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Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Has the Department policies in place to prevent a recurrence?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: In his opening statement, Mr. McCarthy referred to the NOAC. How often has it met since being established?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Who is on it?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Does NOAC meet monthly?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Does it rely completely on the information sent to it by local authorities' audit committees?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Has it?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Did it find anything noteworthy?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Has it any priority to deal with inefficiency, waste or the parts of local authority budgets that are conveniently referred to as "miscellaneous"?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Is there someone from the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government on it?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Who is that?

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Vessels (25 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 15. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide details on the operations, to date, that the LÉ Eithne has been engaged with in the Mediterranean Sea; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24846/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (25 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 89. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding Capital Gains Tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25484/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (25 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 95. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide, in tabular form, for each year from 1985 to 2014, the rate of betting tax; the total turnover; the amount of betting duty collected; and the number of betting licences held; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25587/15]

Credit Unions: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (24 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I too am a member of a credit union, the Desmond credit union in Newcastle West. I know the work that is done at local level by the credit union movement. I do not disagree with Deputy Rabbitte on the ethos of the credit union movement. Deputies Heydon and Harrington had painful experiences of what happens when things go wrong in a credit union. This demonstrates the benefits of...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care Education (23 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 387. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to address the concerns of parents regarding the future of the ability of children with disabilities to avail of the free early childhood care and education year, as without adequate support, there are concerns by some parents that children with complex special educational needs will be unable to access appropriate mainstream...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care Education (23 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 390. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to provide a free early childhood care and education year for those children with a disability, by county; the number of places, by county, for children with physical disabilities and learning difficulties, ranging from moderate to severe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24895/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (23 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 433. To ask the Minister for Health the areas of the country in which the Health Service Executive provides funding towards the provision of special needs assistance support; and if the support is provided directly by the executive or through a third party. [24756/15]

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...