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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Better Energy Homes Scheme (22 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 1545. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to extend the better energy warmer homes scheme administered through the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31434/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Free Travel Scheme (22 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 1601. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is a mechanism available for free travel users to have designated seats on the train; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30786/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries Data (23 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 144. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form the salmon counter figures from the counter at Scartleigh Dam on the River Feale from 1 January 2015 to date in 2015 on a month by month basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32427/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Chairperson Designate (23 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I wish Mr. Gorman well. His credentials speak for themselves and I have no doubt he will make an excellent chairman of Inland Fisheries Ireland. I have a number of questions, but I am sure the chairman designate has been briefed by the CEO, Dr. Byrne, in regard to some of the concerns I raised previously with IFI. I welcome the chairman designate's assertion that the levels of employment...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Chairperson Designate (23 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: They would not agree on what day of the week it was, any more than they would would in Mayo and Galway, but I am sure the Chairman will sort out that problem. Add all of these competing interests together and what are forgotten are the fish, the marine and life on the river. It is amazing that there are fish in rivers, given the number of interests involved. Every single one of them has a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Chairperson Designate (23 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Could I get a reply to my question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Chairperson Designate (23 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Which one? Is it the question about the flooding at Athea?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Chairperson Designate (23 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I spoke about flooding and about the mish-mash of agencies. I also asked at what stage in a downward trajectory in fish levels does conservation kick in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Chairperson Designate (23 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Is that in the Feale or nationally?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Chairperson Designate (23 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Does Mr. Gorman agree with me that there should be a single Department dealing with fishing and a single agency dealing with fish?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Chairperson Designate (23 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: It is refreshing to hear that level of honesty about the agency structure and for a chairman designate to agree with us about the structural deficit. I would not say it if I did not believe it. Mr. Gorman’s honesty about the fiasco we have at the moment is refreshing.

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: An apology would be a good start.

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: And Deputy Finian McGrath.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (24 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 84. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her plans to review the criteria for qualifying for community employment schemes or JobBridge schemes in order to allow persons who receive a widow’s, widower’s or surviving civil partner’s pension to participate in these schemes to improve their employment prospects; and if she will make a statement on the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I will follow on from what Deputy Dowds said about governance, specifically the National College of Art and Design, from the time its representatives were here. The response from the HEA at that stage was wholly inadequate. I know this issue may have been raised directly with the Chairman over the summer, but serious allegations were raised locally in Limerick about the University of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: In support of the Chairman's remarks, two reports were issued in the summer while the Dáil was in recess on consumables within the HSE. I refer to consumable products within a scheduled list of hospitals that had spiralled out of control with no proper tendering or proper procurement. Another issue was raised, again in the summer, on the maintenance of prescription charges. Allegedly,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: How long has this been going on?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: They have had no jobs since 2011 but are on €72,000 a year and nobody has done anything about it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: These skills are obviously non-transferable.

Public Accounts Committee: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013 (24 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I know we are on the GMIT issue, but I mentioned this at the start of the meeting and the Chairman said it might be appropriate to ask it later on. Can I now ask about the issue I raised regarding the University of Limerick and the Limerick Institute of Technology?