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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)

Pat Breen: The Senator is assuming that something went wrong.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)

Pat Breen: According to the e-mail received from the Department on 22 January, the situation remains as outlined in the letter of 23 October 2013 and the remaining 50% balance of €130,000 for the emigrant support programme grant awarded to the IIIC was paid in December. If something specific was wrong, the Department would conduct its own internal investigation. We are assuming something we do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)

Pat Breen: We are undermining the Department by suggesting it overlooked something.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)

Pat Breen: I will make contact with the Department personally to clarify the issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)

Pat Breen: Allow me to check with the Department first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)

Pat Breen: If the Senator does not mind, I will contact the Department first and I will report back to him next week. If he wishes to write to the IIIC at that stage -----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)

Pat Breen: If the committee so decides, we will write to the IIIC.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)

Pat Breen: Excuse me, I made a ruling on how I will deal with the matter. I have finished with it and ask that we move on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)

Pat Breen: Senator Jim Walsh reminded me that we received apologies from Deputy Brendan Smith.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)

Pat Breen: I remind members and those in the Visitors Gallery to ensure their mobile phones are switched off completely for the duration of the meeting because they cause interference with the recording equipment in committee rooms even in silent mode. The main item on our agenda is the work of the Passport Office. I am delighted that we are joined by Mr. Joseph Nugent, director of passport services...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)

Pat Breen: It is good that our passports are becoming more secure so that we can catch up with fraudsters.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services Waiting Lists (29 Jan 2014)

Pat Breen: 175. To ask the Minister for Health to set out his proposals to assist in reducing the long waiting lists for orthodontic care in the mid-west region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4354/14]

Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (28 Jan 2014)

Pat Breen: The biggest threat to the health service of our nation is the doom and gloom merchants on the Opposition benches who constantly question the Government's record on health, despite their party's dreadful record in that Department. It is acknowledged that 2014 will be another challenging year for the health services, in particular, taking into account the savings of €619 million which...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (28 Jan 2014)

Pat Breen: 277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to introduce an apprentice student service charge; the implications that the introduction of such a charge would have for the aircraft maintenance industry at Shannon Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3995/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (28 Jan 2014)

Pat Breen: 377. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for invalidity pension appeal will be processed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3775/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals (28 Jan 2014)

Pat Breen: 378. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a domiciliary allowance appeal will be processed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3776/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (28 Jan 2014)

Pat Breen: 404. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on a domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3973/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals (28 Jan 2014)

Pat Breen: 441. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on a domiciliary care allowance appeal will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4264/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Payments (28 Jan 2014)

Pat Breen: 453. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when payment of bog compensation will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4262/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Appeals (28 Jan 2014)

Pat Breen: 612. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision on a single payment scheme appeal will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3717/14]