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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (23 Jun 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: 434. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the Health Service Executive plans to continue the provision of funding for special needs assistance support on an ad hoc basis, or to introduce a fair, transparent, nationwide system, that is in keeping with the principles of the Progressing Disability Services Strategy. [24757/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (23 Jun 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: 454. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive provides funding for the provision of special needs assistants; if so, if he will provide details of the basis on which funding is allocated; if he will provide in tabular form, by county, for 2014, the number of special needs assistants funded by the executive; the number funded in each county; and if he will make a...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (23 Jun 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: 544. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm that the Health Service Executive provides funding towards the provision of special needs assistants; that the executive plans to continue the provision of this funding on an ad hoc basis, or to introduce a fair, transparent, nationwide system, that is in keeping with the principles of the progressing disability services...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (23 Jun 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: 576. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when a new tenant purchase scheme will be introduced for council tenants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24491/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (23 Jun 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: 577. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the names of the estates submitted by Limerick City and County Council for consideration under any new tenant purchase scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24493/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (23 Jun 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: 578. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if one-bedroom and two-bedroom houses will be considered under any new tenant purchase scheme to be devised by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24495/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Transport Programme (23 Jun 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: 640. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if rural transport routes will be tendered for the coming number of months; if so, when this process will begin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24512/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Transport Programme Expenditure (23 Jun 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: 642. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current rate payable to operators servicing the rural transport network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24544/15]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Is there a mechanism to allow Members of the Oireachtas, who are not members of the Committee of Public Accounts, to bring concerns to the attention of the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General? Has the Comptroller and Auditor General received any expressions of concern from Members of the Oireachtas that something untoward might have happened in NAMA?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Is there a mechanism to receive that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: I welcome the officials. I want to turn to the appropriation accounts on which I have a number of questions. Section 5.1 deals with allowances and overtime payments. It sets out that 873 people were in receipt of overtime payments, with 83 receiving payments in excess of €10,000. The maximum payment was €35,519. Can the Department provide me with some guidance on that?...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: Is €35,519 not excessive? Could not another position have been created to avoid paying that level of overtime?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: What are the other 82 people on more than €10,000 per year in overtime payments doing?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: In the previous year, the maximum payment was €30,000. Was that payment made to the same person?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: According to the accounts, the maximum individual payment in 2012 was €30,835. In 2013, it was €35,519.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: Does the Secretary General agree that it is excessive?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: What basic salary is the individual on, given that the overtime is €35,000?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: It is about 80% more.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: Without labouring that individual, there are 82 other people on more than €10,000. What is the Department's plan to reduce that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: From what level has it been reduced? How many people were getting more than €10,000 in 2012?