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

Billy Timmins: Can Mr. Burke deal with the questions on the re-check and on the return of artwork?

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

Billy Timmins: Sorry to interrupt, but it goes back to the school for the re-check so a student can go and see it. It survives the first transport. If someone does not look for a re-check one could arrange to leave it in the school and give it back. It is examined and returned to the school for the re-check so any piece of work, for example a still life, can go back to the school.

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

Billy Timmins: There are not huge numbers of people doing art. Everybody's artwork is returned to the school so that students are afforded the opportunity to look at it. Only a certain percentage look for a re-check. After the re-check it is sent back up to the Department and even if a student does not ask for a recheck it is destroyed somewhere in the Department. I cannot see the worry about it being...

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

Billy Timmins: All the artwork comes back to the school anyway because the school does not know until the night in question how many will come in to look at their material. It has to be there for them in case they all turn up but it then goes back up to the examination board. In the worst case scenario, those who do not look for re-checks should be allowed take their stuff away. Even those who do look...

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

Billy Timmins: What about the timeframe? My understanding is that in Britain it is done within the timeframe.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Vehicle Registration Data (30 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: 610. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total number of heavy goods vehicles registered for the years 2005 to 2014, inclusive; and the amount of income received for road tax for these vehicles for each of those years. [25832/15]

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Billy Timmins: I wish comment on a point the Minister made. He said he was a supporter of the independence of Parliament from the Executive. I want to signal my intention to table an amendment on Report Stage to provide a new section 2 to support that concept by giving powers to the Ceann Comhairle or the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - one or the other - which are currently held by the Government...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Billy Timmins: Under related matters, it will be as much in order as much of the what is happening in the House.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Billy Timmins: I am working on getting it in order.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (2 Jul 2015)

Billy Timmins: 123. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of direct provision centres there are currently in operation; the number of residents in each as of 1 June 2015; the situation on 1 June 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26726/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes (2 Jul 2015)

Billy Timmins: 151. To ask the Minister for Health the facilities available in counties Wicklow and Carlow for those under 18 years of age who need assistance for addiction; the organisations that assist the statutory bodies in the provision of this assistance; the funding allocated; to whom is it allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26721/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (2 Jul 2015)

Billy Timmins: 226. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the current levels of broadband in Baltinglass, Blessington and Dunlavin in County Wicklow and in Naas and Athy in County Kildare; the proposed upgrades for these areas; the proposed timeframe for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26709/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Parks Projects (2 Jul 2015)

Billy Timmins: 240. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on a request by a company (details supplied) to operate its business in Wicklow National Park; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26730/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (9 Jul 2015)

Billy Timmins: 210. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an eye operation in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28089/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (14 Jul 2015)

Billy Timmins: 609. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the drug trastuzumab emtansine, TDM1, also known as ado-trastuzumab emtansine, KADCYLA; if the Health Service Executive will consider funding this new treatment which can prolong life; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28729/15]

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Billy Timmins: In many respects, this confidence motion is irrelevant. It is born out of an adversarial system that has ill served the public. The outcome is well known in advance, the debate predictable. The Opposition comes in and casts a jaundiced eye on the workings and failures of Government and Cabinet Ministers and others line up like King Lear's daughters, protesting their undying obedience and...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Pension Provisions (22 Sep 2015)

Billy Timmins: 132. To ask the Taoiseach the number of annual pension payments made by his Department that exceed €60,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32012/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Work Allowance Applications (22 Sep 2015)

Billy Timmins: 176. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a back to work allowance application by a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30898/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (22 Sep 2015)

Billy Timmins: 379. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of P10s returned for the years 2013 and 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31996/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (22 Sep 2015)

Billy Timmins: 434. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of annual pension payments made by his Department that exceed €60,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32010/15]