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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Funding (5 Feb 2013)

John Deasy: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on her plans to introduce in 2013 a community employment-type scheme to assist councils in the upkeep of the country’s rural roads network; and if she intends to expedite such a scheme in view of the numbers of tourists expected to travel on Irish roads during The Gathering. [5979/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Derelict Sites (5 Feb 2013)

John Deasy: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of those properties excluding housing estate dwellings that were listed on the 2012 Derelict Buildings Register in each of the following local authority areas (details supplied). [5978/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Dormant Accounts Fund Grants (5 Feb 2013)

John Deasy: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of those County Waterford-based projects that have received moneys from the dormant accounts fund, through which Pobal, under the auspices of his Department, has dispensed more than €148 million to date. [5980/13]

Public Accounts Committee: Enterprise Ireland - Annual Report and Financial Statement 2011 (31 Jan 2013)

John Deasy: That is fair enough.

Public Accounts Committee: Enterprise Ireland - Annual Report and Financial Statement 2011 (31 Jan 2013)

John Deasy: Mr. Ryan has cited those figures and I accept them. I am talking about the unemployment figures, which speak for themselves. It is indisputable that some parts of this country are experiencing massive levels of unemployment. I am trying to get across the idea that, from a policy standpoint and based on those figures, the organisation needs to identify and accept that. I accept everything...

Public Accounts Committee: Enterprise Ireland - Annual Report and Financial Statement 2011 (31 Jan 2013)

John Deasy: I have one last question. It is appropriate that I should speak on behalf of my own constituency. This issue affects the western side of my county. Enterprise Ireland has been in talks with individuals who came together to put together a proposal to Enterprise Ireland for Cappoquin Chickens, the food processor. Effectively, the company brings commercial life into the west of the county....

Public Accounts Committee: Enterprise Ireland - Annual Report and Financial Statement 2011 (31 Jan 2013)

John Deasy: I want to impress on Mr. Ryan the singular importance of that operation to that part of the county because of the dearth of an industrial commercial base in that area. It is absolutely critical.

Public Accounts Committee: Enterprise Ireland - Annual Report and Financial Statement 2011 (31 Jan 2013)

John Deasy: What needs to happen?

Public Accounts Committee: Enterprise Ireland - Annual Report and Financial Statement 2011 (31 Jan 2013)

John Deasy: I wish to address with Mr. Ryan the proposal to amalgamate county and city enterprise boards within local authorities through the establishment of local enterprise offices. I voiced my concern about this on the floor of the Dáil and I am surprised others have not raised it. My experience of local authorities and their association with the commercial world is not good. The last place...

Public Accounts Committee: Enterprise Ireland - Annual Report and Financial Statement 2011 (31 Jan 2013)

John Deasy: My two cents is that local authorities are dysfunctional when it comes to the commercial world. Local enterprise offices should not be placed within local authorities at all. The role of Enterprise Ireland as a guardian of what occurs after the legislation is passed will be incredibly important. Local authorities are political organisations and are in many respects inefficient. They are...

Public Accounts Committee: Enterprise Ireland - Annual Report and Financial Statement 2011 (31 Jan 2013)

John Deasy: If Mr. Ryan does not mind, I will stick with Mr. O'Donnellan on that very relevant point. When one hears news reports about many AIB bank branches around the country not having computers or not being linked up to the Internet, one may not be surprised by what Mr. O'Donnellan has just said. People will be concerned about State-owned banks having that kind of skills deficit. He picked out...

Public Accounts Committee: Enterprise Ireland - Annual Report and Financial Statement 2011 (31 Jan 2013)

John Deasy: In respect of the more fundamental mainstream issue of lending in its purest sense, I know every company is different, as Mr. O'Donnellan explained. He spoke about the percentages with regard to companies with which Enterprise Ireland deals and the credit facilities they were given. Dealing with those three main banks, what kind of problems exist with regard to that element? Are companies...

Public Accounts Committee: Enterprise Ireland - Annual Report and Financial Statement 2011 (31 Jan 2013)

John Deasy: I am asking whether problems exist. What are the problems with our banking sector with regard to the fundamental issue of lending to these kind of companies?

Public Accounts Committee: Enterprise Ireland - Annual Report and Financial Statement 2011 (31 Jan 2013)

John Deasy: Mr. O'Donnellan also mentioned our competitors in other countries who have access to government-backed risk sharing schemes. Is there a deficit here with which we need to deal?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Services (31 Jan 2013)

John Deasy: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to encourage greater take up of broadband in view of the estimated 426,096 households here that have no internet connection, according to the 2011 census. [5014/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Alternative Energy Projects (31 Jan 2013)

John Deasy: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in the context of Ireland's newly signed Memorandum of Understanding with the UK for the export of wind generated electricity, the number of wind farm developments that have been granted planning permission, by county, over the past five years; the number of proposed wind farm developments that have been refused planning...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Incentives (31 Jan 2013)

John Deasy: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to help develop the wave energy sector in view of the fact that Ireland's ocean generated power potential is estimated to be enough to supply as much as three quarters of our energy requirements; the benefit that accrued from the €22 million set aside in 2009 for ocean energy development; and if he intends...

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

John Deasy: The specifics.

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

John Deasy: My presumption.

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

John Deasy: My main point concerns the economic situation in which a city such as Waterford finds itself and the impact of cutting rail services. I do not believe Irish Rail takes into account the overall effect this has on a city suffering a 25% unemployment rate. It is very significant. We have seen an alarming number of jobs and services leave the city in the past ten years and this needs to be...