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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: CIE Group Financial Situation: Discussion with Group Management (18 Jul 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: What about the €20 million from Spencer Dock?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: CIE Group Financial Situation: Discussion with Group Management (18 Jul 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: What about the management costs that have been reduced in each of the four companies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Rural Transport Programme: Discussion with National Transport Authority (23 Jul 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: I acknowledge the presence of the representatives of the National Transport Authority. I hope the knowledge that local administrators have will be retained. In my area the administrators do more than just make sure a bus turns up. In some cases they are socially connected to the people in the sense that if a person is missing from a particular service they are often the first to alert the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Rural Transport Programme: Discussion with National Transport Authority (23 Jul 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: That is not necessarily the case. If someone is from Shannon Banks or Westbury in Limerick, which is part of County Clare, they are expected to know Doolin, Lisdoonvarna and Lahinch, yet they are in a suburb of Limerick city. That is ridiculous. They will never go to those areas.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Rural Transport Programme: Discussion with National Transport Authority (23 Jul 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: Mr. Murphy's knowledge test, by his own admission, is covering areas that people do not physically cover.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Rural Transport Programme: Discussion with National Transport Authority (23 Jul 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: No. It covers the functional geographical area of the local authority. In the case of Limerick, it covers all of the county of Limerick and Limerick city. If someone lives in Montpelier across the bridge from O'Brien's Bridge, which is less than a third of a mile, his or her knowledge test will include areas such as Athea and Abbeyfeale but not O'Brien's Bridge, Ogonnelloe or Clonlara,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Rural Transport Programme: Discussion with National Transport Authority (23 Jul 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: No. It is not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Rural Transport Programme: Discussion with National Transport Authority (23 Jul 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: I do not want to hog the meeting, Chairman, but that is not the case. The area knowledge test does not cover that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Rural Transport Programme: Discussion with National Transport Authority (23 Jul 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: The reason for the huge failure rates is that what Mr. Murphy requires as a chief executive officer in terms of the knowledge test is not what is being delivered. There is a major problem in that regard.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Rural Transport Programme: Discussion with National Transport Authority (23 Jul 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: If that were done, the second issue would no longer exist. I am certain people are being deprived of having a licence by the knowledge test. If the knowledge test reflects the area in which the person serves, we will not require the second system.

Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: Brian Dobson did that last night on "Six-One".

Order of Business (18 Sep 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy was worn out from reforming.

Order of Business (18 Sep 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: Fourteen years.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Collection (18 Sep 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: 204. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the local property tax deduction from a pension has not commenced in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; the action being taken to rectify this backlog; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37804/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Applications (18 Sep 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: 456. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the Office of Public Works Enniscorthy flood relief scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38025/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Wildlife Conservation (18 Sep 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: 723. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide details in tabular form by location of the number of hen harrier birds in each of the SPA's Slieve Aughty, Slieve Beagh, Slieve Bloom, Boggeragh, Sleive Felim and Mullagareik that his Department are aware of; the number of individual land-holdings and landowners within the boundaries of these areas; the number of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Compliance (18 Sep 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: 946. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider the introduction of a scheme under local authorities, where Clerks of Works assigned to local authorities inspect building developments at regular intervals to ensure that construction projects comply with the relevant planning permission and make the information of those inspections available to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Private Home Care Provision (18 Sep 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: 1478. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown in tabular form by county, year and by care company of the amount of money spent by the Health Service Executive in the delivery of private home care for elderly persons and vulnerable adults in their own homes from 2007 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38074/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Private Home Care Provision (18 Sep 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: 1479. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce legislation to cover minimum standards, complaints procedures, reporting mechanisms, inspection procedures and other issues as he sees fit, for the protection of elderly persons and vulnerable adults who are cared for in their own homes by public and or private organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38075/13]

Order of Business (19 Sep 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: In the aftermath of last year's budget, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform gave a commitment to address the anomaly that is the unvouched and untaxed leaders' allowance for Independent Deputies and Senators. When will the promised legislation to deal with the anomaly come before the House?