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Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

John Deasy: I will move on but stay in the realm of discretion. Last week the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission issued a report with regard to information as it related to a convicted drug dealer and the dealings of An Garda Síochána in garnering information from that individual. I have a general question to begin with. What are the rules for dealing with people who give...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

John Deasy: I welcome the Commissioner and his colleagues. I wish to start with the penalty points issue which has been raised recently. I am sure other members will also wish to make reference to it. As of now, I understand three gardaí face disciplinary proceedings over the quashing of penalty points, that is, three out of the 113 officers involved. The assistant commissioner has found no...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2013)

John Deasy: Was the meeting with the IDA postponed previously? Is this the second time it was postponed?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2013)

John Deasy: This is the second time it has postponed this. When was the last time the IDA was in here?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2013)

John Deasy: It is a long time. My wanting its representatives to come in is not germane to the financial accountability of its budget but I would like to see the IDA before us. It has delayed and postponed meetings.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (16 May 2013)

John Deasy: 243. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the level of Exchequer funding the Foróige organisation has received in Waterford City and county in each of the past five years. [23490/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (16 May 2013)

John Deasy: 244. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of full and part-time Foróige staff employed in Waterford each year over the past five years; and the total staff hours involved per year. [23491/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (16 May 2013)

John Deasy: 245. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total Exchequer funding allocated to Foróige nationally in each of the past five years; and the number ofForóige groups that received funding, by county, in each of those years. [23492/13]

Topical Issue Debate: Commercial Rates Calculations (15 May 2013)

John Deasy: The Minister has answered the question. Clarity was required on the issue and the Minister has provided it. He has made it clear what will happen in the case of Dungarvan or any town council. This is a also big issue in Cork and throughout the country. Because of local government reform, the abolition of town councils and the amalgamation of various local authorities, the rumour mill has...

Topical Issue Debate: Commercial Rates Calculations (15 May 2013)

John Deasy: I thank the Minister.

Topical Issue Debate: Commercial Rates Calculations (15 May 2013)

John Deasy: I tabled this matter due to the level of uncertainty regarding the setting of commercial rates following the announcement of the abolition of town councils and the amalgamation of certain local authorities. I started by submitting a parliamentary question, in which I asked the Department to list all of the country's annual rates on valuations, ARVs. There are extraordinary differences...

Leaders' Questions (15 May 2013)

John Deasy: Dusty shelves, Deputy Kelleher, dusty shelves.

Good Friday Agreement: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2013)

John Deasy: I could not help noticing some contradictions buried in the motion. Sinn Féin is trying to give the impression that it is the honest broker trying to deliver on an agreement that was made 15 years ago and that it is somehow the party that wishes to move on and leave the past behind. It seeks to do so, however, purely on its terms. The line in the motion that caught my attention was a...

Good Friday Agreement: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2013)

John Deasy: Where was the substantive engagement in his refusal to attend? Sinn Féin, in opposing the visit of the Queen, stated it would cause great offence to many Irish citizens. That was not the case. Where was the renewal of substantive engagement when the Queen visited? If one digs a little deeper, one finds double-speak gushing from the motion. The text refers to "respect and equality...

Good Friday Agreement: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2013)

John Deasy: The classic example of differing policies North and South is Sinn Féin's opposition to the household charge in this State. In Northern Ireland, the party supports taxes on the household, where people pay at least £500 per annum in rates. Sinn Féin is part and parcel of an administration in the North that will introduce water rates at the start of next year. Its position on...

Good Friday Agreement: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2013)

John Deasy: It refuses to co-operate properly with tribunals established in this State and wants loyalist flags taken down in Belfast while refusing to take down its flags in Armagh. It refuses to name members who have committed crimes North and South of the Border, take its seats in Westminster or engage substantively with the House of Commons or British Government. The motion, however, refers to...

Good Friday Agreement: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2013)

John Deasy: Given Sinn Féin's track record of obstruction and negativity, its calls for substantive engagement are difficult to take. I would like some proof of its substantive engagement because I have not seen any thus far.

Fodder Crisis: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 May 2013)

John Deasy: Fianna Fáil kicked it down the road for ten years.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (7 May 2013)

John Deasy: 371. To ask the Minister for Health if he is concerned at the decision of the Health Service Executive to refuse funding, on economic grounds, for the drug Pirfenidone, which is the only effective treatment for lung fibrosis, a rare and extremely debilitating disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21990/13]

Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)

John Deasy: It never happened when Deputy Martin was in government.