Results 721-740 of 4,507 for speaker:Pat Deering

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Technology Adoption Programme Payments (16 Jul 2013)

Pat Deering: 981. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Carlow will receive a BTAB discussion group payment which has been cleared for payment for a number of months. [34928/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Groceries Sector: Discussion with the Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency (16 Jul 2013)

Pat Deering: I welcome our guests here today. Over the past few months we have had detailed discussion with many large multiples and all the shareholders involved in this issue. Like Deputy Pringle, I am not convinced by the arguments some of the multiples have made regarding the issues that seem to come up regularly. Three players in the grocery sector dominate 70% of the market, Tesco, Dunne’s...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Groceries Sector: Discussion with the Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency (16 Jul 2013)

Pat Deering: If a person has X amount of money to spend on X, Y and Z in a supermarket, that person will opt for the cheapest brand of the product at the expense of the quality, regardless of the standard. I take the witness's point that there are issues beyond that point, but there are also issues at that point. If a consumer has only a certain amount of money to spend, he or she will shop around for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Groceries Sector: Discussion with the Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency (16 Jul 2013)

Pat Deering: In view of the fact that there is a realisation in the Competition Authority that all is not rosy in the garden - if I can put it that way - what kind of relationship does the authority have with the retail sector, especially with the grocery sector? Do the authority's officials meet with them monthly or annually? Does the authority ever discuss this big issue that everybody talks about?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Reform of Common Agricultural Policy and Common Fisheries Policy: Discussion with the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jul 2013)

Pat Deering: I compliment the Minister on having achieved a good deal at the end of last month. Obviously, there was much pressure to achieve that deal. If we had not achieved that deal, we would have been in serious difficulties going forward. It is important now to try to make the best of it and achieve as much as possible. The Minister might refer to the reference year, which was a key issue for...

Order of Business (18 Sep 2013)

Pat Deering: Before the summer recess, I raised the matter of the consumer and competition Bill. The Taoiseach outlined to me at that stage there were a number of difficulties with it. As the Taoiseach knows, it makes provision for the statutory code of conduct for the grocery industry. What progress has been made on the Bill since the end of July or thereabouts? What is the timescale for the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Work Initiatives (18 Sep 2013)

Pat Deering: 576. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a breakdown in tabular form the financial allocation for all implementing bodies under the Tús programme since its commencement under the headings of service charges and non-service charges. [37149/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Work Initiatives (18 Sep 2013)

Pat Deering: 577. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of employees in tabular form per implementing body under the Tús programme since its commencement; the average administration spend per employee and the total budget for administration per implementing body. [37150/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (18 Sep 2013)

Pat Deering: 608. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an invalidity pension appeal will be decided in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will expedite an answer. [37536/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (18 Sep 2013)

Pat Deering: 609. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) will be accepted on a course funded by Momentum. [37537/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Administration (18 Sep 2013)

Pat Deering: 879. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total amount of money provided for projects in the Leader Programme 2007-2013 in tabular form, the amount sanctioned and amount drawn down in each measure and by company. [37148/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Support Schemes Issues (24 Sep 2013)

Pat Deering: 258. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider introducing a State funded third level student loan system where students can borrow money for their education and repay the State from future earnings. [39689/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grants Statistics (24 Sep 2013)

Pat Deering: 259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students that entered third level colleges in 2012; the number that applied for college grants; the number that were successful in part or in full; the number of applications that were received from PAYE families, self employed families and unemployed families; and the number of students that declined course offers because their...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (24 Sep 2013)

Pat Deering: 260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider introducing an easy payment system of monthly payments or four payments per school year for school transport fees. [39692/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme Data (24 Sep 2013)

Pat Deering: 343. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a breakdown in tabular form of the 2,600 participants and 130 supervisors in the rural social scheme across the 35 implementing bodies nationwide. [39697/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Expenditure (24 Sep 2013)

Pat Deering: 408. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the remaining Learder funding available for allocation from 1 September to 31 December 2013 following the audit completed by his Department on 31 August 2013. [39695/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Funding (24 Sep 2013)

Pat Deering: 498. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide a breakdown in funding to Macra na Feirme over the past five years; and if she will be engaging with this group prior to Budget 2014 to discuss future allocations. [39691/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transfers (24 Sep 2013)

Pat Deering: 559. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Carlow will be transferred back to a Carlow hospital. [39696/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Sep 2013)

Pat Deering: Sorry, I wish to raise a somewhat trivial matter. Are we in private session now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Sep 2013)

Pat Deering: Yes.