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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Regulations (17 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: 104. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will confirm that all contracts awarded through the public procurement process during the lifetime of this Government were so awarded only after the company to which the contract was awarded was fully incorporated, including those contracts with a value of below €5,000, which were awarded but which still require the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts Expenditure (17 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: 105. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total quantum of expenditure with suppliers on contracts of value less than the €5,000 threshold, below which contracts may be awarded on the basis of a verbal quotation; when he plans to extend the national e-procurement system to cover all public procurement contracts, with a value both above and below €5,000; if...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (17 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: 106. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if persons and bodies corporate without any training in procurement or commerce are permitted to put services out to tender through the public procurement process; the training that persons or bodies must undertake in order to be eligible to run tendering processes and interpret responses received using the public procurement process,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (17 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: 107. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the ethical standards Public Servants must conform to when they contract on behalf of the State; if there is a central register where Public Servants personally declare that they have no vested interest in the awarding of contract, and no conflict of interest in awarding any contracts of any value whatsoever; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Regulations (17 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: 108. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if any measures are utilised to ensure that competing parties in the public procurement process are compared on a like-for-like basis in respect of standards in workplace safety and employment regulations, notwithstanding that a competing party may use inputs from low-cost countries outside of the European Union in the supply-chain...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (17 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: 109. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the appeal mechanisms, outside of judicial review, that are in place for parties who are unsuccessful in the public procurement process; his plans to introduce such an appeal mechanism; the specific steps the State takes to ensure that parties who are unsuccessful in the public procurement process and undertake a judicial review...

Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Second Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: Am I the last speaker?

Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Second Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: I will try to complete my contribution before the adjournment. This is relatively uncontentious legislation. I join the previous speakers in paying tribute to the staff of the Houses of the Oireachtas. Sometimes I wonder how they can bear to sit in the Chamber and listen to the utterances of many Members of the House. I know we are all familiar with the left and right hand side of...

Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: They are related matters.

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: I fully support any measure that assists in freeing up development land, the building of houses and particularly reducing the cost of construction. Over the past decade a number of Bills have been introduced to try to assist in this. Some have worked to a degree and many have not. I do not know if this legislation will work. I would like to think it will. There are three aspects to...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: I have a quick point of order to put to the Minister of State. I ask him to consider dealing with the Irish Water connection charges to individual houses in the legislation.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Legislation (18 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: 131. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding roadside breath testing; if a lower alcohol to breath limit than normally applies for those with a full driving licence will be applied where a driver does not have a full driver's licence to hand; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24239/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (18 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: 272. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she or her predecessors received a request from the Beit Foundation for assistance in the upkeep of Russborough House in Blessington in County Wicklow; if so, the details of same; and the action that was taken. [24355/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (18 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: 273. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding that was provided to assist in the promotion or upkeep of historic houses, which are the responsibility of trustees, in the years 2000 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; the amounts provided and the houses to which they were provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24356/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (23 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: 181. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding her Department recommending to persons, on pension application forms, to use banks for payments (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24900/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Staff (23 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: 243. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding proposals by Allied Irish Banks to outsource work and staff from the application and development management teams within its information technology division to a third-party service provider; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24799/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (23 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: 517. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the stage which plans for a new mixed secondary school (details supplied) in Dublin 24 have reached; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24492/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (24 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: 288. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the persons and bodies responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of archaeological monuments, the protection of which come within her remit under the various National Monuments Acts. [25430/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: State Examinations Commission: Engagement with Chair-Designate. (24 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: I wish Mr. Burke well in his new role. I also compliment him on being instrumental in the policy decision to open up scripts to students. Mr. Burke is an innovative individual and I am sure some of my suggestions can be implemented as I see no reason they should not be. I would like him to put to bed, or address firmly, one or two issues, if he can do so. I have raised these issues in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: State Examinations Commission: Engagement with Chair-Designate. (24 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: The artworks and materials are already in schools so it would be no problem for families to get them back. Returning the items to students would save the SEC the difficulty of destroying them. The items should be returned be it needlework, painting or whatever and I can see no reason not to do so. Another important issue is the rechecking of examination papers. Time and again I have...