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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (27 Nov 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for additional accommodation that is with the devolved scheme unit of his Department in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; when a decision will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52804/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (27 Nov 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo may expect to receive a decision regarding their disability allowance appeal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52422/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (27 Nov 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a decision on their disability allowance appeal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52468/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Illness Benefit Appeals (27 Nov 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal for illness benefit in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; when a decision will issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52734/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Installation Aid Scheme Applications (27 Nov 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details in relation to correspondence received by this Deputy (details supplied); if he will confirm the two applicants who lodged the appeals to the Young Farmers Installation Scheme; if he will furhter confirm the decision of the Agriculture Appeals' Office which allowed the appeal to be upheld; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications (27 Nov 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an application for disadvantaged area scheme grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal, when payment will issue. [52280/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (27 Nov 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an application for single farm and area aid scheme grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal, when payment will issue. [52281/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals (27 Nov 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an application for disadvantaged area scheme grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal. when payment wil issue. [52282/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (27 Nov 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an application for single farm scheme grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal, when payment will issue. [52283/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications (27 Nov 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a disadvantaged area scheme grant application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will issue. [52340/12]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Investigations (27 Nov 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will support the establishment of an investigation into the events leading up to the collapse of the Waterford Pilot Training College which has resulted in uncertainty and severe hardship for the students and parents involved, in order to ensure that measures can be proposed and implemented where possible to avoid another similar...

Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy claims expenses.

Other Questions: Famine Commemoration (28 Nov 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Minister has outlined the location of previous and future national commemoration events. Will he give consideration to the holding of an all-island commemoration in the future with a North-South ministerial dimension? The commemoration affects the 32 counties. Would the Minister of State's Department, in conjunction with its Northern counterpart, consider doing this on a joint basis,...

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012. The Bill primarily focuses on the changes that the Government has announced to Dáil constituencies. I welcome that the legislation commits to respecting county boundaries where possible. This is important to me because the boundaries of County Limerick, which I represent, were not...

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: There is a huge anomaly in that regard. The foreign channel has a bad habit of breaking through across the air waves here. There is an anomaly and I urge the Minister to address that. The political parties in the Dáil must keep a set of accounts with regard to what they do with the Leader's allowance and these accounts must be audited and assessed annually. However, the same does not...

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: The electorate has the right to know what way the Independent Members are spending their money. I must have touched a nerve, because all of a sudden the Independent Members have woken from their slumber. The electorate has a right to know how their money is being spent. Essentially, that €43,000 comes on top of Deputies salaries of €86,000, for which they do not need to...

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: These are the people who talk about austerity, household charges, VAT and so on, yet they have no problem taking this unvouched payment into their hands. If we are to have political accountability, we should start with that. Another anomaly that has arisen is that we have a party in the Dáil, which claims to be an all-island party, which has six Members of a foreign parliament who...

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: I do not need to be reminded of it. Some of the people who hold Dáil seats were former non-participating representatives in a foreign parliament and had no problem drawing the £180,000 allowance on offer.

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: Absolutely. I never believed in the partitionist politics of Sinn Féin, where it says one thing in this House and another thing in the North.

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: What the Minister proposes in terms of boundaries must be looked at also in terms of local electoral areas. I urge him, when looking at the make-up of local electoral areas, to consider the rural counties. Councillors are serving rural electoral areas in constituencies throughout the country that are bigger than some Dáil areas and cognisance needs to be taken of this. I have often...