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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: It is with regret, disappointment and sadness that I must again raise the issue of Spinraza. Twenty-five children have been identified as suffering from spinal muscular atrophy, SMA. We fought a hard fight here and four months ago the HSE approved the provision of Spinraza for those children. When I went back to Kilkenny, I informed a family there that the drug was approved by the HSE...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: Surely it should be ring-fenced for whatever it is designated for. That is it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: That is agreed.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: The Minister has guaranteed that the extra tax that will be collected this year will be ring-fenced and used for environmental projects.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: I thought he gave that commitment on budget day.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Applications (22 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 542. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of an application for a sports capital grant by a club (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43410/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (22 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 627. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) has been included in the review of pension entitlements for persons who were affected by changes in 2012 to the State pension (contributory) scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43422/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (23 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reconsider an additional school accommodation appeal lodged by a school (details supplied) due to lack of space for students, teachers, special needs students and the very obvious health and safety risks set to be endured by students and staff as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43774/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Improvement Scheme (24 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: Can some of the money be redirected to counties Carlow and Kilkenny?

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: LEADER Programmes Data (24 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 13. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount approved for projects to date under the current LEADER programme by LAG; the amount paid out to date by LAG; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43832/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Expenditure (24 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 44. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the level of underspend for each rural scheme administered by his Department as of the end of September 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43833/19]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: Could we ask-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: I welcome Mr. Gleeson and his team and thank him for coming before us to be scrutinised as to how public money is being spent. As a farmer, I naturally want to ask Mr. Gleeson about the beef exceptional aid measure scheme, BEAM, and the beef data and genomics programme, BDGP. Are those schemes fully subscribed, undersubscribed or oversubscribed? It would be interesting to know what...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: What will happen to the money that will not be spent if that matures?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: Why does Mr. Gleeson think that is undersubscribed? Why has that €26 million not been taken up? I thought, from a personal and farming point of view, that it would be oversubscribed.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: The biggest problem was that the two animals had to be weighed.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: All farmers lose animals. I only found out when my son and I applied for the scheme that even if one had a calf, if the mother died, that was excluded. Unfortunately, every farmer loses animals. I thought that was a severe penalty and that that animal should have been included.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: I am just passing a comment on it. No one wants to lose an animal but it happens. I want to move on to Bord na gCon and the horse sport industry, and the money they get every year. I think Bord na gCon gets €16 million and the horse sport sector gets €64 million. What oversight does the Department have over that? It hands the money to both bodies. Does it have a role to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: Is Mr. Gleeson satisfied that the bodies' welfare policies are up to standard and implemented as per the book?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: Horse Sport Ireland gets a certain amount of money each year. It was €2 million in 2016, €2.5 million in 2017, and I think it is increasing to €3 million this year. We met representatives of the organisation before the budget. The Indecon report from 2016 stated that there is great potential in this, with a return of 1,000 times the amount of taxpayers' money spent...