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- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (22 Apr 2015)
Paul Connaughton: 137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 681 of 15 April 2015, if a more comprehensive reply will issue as the question in relation to the particular school (details supplied) in County Galway was never addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15933/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Generation (22 Apr 2015)
Paul Connaughton: 173. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the proposals the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources has for renewables and, in particular, solar renewable energy, in the next 12 months; his views on solar energy on greenfield sites; if any such sites are currently being developed; the proposed policy direction of solar energy production on...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Apr 2015)
Paul Connaughton: Yesterday, there was a report in the newspaper about a savings protection scheme run by the credit union movement. The credit unions paid into a fund to help other credit unions and it has been in existence for a number of years. I raise it in the context that the Credit Union Restructuring Board, ReBo, came before the committee some months ago. ReBo uses taxpayers' money to help credit...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Apr 2015)
Paul Connaughton: I would like to mention one final matter. Last week, we spoke about the meeting on Government procurement that was attended by representatives of the Small Firms Association. I know they came back and said they were confused about who they will meet. Has that changed? Have they contacted the Irish Schools Art Supply Federation to say they will meet it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Apr 2015)
Paul Connaughton: Yes.
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments (28 Apr 2015)
Paul Connaughton: 180. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway has not received a rural environment protection scheme payment; the cause of the delay; when the payment will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16474/15]
- Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (29 Apr 2015)
Paul Connaughton: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on the spring economic statement. To be honest, I was not sure what the spring statement was all about yesterday but I see now that it is allowing us to have a general conversation about the upcoming budget which is still many months away. The spring statement is only as effective as what happens in the next few months, that is, if there is genuine...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (30 Apr 2015)
Paul Connaughton: 106. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment under the agri-environment options scheme will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17013/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (30 Apr 2015)
Paul Connaughton: 107. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that farmers currently restricted with incidences of tuberculosis are fast-tracked in terms of outstanding agri-environment options scheme payments, in view of the hardship that they are currently enduring and the lack of cashflow available to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17014/15]
- Challenges Facing the European Union: Statements (Resumed) (7 May 2015)
Paul Connaughton: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for the opportunity to contribute to this debate on the challenges facing the European Union. From the outset it is important to state that I am supportive of what membership of the European Union has achieved for us over many years and its potential into the future. However, that is not to say it works perfectly for everyone all the time. It is important...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Eligibility (7 May 2015)
Paul Connaughton: 84. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a second penalty has been imposed on a single payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway, when a previous penalty was dealt with through an appeal. [17971/15]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 May 2015)
Paul Connaughton: In relation to that meeting, while we would hope to be able to discuss it at that time, given the angle that it appears we can come from, will we be able to get the people who might know a lot more about it from within the special unit? Will it be possible to bring them in to answer questions at that time?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 May 2015)
Paul Connaughton: I did not get a chance to ask yesterday, but I imagine the cases have come up previously in another committee or elsewhere in the Houses of the Oireachtas. Has the matter come up and has work already been done? We do not want to cover old ground if information already exists on which we can work.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015) Paul Connaughton: The majority of issues have been covered. Deputy Perry mentioned ECAS. Why is there such a variation in the number of calls the Department was expecting and the number which there actually were? Who was involved in the calculation and how did such a disparity occur?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015) Paul Connaughton: How many were hoax calls?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015) Paul Connaughton: Mr. Griffin does not have a figure for hoax calls.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015) Paul Connaughton: Does he know the cost attributed to them?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015) Paul Connaughton: A cost can be attributed to it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015) Paul Connaughton: Has anything ever been done to get that money back from those callers to the emergency line?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015) Paul Connaughton: Does the Department ever follow up with the Garda to see if that is done? It is a cost to the State.