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Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (6 Feb 2019)

Patrick O'Donovan: I took the opportunity earlier to refer to procurement contracts. I will not repeat what I said but it is the advice of the Attorney General that procurement law applies to all bodies and that rather than specifying that in Bill that we would delete it because it would cause confusion for everybody else. Regarding amendment No. 20, the governance board is technical in nature and that was a...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (6 Feb 2019)

Patrick O'Donovan: No.

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (6 Feb 2019)

Patrick O'Donovan: Amendments Nos. 14 to 18, inclusive, are technical amendments to section 44, which relates to the personal data access portal. Amendment No. 14 is a minor rewording of the provisions for users to view data sharing agreements, and taken with amendment No. 15, to move the text to section 44(2)(c), which is a more appropriate location for it. Amendments Nos. 16 to 18, inclusive, are technical...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (6 Feb 2019)

Patrick O'Donovan: No.

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (6 Feb 2019)

Patrick O'Donovan: This is a technical amendment to delete the Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company from the Schedule to the Bill. As Senators are no doubt aware, the Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company was dissolved on 3 October 2018 and its assets and liabilities transferred to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. Since the company is no longer in existence, we have removed it from the Schedule.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (5 Feb 2019)

Patrick O'Donovan: 239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the parts of the primary and secondary level curriculums in which the protection of mental health is taught; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5286/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (31 Jan 2019)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy can go on the next trip over.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (31 Jan 2019)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy jumped into a photo with the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy.

Juvenile Crime: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2019)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 1:To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann:" and substitute the following: “notes that the Interim Report from the Garda Commissioner to the Policing Authority on the handling of youth crime cases during the period 25th July, 2010 to 28th July, 2017 has identified serious failings within An Garda Síochána, including failure to process the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Funding (30 Jan 2019)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Minister's statement which I have circulated to the Dáil answers all of Deputy Ó Laoghaire's questions.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Funding (30 Jan 2019)

Patrick O'Donovan: The reason the price and the tendering costs have increased is because there is a redesign and I presume that redesign is as a result of the city council's own engagement in it. I assume no one would suggest now that it should be redesigned backwards and that somehow money should be taken out of the project. On the specifics of the tender, I am in the Department of Public Expenditure and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Funding (30 Jan 2019)

Patrick O'Donovan: -----is suggesting that a coach and four should be driven through tendering requirements. The Minister also outlined in the response to the House that discussions have taken place between her Department and the city council.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Funding (30 Jan 2019)

Patrick O'Donovan: All representatives of the Cork city and county area, including my colleagues in government, the Minister of State, Deputy Stanton, who is present, the Tánaiste, the Minister, Deputy Creed, and others, are very anxious that this will go ahead. It is not only a project for Cork; it is a project for Munster. As a Limerick person, I am anxious that it happens as well. The Minister,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Funding (30 Jan 2019)

Patrick O'Donovan: As I said at the outset, and I am sure the Deputy appreciates that I am deputising for the Minister, who is out of the country, if he has other questions they could be raised by way of written or oral parliamentary question.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Funding (30 Jan 2019)

Patrick O'Donovan: I thank Deputy Ó Laoghaire for raising this matter. I apologise on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Deputy Madigan, who is abroad on official business today. I presume the House will accept her bona fides on that. I am sure there are other avenues the Deputy will use to raise this issue in the House, including by way of parliamentary...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Jan 2019)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy will be on Radio Kerry tomorrow.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Jan 2019)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy has grabbed the headlines for Radio Kerry.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Jan 2019)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy will make the 1 o'clock news.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (23 Jan 2019)

Patrick O'Donovan: 245. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if matters in relation to a person (details supplied) will be addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3280/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electric Vehicle Grants (22 Jan 2019)

Patrick O'Donovan: 511. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the schemes available if a person wishes to purchase an electric car; the incentives in place to purchase an electric car; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2475/19]