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Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2014
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2014
Finance Accounts 2014 (3 Dec 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: If we strip that out, is everything else stagnant?

Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2014
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2014
Finance Accounts 2014 (3 Dec 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Thank you.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (3 Dec 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 113. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment under the basic payment scheme will be made to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43208/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Complaints Procedures (3 Dec 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 140. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the system in place to compensate or provide rectification to a person whose front door was broken and whose property was damaged as a result of action by An Garda Síochána. [43411/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (3 Dec 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 190. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulance cars in the mid-west area on a 24-hour roster; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43320/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (3 Dec 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 191. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulance cars nationally; the location of each; the number that are rostered 24 hours a day; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43323/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Broadband Service Provision (3 Dec 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure the roll-out of broadband to schools in an area (details supplied) in County Wicklow; when this roll-out will commence, the speed of the broadband being provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43202/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff Remuneration (3 Dec 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the payroll payment for substitute Special Needs Assistant duties will be made for a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43453/15]

Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: We know that.

Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: And me.

Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: -----that an attack of that nature would be made in the House. The reason I cannot agree with Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett’s amendment is that it undermines the entire thrust of the ports policy.

Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: As a member of the Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport, I want to speak about the Report Stage amendment that Deputy Boyd Barrett has tabled. The amendment cuts to the core of future development policy of the port infrastructure network throughout the country. During the tenure of the Minister, Deputy Paschal Donohoe, and that of his predecessor, we spent much time over a...

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Deputy Fitzmaurice had his chance to speak.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I welcome the guests. Is it not highly unlikely that the EPA would have been able to acquire expertise of this nature, which is so specific to a very narrow section of science and technology? Indeed, is it not highly unlikely that the expertise available would not be connected in some way to industry?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Would it not be fair to say that the vast majority of money being invested in research in this area is coming from the commercial sector and not from the state sector? Is it not in their interest to have the research?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I would like to ask Mr. Lynott about the relationship the EPA has with other environmental protection agencies on the matter. What level of engagement does it have with its EU counterparts or the US authorities on this? I look at this very coldly from an outsider's point of view. In the US, it is open season on fracking at the moment, which would not inspire confidence in a person who has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Even it is only water and air, as it is supposed to be, there is no indication as to what happens the geology on the way down. My biggest concern is that vein of territory, starting on the shores of Lough Derg in east Clare up to the border between Cavan and Fermanagh, is very susceptible to high levels of naturally-occurring radon which we can deal with if it is allowed to be emitted...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Would it be fair to say that the advice, if any, coming from the EPA in the US, is not carrying the same weight as that from the Europe because we are inside the shed and the horse is half a mile down the road?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Is it lax?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Is it not a bit unbelievable that the geology in Wyoming or Utah or Montana would be so different from the geology in Ballinamore or Virginia? That is unrealistic.