Results 4,861-4,880 of 10,573 for speaker:Patrick O'Donovan
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Funding (1 Dec 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: 380. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to revert to this Deputy on (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43030/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Preschool Services (1 Dec 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: 381. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to revert to this Deputy on (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43031/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (1 Dec 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: 433. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the case of a person (details supplied) who requires financial assistance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42708/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (1 Dec 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: 435. To ask the Minister for Health the financial assistance available to parents of children who contracted narcolepsy as a result of the swine flu vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42729/15]
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Deputy Fitzmaurice had his chance to speak.
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: As a member of the Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport, I want to speak about the Report Stage amendment that Deputy Boyd Barrett has tabled. The amendment cuts to the core of future development policy of the port infrastructure network throughout the country. During the tenure of the Minister, Deputy Paschal Donohoe, and that of his predecessor, we spent much time over a...
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: -----that an attack of that nature would be made in the House. The reason I cannot agree with Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett’s amendment is that it undermines the entire thrust of the ports policy.
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: And me.
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: We know that.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (2 Dec 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: 44. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the qualifying criteria for the part-time job incentive scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43058/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Care Professionals (2 Dec 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: 131. To ask the Minister for Health if he has made a final decision regarding his proposal to prescribe the title of physical therapist as a variant of the specified title of physiotherapist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43133/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (2 Dec 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: 146. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application (details supplied) under the capital programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43199/15]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: I welcome the guests. Is it not highly unlikely that the EPA would have been able to acquire expertise of this nature, which is so specific to a very narrow section of science and technology? Indeed, is it not highly unlikely that the expertise available would not be connected in some way to industry?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Would it not be fair to say that the vast majority of money being invested in research in this area is coming from the commercial sector and not from the state sector? Is it not in their interest to have the research?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: I would like to ask Mr. Lynott about the relationship the EPA has with other environmental protection agencies on the matter. What level of engagement does it have with its EU counterparts or the US authorities on this? I look at this very coldly from an outsider's point of view. In the US, it is open season on fracking at the moment, which would not inspire confidence in a person who has...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Even it is only water and air, as it is supposed to be, there is no indication as to what happens the geology on the way down. My biggest concern is that vein of territory, starting on the shores of Lough Derg in east Clare up to the border between Cavan and Fermanagh, is very susceptible to high levels of naturally-occurring radon which we can deal with if it is allowed to be emitted...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Would it be fair to say that the advice, if any, coming from the EPA in the US, is not carrying the same weight as that from the Europe because we are inside the shed and the horse is half a mile down the road?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Is it lax?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Is it not a bit unbelievable that the geology in Wyoming or Utah or Montana would be so different from the geology in Ballinamore or Virginia? That is unrealistic.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: What about the flood barrier in Clontarf?