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Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Social Housing Provision (15 Apr 2015)

Derek Nolan: 139. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of social houses that were made available by the National Asset Management Agency for County Galway; his plans to allocate more; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13992/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Suicide Prevention (15 Apr 2015)

Derek Nolan: 476. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make funding available to provide suicide prevention courses in post-primary schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14029/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (15 Apr 2015)

Derek Nolan: 561. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of medical card applicants in the category aged 66 years and over who obtained credits under the headings, allowances for dependants under 16 years of age, rent, mortgage, mortgage protection, travel to work costs - applicant, travel to work cost - spouse and-or partner, childcare costs, maintenance payments,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (15 Apr 2015)

Derek Nolan: 682. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the policy of withdrawing funding for schools who were previously designated under the delivering equality of opportunity in schools scheme and who have amalgamated with schools not so designated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13990/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (15 Apr 2015)

Derek Nolan: 704. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a building (details supplied) in County Galway is currently being rented by the Galway Roscommon Education and Training Board; the suitability of this building for this purpose; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14295/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Vehicle Registration (15 Apr 2015)

Derek Nolan: 748. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider vehicle registration tax exemptions for tractors, where owners have been incapacitated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14033/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Provision (15 Apr 2015)

Derek Nolan: 795. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of units per local authority, announced in the recent housing allocation, broken down between buying, building and leasing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14501/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations (15 Apr 2015)

Derek Nolan: 796. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures taken to improve the standards of apartments being built; the changes that have been brought about, or will be brought about, in relation to improving sound quality in apartments; in making the move away from a reliance on storage heating; and in improving the overall sizes of apartments; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Natural Gas Grid (15 Apr 2015)

Derek Nolan: 832. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to make gas available in a town (details supplied) in County Galway; to put in place the necessary infrastructure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13983/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (16 Apr 2015)

Derek Nolan: 185. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views that a €4,800 water connection fee for a new home in County Galway is excessive; his plans to work with Irish Water to introduce a common fee for the connection of water supplies to all new homes throughout the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15025/15]

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Derek Nolan: I welcome Mr. Griffin, Mr. Colgan and their officials. I thank the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Public Accounts Committee in Northern Ireland for hosting us in Stormont a number of weeks ago to discuss the project. It is shocking reading all of this material in that it sets almost the gold standard for management incompetence and project and oversight failure. From the beginning,...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Derek Nolan: We have all read the reports.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Derek Nolan: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Derek Nolan: I understand civil proceedings are under way in the High Court in Northern Ireland to recoup money. Can I ask Mr. Griffin two questions? What is the current financial status of Bytel? Is it a company of assets from which money can be recovered? Second, has the Department discussed with DETI as to whether, particularly given the invoice for equipment which was not worth the value, this has...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Derek Nolan: Two issues relate directly to the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources. The first is that the letter of offer was based on Bytel and Aurora working together and while Aurora subsequently pulled out, it was a subsidiary of Bord Gáis Éireann, which was a semi-State company that was responsible to the Department. First, the company that pulled out should have...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Derek Nolan: To clarify, is there paperwork or documentation in the Secretary General's Department from that time noting that Aurora had pulled out of the project?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Derek Nolan: Does it not attempt to rescue the project without realising the parameters within which the project is eligible for EU funding?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Derek Nolan: Can Mr. Griffin talk about the 2006 whistleblower allegation?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Derek Nolan: So that is the third juncture at which something could have been done to deal with the failure along the road?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Derek Nolan: Was it the case that people saw this as merely EU money that we would get back, so it did not warrant the same concern as, say, direct Exchequer funding, even though it was direct Exchequer funding that was to be claimed back? Was there any sense from the investigations that this was EU money and that it was not costing us anything?