/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Road Safety Authority: Chairperson Designate (11 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: I congratulate Ms O'Donnell and wish her well in her role. I also compliment her predecessor. With the guidance of the Chairman, I would like to see a full relationship between the chairman of the RSA and the committee. It is beneficial that the chairman comes before the committee on a regular basis. While we are talking about the matter of road fatalities, in my constituency a man was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Road Safety Authority: Chairperson Designate (11 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: The point is that the Garda is being challenged and the RSA should have a naming and shaming role with regard to local authorities which are failing in their duties. We know some of them. One can get lost on some roads in this country not for the want of signs but because of the size of potholes. Deputy McEntee's county would be an example of somewhere with a serious problem in that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Road Safety Authority: Chairperson Designate (11 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: It has now gone up to three.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Road Safety Authority: Chairperson Designate (11 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: It does.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Road Safety Authority: Chairperson Designate (11 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: We have indeed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Road Safety Authority: Chairperson Designate (11 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: I wish to follow on from matters raised by Senator Brennan. What does Ms O'Donnell think of the fact that the number of penalty points for speeding offences has increased from two to three? A driver who accumulates 12 penalty points is off the road. Anecdotally, I have been told that there are locations in towns and villages across the country where speed detection is perceived to be an...

Other Questions: Food Exports (12 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 8. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the situation regarding EU exports to Russia; the response of the EU to assist those affected producers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42797/14]

Other Questions: Food Exports (12 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: My question relates to the impact the ban on EU exports to Russia, the second largest market for EU produce, is having in Ireland and across the EU. The Minister might use the opportunity to update Members on any discussion between the EU and Russia or any bilateral discussions between Ireland and Russia on the matter.

Other Questions: Food Exports (12 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Minister referred to storage aid and intervention. Will that be reviewed on an ongoing basis by the Agriculture and Fisheries Council? The decision to ban produce from the EU came as a result of what Russia did in Crimea. As that will not be resolved any time soon and certainly not before the end of the year, I presume the measures the Minister mentioned should be extended. I refer...

Other Questions: Food Exports (12 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: I encourage the Minister to keep storage aids and interventions under review because the issue between Russia and the EU will not be resolved before 31 December and there has to be ongoing support. I note his comments on the banking of fish quotas. I read the report on mackerel on his Department's website last week. Cheese is one product that has a particular exposure to this market....

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Deputy McDonald is asking the Taoiseach to do so.

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Station Refurbishment (12 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this issue which is topical in the context of the reforms which the Minister for Justice and Equality is seeking to introduce in the structure and management of An Garda Síochána. I believe the rank and file members of An Garda Síochána do exemplary work. I raise this issue on the basis of the many changes introduced by way of...

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Station Refurbishment (12 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: No, I was not. Some members of the media might accuse me of cronyism if I did not declare that we owned the property next door to the Garda Station. That being said, there is a dire need for investment in the property concerned. I have discussed this issue with the Minister of State in the Office of Public Works. As I said earlier, we need to examine new ways of approaching this issue. I...

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Station Refurbishment (12 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: I thank the Minister for her reply. I agree that the priority list needs to be very clear. In that context, public representatives like myself should be able to have an input into it in the same way we can make a case for a school in our constituencies which, as constituency representatives, we do all the time. However, I go back to the central point in regard to the current system of...

Allegations Regarding Sexual Abuse by Members of the Provisional Republican Movement: Statements (12 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: I welcome the opportunity to contribute. In the short time I have been a Member of the House, the past two hours have probably been the most difficult. There is a person in the Visitors Gallery who has been subjected to a type of violation, violence and disgusting abuse over a period that none of us can appreciate. I certainly cannot. In recognising our lack of appreciation of what she...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Directives (12 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 27. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of the discussions that he has had with the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in relation to those landowners whose lands have been designated for the protection of the hen harrier habitat; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42796/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (12 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 97. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of recent court proceedings her plans to make amendments to existing procedures to allow staff of Go Safe to be in a position to provide evidence on behalf of gardaí; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43426/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (12 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 99. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide details in tabular form by District Court and circuit area by month since the introduction of Go Safe in 2009 of the cases dismissed by judges because of claims by motorists that they had not received notifications of the speeding fines in the post; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43424/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Provision (12 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 161. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total water consumption by local authority area on 1 October 2013 and on 1 October 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43452/14]