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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Is the Comptroller and Auditor General happy that the 2015 accounts will be presented in 2016 along with the 2012, 2013 and 2014 accounts?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: How long, in your estimation, will it be before the college is up to speed and running a normal set of accounts?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Is that from an audit statement point of view?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Which will probably be received in 2017.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Chairman will be here then, or he might be Minister for Education and Skills.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I was missing for the last meeting. Is any update on the issue with regard to the University of Limerick which was raised at the committee previously? I asked this question before, but it might have been dealt with. When the representatives from NAMA were here they gave us a figure for the number of social housing units that were rejected by local authorities in Dublin and other areas of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Yes, I see it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: That shows house completions rather than-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: It was suggested here at the meeting that we ask the local authorities in question the reasons the houses were refused.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I ask the Chairman to outline the position on the University of Limerick issue.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I am asking about the expenses issue.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: That was at Limerick Institute of Technology, on the other side of the Shannon but in the same city.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: DART Underground and Expansion Projects: National Transport Authority (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I refer to the extension of the M7 coach service to Tralee and Killarney in the recent past and the decision to disallow pick-ups at towns on the routes from Limerick to Tralee and Limerick to Killarney, including Abbeyfeale, Castleisland and Newcastlewest. The witnesses might come back to me on that. The second issue will come as no surprise to the Chairman or Mr. Creegan. I am absolutely...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: DART Underground and Expansion Projects: National Transport Authority (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: -----as there are jobs being held up which cannot be filled in rural hackney companies due to the intransigence of the National Transport Authority. I met the taxi committee of the National Transport Authority and received a very fair hearing from the taxi representatives themselves, especially the rural ones. Lo and behold, after a very positive meeting and engagement, it was nailed by the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: DART Underground and Expansion Projects: National Transport Authority (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I want to know what the NTA is doing about this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: DART Underground and Expansion Projects: National Transport Authority (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Out of how many applications?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: DART Underground and Expansion Projects: National Transport Authority (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: That is what I meant.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: DART Underground and Expansion Projects: National Transport Authority (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I have been raising this issue for the past four years. Is it fair to ask somebody who applies for a hackney licence in Mitchelstown where the post office in Bantry is?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: DART Underground and Expansion Projects: National Transport Authority (5 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I will ask the question again. Is it fair that a hackney driver in Mitchelstown who will cover parts of counties Limerick and Tipperary and north east Cork should be expected to know where the post office in Bantry is, given that it is as far away from Mitchelstown as O'Connell Street in Dublin?