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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility (22 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 77. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding entitlements in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15944/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (22 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 83. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide details, in tabular form, by court area and month to date in 2015, of the number of speed detection summonses which have been struck out in courts; the number of those which have been struck out because the person in question used the defence of not receiving the notice of the penalty points in the post; and if she will make...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (22 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 123. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade How a person who is 16 years of age, who is living in Thailand for the past 14 years, but was born here (details supplied) can go about applying for an Irish passport. [15942/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (21 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 243. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will allow an appeal to be heard for an overpayment of rent supplement in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15315/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Education (21 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 480. To ask the Minister for Health if the review of the nursing adaption programme 2015 by Nursing Homes Ireland, Health Service Executive, and the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, which was due to take place in February 2015, has been completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15472/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Administration (21 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 577. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, in tabular form, by county, the number of schools that have applied for additional funding due to the extra costs associated with the new building regulations that were introduced, in view of the fact that the original awards were not sufficient; the extra funding, in tabular form, that has been sought by each school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (21 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 578. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a grant awarded for building additional accommodation in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15270/15]

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I am a relatively new member of the committee and what I have heard this morning is staggeringly unbelievable as regards the level of incompetence with taxpayers' money in the organisation over a period of time. This sum is probably at the lower level in the context of the amount that the Comptroller and Auditor General normally deals with, but there was no control of any description. Did...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I know that. Was the Minister told?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: A whistleblower makes an allegation to the Department-----

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: -----through a convoluted web and the Department, at some stage, realises that there is a problem and that €2 million has vanished into thin air, but nobody thought it important enough to tell the Minister.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I know that; we have heard that several times.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I know that. However, when the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources became aware of it, realised it was a problem and took action, although the action it took was very limited, why did it not tell the Minister?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Comptroller and Auditor General has produced a report which Mr. Griffin is before the Committee of Public Accounts today to discuss. Surely somebody in the Department, in advance of this meeting, would have deemed it important to find out whether the Minister of the day was apprised of the situation.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Chairman, it is unbelievable that the Accounting Officer of a Department does not know if the Minister of the day was told that €2.3 million of taxpayers' money vanished into a vanity project that was never going to be-----

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: With respect, the difference is that Ministers get fired. The Chairman asked Mr. Griffin earlier who had been fired because of this, and Mr. Griffin said nobody had been. Ministers are the people who ultimately carry the can for public expenditure. With the greatest respect, Mr. Griffin will not be held to the same level of accountability as a Minister. I feel as if I am on the set of an...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: That analysis was so forensic that we do not know where the racks are, we do not know how Deloitte managed to pluck €1.3 million out of the sky as it appears to have done in an economic appraisal, we do not have an invoice and it was also so forensic that all these years later we do not know if the Minister was told.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: From what we have heard so far, we are aware that the whistleblower was in some way connected with the company that purchased these things, so one would imagine that he would have known what the true value of these items was. He put a figure of €30,000 on it.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: In other words, its examination of the matter was not as forensic as we might have been led to believe?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: The review just looked at the issue of eligibility; it did not look at the outcome. We do not know where the racks are or whether they have any scrap value. We do not know who owns them or whether we will get anything back for the taxpayer. We are left with a lot of unanswered questions. It has cost £30,000 in investigations to get to this point.