Results 3,501-3,520 of 10,573 for speaker:Patrick O'Donovan
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: Going on from the vision in Horizon 2020 and beyond, how important is it from Mr. Shanahan's point of view in selling Ireland overseas that there is stability at home?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: I refer to political stability.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: Are negative geopolitical issues in other parts of the world positives for Ireland currently? Is Ireland cashing in on the back of them?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: No, but are their difficulties our opportunity?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: Anecdotally, would Mr. Shanahan be anxious to take up an equivalent role in Greece?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: No. In regard to the regional development strategy, the IDA announced yesterday the initial tranche of larger urban centres. There is a substantial tier of towns in the population category of 1,500 to 7,000 underneath that. Mr. Shanahan told Deputy John Deasy that he was open to suggestions from local authorities. Is he open to suggestions now or will authorities have to wait until 2017?...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: I have a feeling that our region is disadvantaged compared to other regions by virtue of how the land is owned. It is no slur on the airport. It must run its business and make a commercial return. However, if there is a site for sale in Mallow in County Cork versus one for sale in Newcastle West and one is considerably more expensive than the other, there is an obvious attractiveness...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: I thank Mr. Walsh and Mr. Griffin for appearing before the committee. I refer back to the cast iron embedded in concrete guarantee because there is still an unanswered question. The committee's narrative will be that Shannon and Cork airports continue to face a question mark over connectivity. For the benefit of trying to push this forward, could Mr. Walsh give a commitment that this...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: The concern comes from the last time, when 74% was sold and Aer Lingus hightailed it out of Shannon and went to Belfast. I know the reasons but that is the concern.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: For what length of time?
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Eligibility (17 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: 149. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his Department's plans to address the difficulties faced by farmers whose lands have been designated as sanctuaries for protecting the habitat of hen harriers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6621/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (17 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: 223. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary does not qualify for the single parent tax allowance. [6997/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Funding (17 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: 290. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the engagements her Department has had with officials in the European Commission in respect of an application for funding from the Rape Crisis Network Ireland, in respect of funds under the access to justice proposal under the European Union Commission Justice Programme 2014 to 2022; and if she will make a...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Report (17 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: 302. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made, to date, on the recommendations made by Mr. Justice Quirke in respect of the Magdalen laundries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6816/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance Review (17 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: 362. To ask the Minister for Health if a person in receipt of half-rate mobility allowance can have the rate increased (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6805/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Supply (17 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: 375. To ask the Minister for Health the Health Service Executive's plans to include the new drug, Regorasenib Stivarg,a from a pharmaceutical company (details supplied), for inclusion in the community drug scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6903/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Administration (17 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: 392. To ask the Minister for Health if general practitioners can impose a charge of €20, on medical card patients, to provide a script for vital medication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7047/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Grant Payments (17 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: 413. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will confirm that he has approved a grant of €250,000 to a sports club (details supplied) in New York; the terms of this grant; if it is funded from current or capital expenditure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6912/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Grant Payments (17 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: 416. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a legal charge will be required on a sports club (details supplied) in New York, to safeguard the taxpayers' grant-aid of €250,000, as would be required for a similar grant award to a sports club here; and the way this might be registered and enforced, if required. [6915/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Grant Payments (17 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: 417. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the verification and inspection process he has put in place to ensure the integrity of the grant award of €250,000 to a sports club (details supplied) in New York. [6916/15]