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Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (4 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: What are the current arrangements? The option has ceased for the moment. The local people availed of the facilities for years. The college had a good relationship with the townspeople and people from the surrounding areas but they have been excluded all of a sudden. The local people depended on the college for facilities. The college is a public facility that has been paid for by...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (4 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I apologise to the Vice Chairman for stealing his thunder.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (4 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I recommend the same as the Vice Chairman. The facilities already exist but they are not being used properly now. It is always a good thing to maintain a good relationship between the Garda and local people. I urge the Garda to re-open the facilities or make them available again to the local community as soon as possible.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (4 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I told the Vice Chairman that I would be concise.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (9 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 261. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated amount it would cost the State to exclude maintenance payments from means assessment for social welfare payments; if he has previously investigated the feasibility of same; if he will consider this action as part of future budgets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21592/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures (9 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 263. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his short and long-term plans for the community employment and employment services and programmes, with particular reference to their benefits in rural areas; his plans for an increase or reduction in places on programmes in the short term; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21395/17]

Ireland and the Negotiations on the UK's Withdrawal from the EU: Statements (Resumed) (10 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I wish to share time with Deputy Murphy O'Mahony and Deputy Cahill.

Ireland and the Negotiations on the UK's Withdrawal from the EU: Statements (Resumed) (10 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Arguably, Brexit poses one of the biggest risks to farmers, exporters and jobs in the agrifood sector since the foundation of the State. According to a recent report by Bord Bia, the agrifood industry in Ireland has already lost up to €570 million in sterling depreciation. The depreciation alone threw the mushroom industry into turmoil, with the loss of €7 million in exports...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: When is Bord na gCon coming in?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Delays (16 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 256. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the delay in sending the file of a person (details supplied) relating to a carer's allowance claim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22832/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility (16 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 516. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the review of the entitlements of a person (details supplied) under the basic payment scheme allocated to them since 2002 will be expedited; if findings of the review will be furnished in an efficient manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23222/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (17 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: We know that.

Insurance Costs: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I only have two minutes, but I could speak for an hour were I to go into detail about some of the calls and emails I have received from distraught young people, their parents and many angry business owners about the scandalous rise in the cost of motor and business insurance. This is not a new issue. Fianna Fáil has long called for the Government to act on it. In 2014 motor insurance...

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I will cite an invitation that was given to all greyhound trainers on 17 September 2013. It spelled out what was wrong in the industry four years ago. According to it, people had been witness to the virtual collapse of the Irish greyhound industry in the preceding few years, with a decreasing tote, attendance level and dog pool evident. It asserts that the people administering the industry...

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: The board does not seem to be bringing stakeholders - breeders and racers - along with it. It is leaving them behind and not negotiating with them. It seems to be aloof in its decisions. The IGB cannot run a good business unless it brings those on whom it depends along with it. The IGB has lost the confidence of breeders and racers in the greyhound industry. That is my personal opinion...

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Do the witnesses accept that there is a great deal of unease and unrest in the business? Do they accept that people are angry and do not know in what direction the board is going? Perhaps Mr. Meaney would like to comment.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Hopefully.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: All going to plan, it will be debt free. Maybe in six months time.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I will press for a comment on the statement that a meeting had been told that the board had offered professional trainers a bonus of €10 for every dog. That would be elitist and a closed shop. Will Mr. Meaney explain that?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Bobby Aylward: There is no point in telling us that. It is up to the IGB to bring the industry together.