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Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (21 Oct 2014)

Seán Kyne: 458. To ask the Minister for Health if, in consideration of the costs associated with maintaining a house, even when unoccupied, if a person in the fair deal scheme residing in a nursing home would be permitted to rent out the house in view of the fact that such a move would help with the increased demand for housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40324/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Energy Conservation (21 Oct 2014)

Seán Kyne: 532. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has plans in place or is considering plans to support the introduction of environmentally friendly and energy efficient methods of heating or generation of electricity, such as biomass fuels and wood pellet burning, for schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40321/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Public Procurement Contracts: Discussion (21 Oct 2014)

Seán Kyne: I welcome the groups here today. I appreciate the sincerity and the concern that they have expressed. A number of groups have contacted me, particularly art suppliers about schools. I represent Galway West so I do not think I was contacted regarding the particular concerns expressed. That is not to say that the speakers were not engaged with other people regarding them. I raised an issue...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Public Procurement Contracts: Discussion (21 Oct 2014)

Seán Kyne: I do.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Public Procurement Contracts: Discussion (21 Oct 2014)

Seán Kyne: I have been quoting the figures given to me in the Dáil by the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Public Procurement Contracts: Discussion (21 Oct 2014)

Seán Kyne: I thank Mr. O'Brien. When the Chief Procurement Officer comes before the committee today, I will raise the matter with him. Mr. O'Reilly mentioned a figure of 27%. To what does that refer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Public Procurement Contracts: Discussion (21 Oct 2014)

Seán Kyne: As opposed to?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Public Procurement Contracts: Discussion (21 Oct 2014)

Seán Kyne: Based on the delegation's figures, how has that changed since 2011, 2012 or 2013?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Public Procurement Contracts: Discussion (21 Oct 2014)

Seán Kyne: That is totally at odds with what the Minister told me in response to a question in the Dáil. He told me that more than 95% of public procurement in Ireland is won by Irish companies, 75% of which are SMEs. I will have to put this matter to the Chief Procurement Officer, because I presume the Minister got his figures from a State agency.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Public Procurement Contracts: Discussion (21 Oct 2014)

Seán Kyne: I welcome our guests. I wish to put a number of questions to Dr. Davis. Reference was made to the Scottish model, the Welsh model, etc. In the studies it compiled, did IBEC compare Ireland with its EU partners in terms of establishing what is the best procurement model? Is there a need to establish a separate working group - similar to that which obtains in respect of SMEs under the...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (22 Oct 2014)

Seán Kyne: I welcome the opportunity to say a few words on the budget, the first, hopefully, of a series of budgets that will start giving money back to people. As the previous speaker and the Minister have said, this is not by accident. It is because of the work we have done over recent years to correct our finances that we are in a position to do this. We have got our deficit under control. That...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Seirbhísí Farantóireachta (22 Oct 2014)

Seán Kyne: 27. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cad é an t-eolas is deireanaí maidir le síniú an chonartha nua don tseirbhís farantóireachta go hInis Mór roimh dheireadh na míosa seo; cén fáth nach ionann na táillí do na seirbhísí idir na hoileáin; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh....

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Special Areas of Conservation Criteria (22 Oct 2014)

Seán Kyne: 29. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the plans she has put in place to compensate farmers who were restricted under the 12 Bens destocking scheme but who have received no payment in 2014; if she has consulted with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine regarding these farmers; and if those of existing ASOS schemes are entitled to a compensating payment in...

Irish Water: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2014)

Seán Kyne: I wish I could say I was happy with everything about Irish Water. I wish I could say it was running smoothly and there were no problems, but I cannot do so. There are many concerns. I agreed with and supported the establishment of a body because, in 2004, when I was a member of the local authority, we received information on an investment programme for the next three to four years, under...

Topical Issue Debate: Radio Broadcasting Issues (23 Oct 2014)

Seán Kyne: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Ann Phelan, and I thank the Ceann Comhairle's office for choosing this topical issue, which I first submitted on 30 September. It has taken a while. It was deferred from last week. We all are aware what happened yesterday. Connemara Community Radio is a community based and run radio station broadcasting for ten hours a day, from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m....

Topical Issue Debate: Radio Broadcasting Issues (23 Oct 2014)

Seán Kyne: I thank the Minister of State for her comprehensive reply. Connemara Community Radio, based in Letterfrack, has applied for the community services programme and I am hopeful we will get good news in that regard. It is important that the Minister of State, Deputy Ann Phelan, would relay to the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, that the pressure...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Implementation (23 Oct 2014)

Seán Kyne: 24. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources pending the completion of the national mapping exercise for the national broadband plan, if public meetings will be held on a regional basis so that householders and business owners will have an opportunity to find out if a home or business is in an area which will be covered by State investment and to receive...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Efficiency (23 Oct 2014)

Seán Kyne: 26. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if support schemes exist to assist with the introduction of energy efficient heating sources such as wood pellet burning and biomass fuels; if such schemes will be examined with a view to introducing such energy efficient means into the stock of public buildings across the country; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Promotion (23 Oct 2014)

Seán Kyne: 207. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views that the holding of Meitheal 2015, Ireland's largest tourism trade fair in County Galway would positively impact on the tourism sector in the west and build on the success of the Wild Atlantic Way; and if he will request Fáilte Ireland, an agency under his Department's remit to analyse whether Meitheal can be held...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Tax and Social Welfare Codes (4 Nov 2014)

Seán Kyne: 125. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the level of interaction that exists between her Department's social welfare services division and the Revenue Commissioners, particularly in terms of sharing of information for the purposes of processing means tested applications of social welfare schemes; if she will report on the upgrading of the IT system within her Department so that all...