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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: So that is not its commitment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: This is important because people are being asked to accept this carbuncle on the landscape across their area, which I understand will go underground at the receiving point in Northern Ireland. It will then feed out through Northern Ireland. They will be asked to take this. It is a one-way energy street. It is starting in County Meath, just north of Maynooth, and will move north. It is of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Mr. Blaney just said that he cannot guarantee the benefit. Unfortunately, I cannot define what future energy might look like.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I will finish on this. I imagine it should be imposed on the suppliers of electricity if this infrastructure is being provided on an all-island basis. The producers and the providers are the main beneficiaries because they will ultimately sell it to their consumers. These are the people who are lobbying intensively for this. They want it because they want to export electricity and are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Mr. Blaney cannot quantify it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I never criticised the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Promotion (17 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 14. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to encourage those local authorities who are touched by or adjoin the Wild Atlantic Way to develop localised driving routes, off the main route; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23237/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (17 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 31. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a decision will be made on any changes to the knowledge test for small public service vehicle licensing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23238/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fuel Prices (17 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 71. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress being made to narrow the differentials between solid fuels north and south of the Border; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24003/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Coroners Service (17 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 131. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, by county, the number of cases dealt with by coroners in 2014; the total cost in each county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24000/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Recruitment (17 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 138. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will confirm, in respect of the panels that were established for the Garda Síochána recruitment campaigns, that all of the candidates in band 1 have now been called and that band 2 candidates will now be called in the next round of recruitment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24109/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Recruitment (17 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 146. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current position of bands 1, 2 and 3 that were formed in the Garda Síochána recruitment process; in view of the fact the candidates who have already been chosen for recruitment have come from band 1; when it is envisaged that the candidates in band 2 will be informed that they will progress to band 1; and if she will make a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Transport Council: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (17 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: As the discussion drifted on, it has prompted me to raise another issue with the Minister, which I accept it may not be possible to address in the short term but which I would nevertheless like the Department to consider, namely, job creation around our ports. As an island country, we are totally dependent on our ports. In the context of our earlier discussion around TEN-T, in my estimation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Transport Council: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (17 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Would the Minister be averse to the idea? Does he see the logic of my argument?

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Flag (18 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 13. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department has been in contact with the British Imperial War Museum in relation to a National Flag captured in Limerick in 1916, with a view to having it returned to Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23549/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Architectural Heritage (18 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 23. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider increasing the amount available to local authorities for the protection of listed structures, and those structures under threat; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23546/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (18 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 46. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will withdraw the recently-revised application forms from her Department and replace them with the previously-issued forms, in which payment at the post office is the first option and no recommendation is made on the application as to the best payment option; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24315/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Deposit Guarantee Scheme (18 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 76. To ask the Minister for Finance in regard to the deposit guarantee directive, if he will use discretion under the directive to ensure that credit unions are to be charged at a lower rate of contribution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24316/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Potato Sector (18 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 124. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the grant aid available to a farmer to construct a potato store on that farmer's land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24454/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Education (18 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 210. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 480 of 21 April 2015, the position regarding the review of the nursing adaption programme by Nursing Homes Ireland, the Health Service Executive and the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, in view of the fact that he previously indicated that this would commence in February 2015 and the executive is now advising...