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Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: We will try to.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: No, because has to go on Galway Bay FM.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I have a number of things to say.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Government's ports policy was attacked with an astounding level of ignorance a while ago. It is obvious to me that the Deputy in question has not read the ports policy. If he has read it, he certainly does not know about the levels of tonnage that are being transferred through most of the ports he mentioned. I remind him that the Shannon Foynes Port Company conveys in excess of 10...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I did not interrupt the Deputy. I listened to his rant for long enough. I think everybody in here has had to listen to it as well. To be quite honest, if the person who is now making the charge against the policy had engaged with the ports companies and the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport at this committee in any kind of constructive way, if he had spoken to the people who are...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: This policy and the Bill in question are about recognising-----

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: The amendments before the committee are about recognising for the first time that a level or tier of ports in this country has a more local emphasis than a national one. People have said over the years that we cannot have cancer services and accident and emergency departments at every crossroads. In the same way, we cannot expect to berth Panamax ships at every port in the country. It is...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I would like to make a final point in conclusion.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I have waited a long time for this Bill to come in. The stakeholders in the companies around the country, who have also waited a long time, are looking for certainty. They now have the policy. The Minister knows that I am consistent on this issue. Every time he has been here, I have asked for this Bill to be brought forward so that this policy can be legislated for as soon as possible....

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Through the Chair, I have no difficulty with Deputy Kyne's position, but what I have a difficulty with is people coming in and throwing around glib remarks and insulting others in a manner which does not do the Deputy or his party any good. He might reflect on his remarks and use the opportunity to apologise before he leaves, because he promised us he was leaving.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: By those in the west.

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Whose fault is that?

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Preschool Services (12 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 148. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the case of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick regarding a reduced rate of capitation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39912/15]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I have two questions. First, when are the financial statements for 2014 due? On the non-competitive procurement threshold of €60,000, was it an arbitrary figure? Is it related to the figure of €2.6 million worth of services? How are the two related?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Is that still UCD’s practice?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: It is in contravention of what the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform requires of other State agencies.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Does it see anything wrong with that?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Is it the only university that is non-compliant in that regard?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: UCD is special.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (12 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I think what Mr. McCarthy has just read out smacks of the arrogance of the institution. It is as if it is asking why it should bother with what the national Parliament and Government have set down and saying it knows more than them and will set its own rules. If the HEA and Department of Education and Skills are before us any time soon, the president of UCD will have to be here as well to...