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Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (23 Nov 2011)

Patrick O'Donovan: Question 204: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an application made for single farm payment in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36413/11]

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (29 Nov 2011)

Patrick O'Donovan: Question 369: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, further to Parliamentary Question No. 419 of 15 November 2011, in a situation in which a property management company has gone into liquidation and a housing estate has not been taken in charge by the local authority, if he will confirm that the legal responsibility for ongoing maintenance and carrying out...

Written Answers — Fishing Industry Development: Fishing Industry Development (29 Nov 2011)

Patrick O'Donovan: Question 475: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total tonnage of mussel seed taken, under joint management, from Ireland's exclusive fishery limits and relayed in Ireland's exclusive fishery limits for each year from 2002 to 2011, inclusive; the total tonnage of mussel seed taken, under joint management, from Ireland's exclusive fishery limits and relayed in...

Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2011)

Patrick O'Donovan: Did the Deputy stay awake all night thinking up that one?

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)

Patrick O'Donovan: There are many similarities between this jurisdiction and Northern Ireland. The funding for Northern Ireland comes from the Westminster Parliament in an annual envelope and for the past 12 months, our funding has come from a troika in an annual envelope. We are no longer the authors of our own destiny, no more than the representatives of the Northern Ireland Executive are a sovereign...

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)

Patrick O'Donovan: It is like listening to a foreign radio channel on my left. I agree with a point made by Deputy Derek Nolan. I worked in the area of education and I know there is a lot more to child neglect than is caused by the level of income of a family. One must take a holistic approach to any discussion of child welfare. Why, when thousands of euro from the State coffers are going into some...

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Government volunteered the services of the Department of Finance to cost any such proposals but the Opposition will not produce any. The cheap seats are always the easiest seats and those who say they do not want to do this or that are seated in them. We want to fix the deficit, however. We have listened to suggestions that we take the Bolivian or Argentinian route, which would mean...

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)

Patrick O'Donovan: To use the words of a person who graced these corridors once upon a time this is a case of, "Crisis, what crisis?" Members of the public are neither fools nor stupid. They know that if one is earning €500 per week but spending €800, one must choose between borrowing or cutting expenditure.

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)

Patrick O'Donovan: Like our friends north of the Border, we no longer have the capability to borrow and are beholden to three institutions which have come to our assistance, namely, the European Central Bank, International Monetary Fund and European Commission. Our friends in Sinn Féin would have us tell these institutions to go home because we can manage our own affairs. I want to have a functioning social...

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)

Patrick O'Donovan: Sinn Féin opposes every single suggestion made by the Government.

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)

Patrick O'Donovan: It has refused point blank to engage in any form of constructive reality, despite being given an opportunity to do so week in and week out.

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)

Patrick O'Donovan: Since the general election, the most widely used word in the Sinn Féin vocabulary has been "No". North of the Border the party appears to live in some sort of parallel universe which is probably more akin to reality than the little planet its Deputies inhabit down here. It acts in a quasi-responsible fashion in the North in what is not a sovereign parliament but one for which Westminster...

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)

Patrick O'Donovan: -----I wish they would have a chat with their colleagues north of the Border. It should place the headings "Priorities" and "Realities" on top of a sheet of paper and underneath write the following, "We are bringing in €30 billion and spending €50 billion". They can then do a calculation which children in first class can do, although I do not have a problem if the Deputies opposite need...

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)

Patrick O'Donovan: Sinn Féin will come back next week with the same tired argument. I ask them, for God's sake, to bring their calculators with them the next time they come to the House.

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)

Patrick O'Donovan: They should do the sums in advance and tell those who elected them the truth. I respect the mandate they have been given but when Sinn Féin Deputies speak of burning the bondholders and produce paraphernalia such as matches, they should not forget that thanks to the previous Government, we have imposed a debt on every citizen. They should be mindful that in burning the bondholders, they...

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy is dead right.

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (30 Nov 2011)

Patrick O'Donovan: Question 78: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is possible for children from Belarus who come to Ireland to live with foster families to receive financial support towards their education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38062/11]

Written Answers — Milk Quota: Milk Quota (30 Nov 2011)

Patrick O'Donovan: Question 177: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an application for additional quota in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [37834/11]

Written Answers — Milk Quota: Milk Quota (30 Nov 2011)

Patrick O'Donovan: Question 178: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is likely to be a surplus of quota left over at the end of the year to be distributed to over-quota producers as part of the flexi-milk system. [37843/11]

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (30 Nov 2011)

Patrick O'Donovan: Question 221: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37984/11]