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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (14 Feb 2013)

Timmy Dooley: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive a decision in relation to their Student Universal Support Ireland application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8000/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of State Assets (19 Feb 2013)

Timmy Dooley: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his assessment of the strategic value of the State's holding in Aer Lingus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8967/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of State Assets (19 Feb 2013)

Timmy Dooley: I thank the Minister for his reply. It is the first time I have heard a representative of this Government accept that there are strategic issues in regard to the ownership of Aer Lingus and, in particular, the Minister has identified competition connectivity and employment in the State. He seems to have cast aside, to some extent, the issue of the Heathrow slots and he believes that the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of State Assets (19 Feb 2013)

Timmy Dooley: could put at risk the €18 billion of pharmaceutical and medical technology that are exported by air freight to the US and around €4.5 billion of high tech imports required for a wide range of manufacturing companies in this country. Taking that into account and the fact that so much of our future potential growth is based around our exports sector and around direct access to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of State Assets (19 Feb 2013)

Timmy Dooley: I take at face value what the Minister has said but the Government must carry out a detailed analysis of the marketplace and examine the potential pitfalls of Aer Lingus being bought by some other suitor and ultimately ending up in the hands of Ryanair through some secondary or future deal, which is not beyond the bounds of possibility. A critical analysis of the marketplace must be...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rail Services (19 Feb 2013)

Timmy Dooley: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his assessment of Iarnród Éireann's prospects; his strategy to ensure a viable rail network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8968/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rail Services (19 Feb 2013)

Timmy Dooley: The Minister of State has knowledge of the accounts of the company and in particular the accounts of Iarnród Éireann. From various media reports at the end of last year and early this year he will be aware of the very serious funding crisis in Iarnród Éireann. How does he expect Iarnród Éireann to come through that particular difficulty? He identified the need...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rail Services (19 Feb 2013)

Timmy Dooley: Has the Minister of State seen the five-year business plan, sought external advice on it, passed it to the Department of Finance for comment and signed off on it?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sports Capital Programme Applications (19 Feb 2013)

Timmy Dooley: The Minister of State has met a fair scatter of them.

Other Questions: Road Maintenance (19 Feb 2013)

Timmy Dooley: That is understandable, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, in light of the number of Fine Gael Deputies who have tabled parliamentary questions today. They clearly do not hold parliamentary party meetings at which they get an opportunity to ask the Minister behind closed doors. Nevertheless, it is good to see they have an interest and are assisting the Minister-----

Other Questions: Road Maintenance (19 Feb 2013)

Timmy Dooley: They are assisting the Minister in his efforts to lobby for a greater slice of the budget. Members received a small history lesson from the Minister on the difficulty he faces based on who caused all the problems. He then suggested that somehow the county councils should provide more money. Never having served on a county council but having a keen understanding of what goes on there, I...

Other Questions: Road Maintenance (19 Feb 2013)

Timmy Dooley: The improvement on the road network has led in no small way to the lack of death on the road. It would be a highly retrograde step if we were to allow the road network to deteriorate back to its former state and the only way one can avoid this is by continuing to invest in it and to not allow the state of the surface revert to the position it reached in the past. More money is now available...

Other Questions: Road Maintenance (19 Feb 2013)

Timmy Dooley: I accept the Minister's point but the Government will have to borrow €1 billion less. The Estimates and the budget were prepared on the basis of the capacity the Government had to borrow. The Government should borrow that €1 billion because it will form part of what the Minister's colleague's friend, Jack O'Connor, has been saying. I listened with interest to him earlier....

Other Questions: Road Maintenance (19 Feb 2013)

Timmy Dooley: The Deputy is distancing himself from Mr. O'Connor already.

Other Questions: Road Maintenance (19 Feb 2013)

Timmy Dooley: They are the only ones providing the Government with money at the moment.

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2013)

Timmy Dooley: Check it out with teddy.

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2013)

Timmy Dooley: That was not the car in which the Taoiseach was being driven.

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2013)

Timmy Dooley: The Government will be giving them camper vans shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sale of State Assets (19 Feb 2013)

Timmy Dooley: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the strategic value he puts on the State’s holding in Aer Lingus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8535/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Services (19 Feb 2013)

Timmy Dooley: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a progress report on CIE’s attempts to rectify its financial situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8538/13]