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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Post Office Closures (11 Dec 2018)

Bobby Aylward: He keeps going back to the one thing.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Post Office Closures (11 Dec 2018)

Bobby Aylward: Where is the report on sustainability?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Post Office Closures (11 Dec 2018)

Bobby Aylward: Where is the report on sustainability?

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: LEADER Programmes Administration (11 Dec 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 50. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he is satisfied that the application process for community groups applying to LEADER is efficient and that the process is not discouraging groups from making an application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51863/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Jobs Data (11 Dec 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 83. To ask the Taoiseach the additional jobs added in the 12 months to Q3 2018 in County Kilkenny from the latest labour force survey. [50507/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (11 Dec 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 550. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding contractual, pay and pension concerns raised by community employment scheme supervisors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52033/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Security (12 Dec 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 140. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the report into the circumstances surrounding the escape of a prisoner (details supplied) requested for by his predecessor following the stabbing of two prison officers in Tallaght hospital in February 2018; if the report will be made available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52359/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services Provision (13 Dec 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 123. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the impending retirements of general practitioners at medical centres (details supplied); his plans to ensure that services do not diminish due to possible delays in securing replacement general practitioners; his plans to ensure the recruitment campaign for these specific medical centres is adequate in securing the...

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)

Bobby Aylward: I welcome the representatives of the Department of Education and Skills, the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport and Bus Éireann. The roll-out of the bus system for schools was a good idea and I availed of it when I attended secondary school in 1968, which is a good few years ago now. While it was a great scheme when it was rolled out, there is always a "but". I am a rural...

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)

Bobby Aylward: I understand there is waste and will give examples affecting my constituents. I have experienced this myself as I must drive through these areas. A 40-seater bus serves a small place called Paulstown and brings children to Kilkenny but seven children have been left off. I believe that it would not cost an awful lot of money to provide a 50-seater bus. I disagree with the changes that...

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)

Bobby Aylward: We did for 40 years.

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)

Bobby Aylward: Does the Secretary General think parishes, particularly in rural Ireland, should be recognised in the criteria? I am not talking about parents who want to pick specialist schools for their children and want the State to pay for it. I am talking about parents sending their children to one primary school in a parish. The parents have no choice because there is only one primary school in the...

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)

Bobby Aylward: I am talking about the school bus service, not an individual service.

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)

Bobby Aylward: I am not talking about the Catholic Church. I am talking about all churches.

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)

Bobby Aylward: I do not want to get into anything personal. In Kilkenny, there is another school of another faith that gets that privilege and students are being brought to the school. The situation has caused a lot of anxiety because one faith gets the service yet only students of that faith are transported to the school. That situation is wrong and it has caused a lot of problems in my area.

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)

Bobby Aylward: I will move on to another matter. The Secretary General has stated that school transport cost €190 million in 2017. Was that value for money? I want to discuss the surplus. The Secretary General has said that there will be no surplus in 2019. There was one in 2015, according to the report compiled by the Comptroller and Auditor General. To me, the term "surplus" sounds like a...

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)

Bobby Aylward: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)

Bobby Aylward: Bus Éireann is rolling out the scheme and it has subcontracted a lot of buses from private individuals. Is Bus Éireann making a profit running the scheme? It is being said that its coffers are a lot richer because of the roll-out of the bus scheme. I want to go a step further. It is a monopoly when there is only one service provider. Would we get better value for money if we...

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)

Bobby Aylward: How does the Department know this when it does not have anybody else doing this or competing for it? Could better value be got if it went out to a private contractor to provide the service, for example, for Kilkenny alone for 12 months? One could then let Bus Éireann and private contractors bid against it and one could see who came in with the best value.

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)

Bobby Aylward: Could a private contractor not do that as well?