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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (7 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I welcome that. It is very good news. Postmasters would be levitating with rage if the concept of putting it out to tender was there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (7 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Rugby World Cup matches.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (7 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Rugby World Cup is currently being broadcast by TV3 but it does not have a €183 million cushion. It must sell advertising and generate its revenue streams, getting into a competitive market with RTE. It must come out by winning the rights, providing a public service broadcast remit. There is a massive imbalance there. Whether this is corrected through advertising or the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (7 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I apologise for interrupting but 50% of the existing sound and vision scheme goes to RTE.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (7 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: It was €3.5 million in 2014.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (7 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: It must be taken up with the Department so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (7 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Many of the broadcasters are not looking for a handout but rather a level playing field in advertising. Their advertising pool has been shrunk because a State-subsidised entity is hoovering up revenue in many cases in a very competitive advertising environment. That has been put on the table as being unfair. With regard to salaries, if Irish Water or the HSE had to get a technological...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (7 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I am waiting to see it reported.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (7 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I doubt that.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Data (8 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 40. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the average cost of each jobseeker's allowance claim for each of the years from 2011 to date in 2015 ; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35052/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Live Register Data (8 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 41. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the differing exit rates from the live register in 2015 to date in tabular form for single persons who are over 26 years of age and who are under 26 years of age on reduced rates; for persons with adult dependents and with adult and child dependents; and for single parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35053/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Live Register Data (8 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 42. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of persons on the live register in September 2011 and September 2015 in tabular form who are single claimants over 26 years of age and who are under 26 years of age on reduced rates; who have adult dependants or adult and child dependants; and who are single parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit Payments (8 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 43. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the cost of extending jobseeker's benefit to the self-employed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35055/15]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Very briefly, on the concept of supernumerary positions, this is the first time it has come up regarding the positions in LIT. I received recently correspondence from the HSE stating it is unable to provide information on the number of supernumerary positions, if any. Does the Comptroller and Auditor General examine this in the other organisations he audits? It hit the headlines when it...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: This is the question I wanted to get to, because the HSE told me it does not provide details of staff who may be in supernumerary positions. Based on the LIT experience, do we have any indication as to how many more of these types of positions there are in the public sector whereby people turn up for work who do not have a job?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I agree with the Chairman. There is a reputational issue for the University of Limerick and it is in everybody's interest that it be clarified as soon as possible. These allegations are serious and have been around for a while, so the sooner either the Comptroller and Auditor General or the committee itself deals with this the better.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Is Mr. McCarthy satisfied that those control lapses are being dealt with?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Last week, when NAMA was before the committee, its representatives went through the numbers of social housing units that had been allocated to local authorities, particularly in the Dublin region, but which had been refused. Would it be possible to get a report from the CEOs of the four Dublin local authorities on why, in the context of what is on the news every day, they refused the houses...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: It is only Deputy Mattie McGrath.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (13 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 17. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on a review of an application for a disability allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35366/15]