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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Services Provision (13 Jun 2013)

Derek Nolan: 106. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will indicate a time frame within which schools in County Galway will be connected to high speed broadband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28463/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Services Provision (13 Jun 2013)

Derek Nolan: 107. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the timeframe within which schools in County Galway will be connected to high speed broadband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28483/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (13 Jun 2013)

Derek Nolan: 175. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to protect rare sheep breeds; if he will include them in common agricultural policy negotiations and or any other scheme administered by his Department in order to ensure rare breed survival; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28486/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Parking Regulations (13 Jun 2013)

Derek Nolan: 231. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider extending the disabled parking places for the benefit of those reliant on them in circumstances wherein mothers with disabled children have difficulty getting rollators and associated equipment open in such confined spaces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28415/13]

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Derek Nolan: Before I question the Chairman, I should point out that I have always found him to be very fair, strong and independent in chairing meetings of this committee. I will pick up on a point made by Deputies Ross and Nash. The Chairman expressed admiration for the work of the current committee, which he described as a collective and the most important committee of the House. The Chair can be...

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Derek Nolan: I accept that.

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Derek Nolan: I am not necessarily sure it is appropriate for this committee to hold its own Chairman to account for something that happened in his Department but I went along with it because it was a question other people wanted. The first session of this committee hearing was useful and the Chairman answered all questions well. There is an issue about London that people want clarity on. No law or...

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Derek Nolan: What are we saying? Are we saying that someone in the Government instructed people to leak information on Deputy John McGuinness so he would be tarnished as Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts and that we now want to write to the Government to ask it to deny this and tell us it will not do this to our Chairman again? It is a farce and a nonsense.

Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)

Derek Nolan: What are we talking about?

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Bodies Expenditure (18 Jun 2013)

Derek Nolan: 179. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide, in tabular form, the total cost of providing interpreters to the Labour Court, per year, from 2007 to the recent year most readily available; if he will provide, in tabular form, the representative bodies or persons with the highest number of requests for the provision of said services; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Bodies Expenditure (18 Jun 2013)

Derek Nolan: 180. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide, in tabular form, the total cost of providing interpreters to the Equality Tribunal, per year, from 2007 to the recent year most readily available; if he will provide, in tabular form, the representative bodies or persons with the highest number of requests for the provision of said services; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Appeals (19 Jun 2013)

Derek Nolan: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) in County Galway was unsuccessful in its appeal for emergency funding; if there are any other possibilities for it to receive an extension or temporary accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29584/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (19 Jun 2013)

Derek Nolan: 158. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has ever carried out surveys, polling or information gathering, on the perception of the Irish immigration and asylum system in countries or places outside Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29474/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Back to Education Allowance: Discussion on Public Petition Received (19 Jun 2013)

Derek Nolan: I particularly welcome Mr. Walshe and I congratulate him on being the first person to present a petition. It may sound corny but it is historic. His basic point is that setting a number of days for something that people may wish to do is arbitrary and if somebody was suitable for going back to education, he or she should be able to do so, while Ms O'Brien said there should be greater...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Back to Education Allowance: Discussion on Public Petition Received (19 Jun 2013)

Derek Nolan: Is there a contradiction in placing somebody on an internship programme and then putting them on a back to education scheme?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2013)

Derek Nolan: One more item, under any other business. When the Commissioner for Aviation Regulation appeared before the committee, there was an issue related to the pension scheme. It was a small issue but there has since been correspondence between the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform about signing off on the pension scheme. The issue arose...

Public Accounts Committee: 2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund (20 Jun 2013)

Derek Nolan: I welcome Mr. Joe O'Flynn to the meeting and acknowledge the fact that he has attended voluntarily and has asked to speak. As many try not to appear before the committee, it is appreciated that he has attended. Perhaps I can put two questions to the Comptroller and Auditor General before putting questions to Mr. Joe O'Flynn. How would the Comptroller and Auditor General characterise the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund (20 Jun 2013)

Derek Nolan: It was stated in the report that SIPTU took control of the account in 2010. Is there any evidence that it had any engagement or control or interaction with the fund before that time?

Public Accounts Committee: 2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund (20 Jun 2013)

Derek Nolan: I thank Mr. McCarthy. Through the Chair, I suggest to Mr. Joe O'Flynn that this is a very serious issue concerning the fund. It has caused a significant amount of disquiet among the public and in the committee because so many organisations are involved in what can only be described as a catastrophic breakdown in corporate governance. Some of the things for which the account has been used...

Public Accounts Committee: 2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund (20 Jun 2013)

Derek Nolan: Mr. Joe O'Flynn has mentioned that the levy fund is normally not associated with head office, that it is a fund into which branch members pay and is administered for branches. What does he suppose was the motivation of the fund administrator, Mr. Merrigan, for calling it a levy fund?