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Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)

Barry Cowen: The Minister knows everything, bar the solution.

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)

Barry Cowen: What about the Tesco advertisement?

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)

Barry Cowen: Give me a break.

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)

Barry Cowen: He is stuck in Tesco.

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)

Barry Cowen: Nor five years.

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)

Barry Cowen: People can have a hotel room.

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)

Barry Cowen: He is in Tesco land.

Order of Business (3 Dec 2015)

Barry Cowen: The Minister did not see me on the monitor. I was sitting right here.

Order of Business (3 Dec 2015)

Barry Cowen: Withdraw that remark.

Order of Business (3 Dec 2015)

Barry Cowen: Where are the Bills to which the Minister referred?

Order of Business (3 Dec 2015)

Barry Cowen: I was here; is the Minister trying to say I was not here?

Order of Business (3 Dec 2015)

Barry Cowen: Do not make an allegation that you cannot stand over.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (8 Dec 2015)

Barry Cowen: 127. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly will receive a decision on an application for a disability allowance. [43925/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Grant Applications (8 Dec 2015)

Barry Cowen: 420. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for additional respite hours by a person (details supplied) in County Offaly, when the person will receive payment, and transport for the existing services with the Health Service Executive. [44003/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Generation Targets (8 Dec 2015)

Barry Cowen: 615. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the progress in meeting the overall renewables targets by 2020 under the Renewable Energy Directive 2009/28/EC, including the progress on meeting the targets for the contribution of renewables and biofuels to gross electricity consumption, transport energy and heat since this Government came to office. [44188/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Policy (8 Dec 2015)

Barry Cowen: 616. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his Department's expenditure on subsidies for energy production, on research and development into thermal energy and wind, wave and tidal power, and on the peat public service obligation in each of the years 2011 to date, in tabular form. [44189/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Offshore Renewable Energy Development Plan (8 Dec 2015)

Barry Cowen: 617. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will enhance or incentivise the development of offshore wind energy, including the level of subsidy; and if he has considered proposals for floating offshore wind farms. [44190/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2015)

Barry Cowen: I join other members in welcoming our guests and thank them for their contributions. I wish to ask two questions, the first of which is on AHBs. We would like to empower people to aspire to own their own homes, where possible. Tenant purchase schemes have been advanced over many years by several Governments, including a welcome one in recent weeks. The same opportunity does not exist for...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (9 Dec 2015)

Barry Cowen: 53. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection why there are so many recipients of rent supplement in the local authorities where the housing assistance payment has been rolled out, given that the level of allowable rent is much higher under the housing assistance payment than under the rent supplement; and the number of new recipients of rent supplement since the housing...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: NAMA Social Housing Provision (10 Dec 2015)

Barry Cowen: 4. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will describe the discussions and negotiations he has had with the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, in respect of increasing its provision of social housing units; if he is satisfied the agency is doing all within its authority and legal mandate to increase the supply of social housing; and if he will make a...