Results 6,081-6,100 of 10,573 for speaker:Patrick O'Donovan

Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Can we get details on all of the third level institutes with regard to who is on their audit committees, when they met last and how many times they have met?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (24 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 84. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her plans to review the criteria for qualifying for community employment schemes or JobBridge schemes in order to allow persons who receive a widow’s, widower’s or surviving civil partner’s pension to participate in these schemes to improve their employment prospects; and if she will make a statement on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Chairperson Designate (23 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I wish Mr. Gorman well. His credentials speak for themselves and I have no doubt he will make an excellent chairman of Inland Fisheries Ireland. I have a number of questions, but I am sure the chairman designate has been briefed by the CEO, Dr. Byrne, in regard to some of the concerns I raised previously with IFI. I welcome the chairman designate's assertion that the levels of employment...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Chairperson Designate (23 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: They would not agree on what day of the week it was, any more than they would would in Mayo and Galway, but I am sure the Chairman will sort out that problem. Add all of these competing interests together and what are forgotten are the fish, the marine and life on the river. It is amazing that there are fish in rivers, given the number of interests involved. Every single one of them has a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Chairperson Designate (23 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Could I get a reply to my question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Chairperson Designate (23 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Which one? Is it the question about the flooding at Athea?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Chairperson Designate (23 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I spoke about flooding and about the mish-mash of agencies. I also asked at what stage in a downward trajectory in fish levels does conservation kick in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Chairperson Designate (23 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Is that in the Feale or nationally?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Chairperson Designate (23 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Does Mr. Gorman agree with me that there should be a single Department dealing with fishing and a single agency dealing with fish?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Chairperson Designate (23 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: It is refreshing to hear that level of honesty about the agency structure and for a chairman designate to agree with us about the structural deficit. I would not say it if I did not believe it. Mr. Gorman’s honesty about the fiasco we have at the moment is refreshing.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries Data (23 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 144. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form the salmon counter figures from the counter at Scartleigh Dam on the River Feale from 1 January 2015 to date in 2015 on a month by month basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32427/15]

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy is a good measure of that.

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy does a good job of that herself.

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Not for the first time.

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: What about the suitcase full of cash? Back a horse.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Health Initiatives (22 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 1081. To ask the Minister for Health the action his Department has taken to highlight the existence of the cross-border health care directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31847/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: EU Directives (22 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 1080. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications received in respect of the Cross Border healthcare directive; the number of applications granted and country of treatment; if the information can be provided in tabular form for the years 2014 and 2015 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31846/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Tax Rates (22 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 1369. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to bridge the differential in commercial vehicle road tax between this jurisdiction and Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30630/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Schemes (22 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 1543. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the funding for the scheme operated by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland and local authorities to improve the energy performance of older local authority housing stock is to be cut by 40% in October 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31252/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Better Energy Homes Scheme (22 Sep 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 1545. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to extend the better energy warmer homes scheme administered through the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31434/15]