Results 3,561-3,580 of 10,573 for speaker:Patrick O'Donovan
- Order of Business (25 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy voted for it.
- Topical Issue Debate: Building Regulations (25 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: I apologise for the delay, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Topical Issue Debate: Building Regulations (25 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this Topical Issue for debate. I have already spoken to the Minister about it and I know he is working on the matter. I am raising this item in the context of recent changes that were made to the Central Bank's lending requirements for mortgages. There is a specific issue concerning one-off rural houses. When houses are being built currently, the...
- Topical Issue Debate: Building Regulations (25 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: I welcome the Minister of State's decision to review SI 9 this year. It is an important signal to send out to people with one-off rural houses. I know the Minister of State is a great proponent of one-off rural houses. From my time on the local authority and from the Minister of State's membership of Waterford County Council, we both recognise that there is a very strong anti-rural house...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (25 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: 35. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to regularise the provision of home care, both public and private, provided to elderly persons, and vulnerable adults, in their own homes; his plans to extend the Health Information and Quality Authority inspection regimes to those organisations, and companies, that provide home care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7897/15]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Prices: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: As I concur with everything Deputy Noel Harrington said, I will not repeat it. Recent commentary has suggested one could abolish Irish Water's charges and transfer them to those paying commercial rates. Presumably, all of the companies represented are paying commercial rates to local authorities, be they wind energy producers or engaged in the use of gas or oil. Using that analogy, will...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Prices: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Senator Brennan would be mindful of his pension.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Prices: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: There is not long now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Prices: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Has the company discussed this with the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Prices: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Has the company requested a discussion?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Prices: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Have they refused?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Prices: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: I do not disagree. Have the companies requested meetings with the Departments of Public Expenditure and Reform and Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, on this issue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Prices: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Have the companies met the Departments?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Prices: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: I have noted the increase. In 2012 an individual company paid €167,000 to Limerick County Council and this cost has now risen to €557,000. That is an astronomical amount yet some people are suggesting that they should carry the burden of Irish Water on top of that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Prices: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: How does one shut a wind farm?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Prices: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Is it dismantled?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Prices: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Is it fair to say that the responses from the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resource and the Department of Public Expenditure, have been less than favourable?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Prices: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Is that a "Yes" or a "No"?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Prices: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: When it comes to a town nearby, it is a different question. What happened in Limerick was horrendous. It is going around the country like a bandwagon. It is moving on and will be in County Mayo one of these days.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Prices: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: I made the suggestion that the companies in the sector would take on the burden of the cost of Irish Water. How would the delegates feel about that suggestion?