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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: I welcome that. It is very good news. Postmasters would be levitating with rage if the concept of putting it out to tender was there.

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 Rugby World Cup matches.

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 Rugby World Cup is currently being broadcast by TV3 but it does not have a €183 million cushion. It must sell advertising and generate its revenue streams, getting into a competitive market with RTE. It must come out by winning the rights, providing a public service broadcast remit. There is a massive imbalance there. Whether this is corrected through advertising or the...

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: I apologise for interrupting but 50% of the existing sound and vision scheme goes to RTE.

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: It was €3.5 million in 2014.

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: It must be taken up with the Department so.

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: Many of the broadcasters are not looking for a handout but rather a level playing field in advertising. Their advertising pool has been shrunk because a State-subsidised entity is hoovering up revenue in many cases in a very competitive advertising environment. That has been put on the table as being unfair. With regard to salaries, if Irish Water or the HSE had to get a technological...

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: I am waiting to see it reported.

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: I doubt that.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (7 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 144. To ask the Minister for Health when he will respond to correspondence, dated 19 June 2015, from this Deputy's concerning the funding deficit at an organisation (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34862/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction Services Provision (7 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 149. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make the provision of fertility treatment, specifically in vitro fertilisation and iIntracytoplasmic sperm injection, more readily available; the provisions that he will introduce to lessen the financial burden on couples who find themselves in the position of seeking these types of treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Capital Assistance Scheme Applications (7 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 189. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for an update and date for approval of an application for additional funding by a housing association (details supplied) in County Limerick under the capital assistance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34824/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Capital Assistance Scheme Applications (7 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 191. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when an application by an organisation (details supplied) under the capital assistance scheme will be approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34863/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Capital Assistance Scheme Applications (7 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 192. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when an application for a rehabilitation centre (details supplied) in County Limerick under the capital assistance scheme will be approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34864/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (7 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the preferred route for the Adare bypass will be announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34895/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Hedge Cutting Season (7 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 213. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No.666 of 10 February 2015, if there is an update from the working group regarding possible changes to hedge cutting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34936/15]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff Data (6 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 168. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide details of the numbers of supernumerary positions in his Department, and those agencies, organisations or bodies funded by his Department; the maximum period in each case that supernumerary positions have existed; the total cost in maintaining supernumerary positions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34149/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Staff Data (6 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 185. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will provide details of the numbers of supernumerary positions in her Department, and those agencies, organisations or bodies funded by her Department; the maximum period in each case that supernumerary positions have existed; the total cost in maintaining supernumerary positions; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (6 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 212. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an appeal made for an invalidity pension by a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; the time frame as to when a decision will be made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34369/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (6 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 230. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if a claim for a Disability Allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary will be assessed as a priority; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34588/15]