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Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: It is only Deputy Mattie McGrath.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (13 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 17. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on a review of an application for a disability allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35366/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Clearance Certificates (13 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 47. To ask the Minister for Finance when the Revenue Commissioners will issue a tax clearance certificate to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35306/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax (13 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 52. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm who is liable for the local property tax for 2015, if a property was sold on 24 November 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35405/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax (13 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 53. To ask the Minister for Finance if the local property tax is paid in arrears or if it is charged going forward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35407/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Rebates (13 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 62. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding a rebate on the usage of diesel and petrol by disabled drivers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35669/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (13 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 122. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a payment under the agri-environment options scheme 3 has not issued to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; when it will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35446/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Nitrates Action Programme Implementation (13 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 414. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to extend the slurry spreading dates to reduce costs on farmers. [35350/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Nitrates Usage (13 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 414. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to extend the slurry spreading dates to reduce costs on farmers. [35350/15]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Very briefly, on the concept of supernumerary positions, this is the first time it has come up regarding the positions in LIT. I received recently correspondence from the HSE stating it is unable to provide information on the number of supernumerary positions, if any. Does the Comptroller and Auditor General examine this in the other organisations he audits? It hit the headlines when it...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: This is the question I wanted to get to, because the HSE told me it does not provide details of staff who may be in supernumerary positions. Based on the LIT experience, do we have any indication as to how many more of these types of positions there are in the public sector whereby people turn up for work who do not have a job?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I agree with the Chairman. There is a reputational issue for the University of Limerick and it is in everybody's interest that it be clarified as soon as possible. These allegations are serious and have been around for a while, so the sooner either the Comptroller and Auditor General or the committee itself deals with this the better.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Is Mr. McCarthy satisfied that those control lapses are being dealt with?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Last week, when NAMA was before the committee, its representatives went through the numbers of social housing units that had been allocated to local authorities, particularly in the Dublin region, but which had been refused. Would it be possible to get a report from the CEOs of the four Dublin local authorities on why, in the context of what is on the news every day, they refused the houses...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Data (8 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 40. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the average cost of each jobseeker's allowance claim for each of the years from 2011 to date in 2015 ; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35052/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Live Register Data (8 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 41. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the differing exit rates from the live register in 2015 to date in tabular form for single persons who are over 26 years of age and who are under 26 years of age on reduced rates; for persons with adult dependents and with adult and child dependents; and for single parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35053/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Live Register Data (8 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 42. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of persons on the live register in September 2011 and September 2015 in tabular form who are single claimants over 26 years of age and who are under 26 years of age on reduced rates; who have adult dependants or adult and child dependants; and who are single parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit Payments (8 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 43. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the cost of extending jobseeker's benefit to the self-employed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35055/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (7 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: On the broadcasting remit, I welcome the Minister's presence at the committee. I have a huge concern about taking any aspect of the television licence away from An Post. I would not like it to go out from the committee that we were in any way suggesting that. The television licence represents a massive part of An Post's basic income stream. We have had an awful lot of people jumping up...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (7 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Minister could do a lot of us a favour. The suggestion was made by a member from the Opposition, but it would do a lot of us a favour if the Minister was to kill that now. The Minister knows my views on the television licence. I never suggested a redistribution of the television licence. There is a massive anomaly in public service broadcasting funding. I do not distinguish...