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Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 86 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Bord na gCon (27 Nov 2014)

Paul Connaughton: Who is giving the external validation?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 86 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Bord na gCon (27 Nov 2014)

Paul Connaughton: From whom?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 86 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Bord na gCon (27 Nov 2014)

Paul Connaughton: What is the cost of that service?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 86 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Bord na gCon (27 Nov 2014)

Paul Connaughton: When was that review completed?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 86 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Bord na gCon (27 Nov 2014)

Paul Connaughton: There is a massive financial problem here, and to be very honest, for the past hour, the witnesses have been a bit woolly on the detail of when deadlines and guidelines were going to be hit and the details of the rescue plan. Does Bord na gCon see itself as needing more State funding? Will the Government need to put in more money because of the financial hole?

Topical Issue Debate: Disability Support Services Expenditure (25 Nov 2014)

Paul Connaughton: I thank the Minister of State for her reply. I will ask two questions. If the HSE cannot work with the agencies to make savings without hitting front-line services, what will be the next step in the process? Is there any possibility of a change in Ability West's €156,000 reduction? How will it be rolled out? People are concerned about the effects on front-line services. What...

Topical Issue Debate: Disability Support Services Expenditure (25 Nov 2014)

Paul Connaughton: I thank the Minister of State for being here to take this debate today. We could not take it last Thursday. The funding provided to the Brothers of Charity and to Ability West in County Galway has been cut. I understand they received notification of this cut in October, even though it had been set out months previously. It seems that the cut stems from the Haddington Road agreement, under...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (25 Nov 2014)

Paul Connaughton: 238. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the investigations in relation to the disadvantaged area payment and single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway have been concluded; when it is envisaged they will receive these payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45161/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (25 Nov 2014)

Paul Connaughton: 374. To ask the Minister for Health when a doctor visit card allocated on 21 October 2014 will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the current delay in terms of issuing cards; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this family have been pursuing this matter for months before the DVC was granted and now they face further delays in terms of having to pay...

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2014)

Paul Connaughton: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the opportunity to speak on this. Much has been said already. As a first time backbench Deputy, I have found it frustrating waiting for yesterday's announcement. Much frustration has been building up over recent months among Labour and Fine Gael backbenchers and the general public over the lack of clarity and understanding of what Irish Water was going to do...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Eligibility (18 Nov 2014)

Paul Connaughton: 243. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a person (details supplied) in County Galway will be eligible for a single farm payment and a disadvantaged areas payment from 2015 onwards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44226/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Payments (18 Nov 2014)

Paul Connaughton: 244. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway has not received their disadvantaged area payment and single farm payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44227/14]

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Nov 2014)

Paul Connaughton: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on this Bill. There are many elements of it that I welcome, particularly the increase in child benefit and the living alone allowance. Other changes provided for in the Bill that do not require legislative change include the new water subsidy, the increase in JobsPlus places, extra funding for JobPath and additional funding for the school meals...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Applications (11 Nov 2014)

Paul Connaughton: 259. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment in respect of disadvantaged area payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42960/14]

Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2014)

Paul Connaughton: When we talk about the budget that has just been introduced, it is important to understand where we have come from in the past three years. Anyone who came in here in 2011 and saw the figures that were in front us knows that there were even some people in this House who were looking for sovereign default. The issue of a possible collapse of the euro also arose. It looked as though, if the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Payments (4 Nov 2014)

Paul Connaughton: 453. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason no payments have issued in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway in relation to disadvantaged area scheme or single farm payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41867/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services Provision (4 Nov 2014)

Paul Connaughton: 589. To ask the Minister for Health the dental screening services that are being given to primary school children in County Galway; the reason children are not being screened in second and fourth class when the Health Service Executive states that it provides dental screening to children in second, fourth and sixth classes; his plans to reinstate this service; and if he will make a statement...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: The witness calls this a competency based board. What was the first board called?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: It is a massive project. However, if one were to summarise the situation, it has lost a great deal of money so far and there have been three different boards. I am trying to ascertain how the people, whose money is going into it, can have confidence that this project will meet its deadlines, stay on budget and will not be subject to this loss again.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: I do not have an issue with that. Even for somebody building a house, a small project, somebody would be able to advise whether the project would fly. No matter what the expertise, it is extraordinary that somebody never said to wait as there could be a problem. All this money was spent only to find it would not work.