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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Evaluations (19 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 463 of 11 November 2014, if she will provide details, in tabular form by county for both primary and secondary schools for 2013, of the number of instances during the completion of whole school evaluation reports and visits to schools by inspectors where serious shortcomings in relation to school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Minor Works Scheme Applications (19 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be an allocation for a minor works grant this year in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44440/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Fire Safety (19 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department's planning and building unit received correspondence from fire officers regarding issues of emergency access and egress in schools during the years 2011 to date in 2014; if she will provide details of the counties and locations from where correspondence was received; the actions that her Department's building unit took as a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Asbestos Remediation Programme (19 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details in tabular form by county since 2011 of the number of requests her Department's planning and building unit has received from schools to deal with asbestos related problems; the number of those schools that have had their issue successfully resolved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44445/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Funding (19 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 185. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department provided funding for festivals to local authorities this year; if so, if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown by local authority of the funding they received; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44486/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: National Postcode System: (Resumed) Discussion (19 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: In fairness, Chairman-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: National Postcode System: (Resumed) Discussion (19 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Chairman, we have been here for an hour and a half.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: National Postcode System: (Resumed) Discussion (19 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy has made approximately six interventions, while Deputy Brendan Griffin, Senators Eamonn Coghlan and Sean D. Barrett and I have been waiting for an hour and a half. Fair is fair. I would like us to move on, please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: National Postcode System: (Resumed) Discussion (19 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: After six interventions, enough is enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: National Postcode System: (Resumed) Discussion (19 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Thank you, Chairman. I was beginning to think you had forgotten about the rest of us.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: National Postcode System: (Resumed) Discussion (19 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: It was more of a conversation than a question and answer session. I welcome the Eircode representatives. It is so long since the initial statement was made, one would nearly want to have a rewind function. The delegates mentioned that they wanted to avoid socially generated addresses that would associate people with different strata of society. In that context, why not get rid of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: National Postcode System: (Resumed) Discussion (19 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: That was not the point I made. I pointed out that if the process had been based on a different mechanism, a company in Cork would have been eligible to tender. The Commission found that the company was not eligible because the turnover bar had been set too high.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: National Postcode System: (Resumed) Discussion (19 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: How much is it?

Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Does that apply to the assassination of gardaí?

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle is referring to Deputy Paul Murphy.

Local Government (Rates and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: I welcome the opportunity to speak. Any occasion on which we have a chance to speak about local government funding is particularly welcome. I compliment the Deputy on his introduction of the Bill. While the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, has provided reasons for the Government's refusal to accept it, I note that doing nothing on rates is...

Local Government (Rates and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy knows how it works, unfortunately.

Local Government (Rates and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: My legacy.

Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Of course not.

Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Judge and jury.