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- 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: That is my experience of it. We have mentioned a whole range of areas here where Mr. Griffin used the term KPI - key performance indicators. I do not understand why An Post cannot be more strategic for the future of the post office network - people are going to use them or they are not. Is it up to the public to put back these individual post offices? Over the past four years I have heard...
- 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: Is that where the help of the Department will come?
- 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: Thank you.
- Topical Issue Debate: Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage (13 May 2015)
Paul Connaughton: I thank the Ceann Comhairle's office for selecting this matter for the Topical Issue debate and I thank the Minister of State for being present to take it. When it was selected I had a four-minute speech prepared outlining the background to this issue and then I thought what is the point of doing that as anybody who does any background check will find all the parliamentary questions that...
- Topical Issue Debate: Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage (13 May 2015)
Paul Connaughton: I thank the Minister of State for her response, but the concern of MS sufferers all over the country is that her response has not changed a lot in the past six or 12 months. I have raised the issue again today and while I understand negotiations to which I am not privy have concluded, it appears that we have not moved even one little bit. I ask the Minister of State to give some indication...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Delays (26 May 2015)
Paul Connaughton: 246. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for a Carer's Allowance will be processed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; if she is aware of the economic hardship being caused by the delay in processing applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20719/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (26 May 2015)
Paul Connaughton: 385. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive a payment for 2014 under the agri-environment options scheme; the reason for the delay; the reason farmers were informed in reply to questions in Dáil Éireann that payment would be made as soon as possible, when no payment has yet issued as of mid-May 2015;...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (26 May 2015)
Paul Connaughton: 386. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive a payment under the Agri-Environment Options Scheme; the reason for the delay; the reason farmers were informed, in reply to questions in Dáil Éireann, that payment would be made as soon as possible, when no payment has yet issued, as of mid May 2015; and if...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (26 May 2015)
Paul Connaughton: 387. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive the remainder of a payment for 2013 and a payment for 2014 under the Agri-Environment Options Scheme; the reason for the delay; the reason farmers were informed, in reply to questions in Dáil Éireann, that payment would be made as soon as possible, when no...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Applications (26 May 2015)
Paul Connaughton: 388. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the options that are open to a person who missed out on a Single Payment in 2013, because a herd number was not transferred in time for the 2013 deadline, following the death of a parent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20104/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Environmental Schemes (26 May 2015)
Paul Connaughton: 401. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a person who purchased land in October 2014 can apply under the green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme, as the person did not receive a single payment in 2014 due to caring for a relative at the time; if there are any special or force majeure circumstances under which a person who did not receive a payment under the scheme...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (26 May 2015)
Paul Connaughton: 428. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive a payment under the 2014 agri-environment options scheme; the reason for the delay; the reason farmers were informed, in reply to questions in Dáil Éireann, that payment would be made as soon as possible, when no payment has yet issued as of late May 2015;...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Payments (26 May 2015)
Paul Connaughton: 429. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the special nature of commonage and hill farming is taken into account in the administration of the beef genomics scheme, especially in cases where farmers (details supplied) were unable to access animals for a period to get samples; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20613/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Drainage Schemes (26 May 2015)
Paul Connaughton: 954. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the river Suck drainage scheme employees; his plans for the drainage works on the river for 2015, and beyond; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20257/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (27 May 2015)
Paul Connaughton: 52. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason the work allowance for persons on jobseeker's transitional is €60 whereas the work allowance for one-parent family payment is €90; if a case can be made for a single parent who formerly received the one-parent family payment, but who now receives the jobseeker's transitional payment, to continue to receive the work...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 10 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 11 - Control of Supplementary Welfare Allowances
Chapter 12 - Farm Assist
Social Insurance Fund 2013 (28 May 2015) Paul Connaughton: I welcome Ms O'Donoghue. I only have a few brief questions because many of the questions I wanted to ask have already been covered. Deputy Perry mentioned CE schemes earlier. How many people are currently involved in CE schemes throughout the country?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 10 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 11 - Control of Supplementary Welfare Allowances
Chapter 12 - Farm Assist
Social Insurance Fund 2013 (28 May 2015) Paul Connaughton: How many are on RSS, the rural social scheme?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 10 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 11 - Control of Supplementary Welfare Allowances
Chapter 12 - Farm Assist
Social Insurance Fund 2013 (28 May 2015) Paul Connaughton: How many are on Tús?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 10 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 11 - Control of Supplementary Welfare Allowances
Chapter 12 - Farm Assist
Social Insurance Fund 2013 (28 May 2015) Paul Connaughton: Over the past number of years, CE schemes, by their nature, have changed more to labour activation, if I am correct. I want to follow up on the point Deputy Perry made earlier. Like all public representatives, we are contacted by people who would love to do an extra year or two on a scheme and, obviously, the rules have tightened up quite a lot. There are people who come to me at the ages...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 10 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 11 - Control of Supplementary Welfare Allowances
Chapter 12 - Farm Assist
Social Insurance Fund 2013 (28 May 2015) Paul Connaughton: How many community employment supervisors are there?