Results 3,121-3,140 of 10,573 for speaker:Patrick O'Donovan

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting of Personnel (11 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 116. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the provisions of the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Act 2012 extend to those persons who engage in canvassing for political parties. [47573/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting of Personnel (11 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 117. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the provisions of the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Act 2012 extend to those persons who deliver the post and to those who work as parcel delivery-courier personnel. [47574/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting of Personnel (11 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 121. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if members of An Garda Síochána have to be Garda vetted in order to be deemed suitable to work with children and other vulnerable persons; if so, if she will provide details in tabular form by division of the numbers of members of An Garda Síochána who are not yet Garda vetted. [47577/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Garda Vetting of Personnel (11 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 143. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide details of correspondence between his Department and the Departments of Education and Skills and Health on the number of people working with children and employed by those Departments who have yet to be Garda vetted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47575/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Garda Vetting of Personnel (11 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details in tabular form by county of the numbers of teachers, special needs assistants and support staff who have not been Garda vetted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47576/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Television Licences Data (11 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 202. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide details in tabular form by county for 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014 of the number of persons who have been prosecuted for non-payment of the television licence. [47578/14]

Public Accounts Committee: Credit Union Fund Accounts 2013; Credit Resolution Institution Fund Accounts 2013; and Credit Union Restructuring Board Accounts 2013 (11 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: I welcome the witnesses. My brother is chairperson of a credit union and he is a member of ReBo.

Public Accounts Committee: Credit Union Fund Accounts 2013; Credit Resolution Institution Fund Accounts 2013; and Credit Union Restructuring Board Accounts 2013 (11 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: I thank Mr. McVeigh. My brother is so effective that this is the first time I have had the chance to discuss ReBo with anyone.

Public Accounts Committee: Credit Union Fund Accounts 2013; Credit Resolution Institution Fund Accounts 2013; and Credit Union Restructuring Board Accounts 2013 (11 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: My concern relates to what Deputy Connaughton said. The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Transport and Communications, of which I am a member, has done a lot of work on the future of the An Post network, in particular in rural communities. There is no doubt the sustainability of the network will come under enormous pressure. The reality is that for many communities no financial services will...

Public Accounts Committee: Credit Union Fund Accounts 2013; Credit Resolution Institution Fund Accounts 2013; and Credit Union Restructuring Board Accounts 2013 (11 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Has the Department looked at the existing legislative framework to see what legislative change, if any, would be required if there was to be movement in this regard?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme Eligibility (16 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 310. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the proposed salary cap for young farmers under the rural development programme; and the proposed salary cap for off farming income; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47951/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (16 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 314. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48053/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Protection of Habitats (16 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 322. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of discussions his Department have had during 2014 with the European Commission in respect of issues associated with the designation of farm land for the protection of habitats for the hen harrier; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48258/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Eligibility (16 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 339. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of a recent response by the EU Commissioner for agriculture to a parliamentary question, if he will provide details in tabular form by county since 2009 of the number of farmers who have lost their single farm payment because of a loss of compliance with the definition eligible and where the eligibility has been lost as a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (16 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 638. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to install public lighting on the N21 at the principal junction in Rathkeale, County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47820/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Improvement Schemes (16 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 639. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to install public lighting at Banogue village in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47823/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Wildlife Conservation (16 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 693. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide details in tabular form by county of the number of landowners who have been instructed by National Parks and Wildlife Service to change their farming activities since the implementation of Directive 2009/147/EC, as it relates to the protection of the habitat of the hen harrier; and if she will make a statement...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Special Protection Areas (16 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: I am deputising for Senator Pat O'Neill.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Special Protection Areas (16 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: I welcome the delegates. I live in the middle of a hen harrier designated area. All of west Limerick is designated. I have heard about this in chapter and verse for many years. It is not today or yesterday that this issue has become a problem but it is now coming to a head. To be fair, most landowners do not really have a difficulty with the designation and understand the reasons for it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Special Protection Areas (16 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: It is important to point out that the washing of the hands in public is all very well and good but the reality is that these people are living with a problem that was created under the negotiations carried out by the Irish Government at the time when the directive was being drawn up by the European Commission. We can talk all we want about irrelevant issues such as whether we remain in...