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Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (9 Jul 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I know that. We also know a letter was received. The company was instrumental in introducing NAMA to two potential investors interested in the NAMA loan book.

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (9 Jul 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I am not suggesting that it was. I want to find out if there were further representations made by the Department of Finance and Personnel and the former Minister, Mr. Sammy Wilson, about these two parties and whether they were successful.

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (9 Jul 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I know that.

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (9 Jul 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: If the Comptroller and Auditor General received a complaint from a Member of the Oireachtas, is he satisfied that he has the necessary resources and expertise to investigate it?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (9 Jul 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 267. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to the recent announcement by Eircom for improved broadband service in parts of County Limerick, if a townland (details supplied) in County Limerick is included; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28032/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Natural Heritage (9 Jul 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 281. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures that are being taken to halt the loss of native plant biodiversity, given the increase occurrence of cases of invasive species such as giant hogweed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28024/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (8 Jul 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 186. To ask the Minister for Health the funding his Department or the Health Service Executive provide to organisations for the provision of health-related telephone support services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27938/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pension Provisions (8 Jul 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in County Wexford has an entitlement to a pension from her Department, or a refund of payments made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27939/15]

Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: What about the 191 reports when the Deputy was Minister?

Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: What about the 191 reports and the €16 million that was wasted?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Levy (7 Jul 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 141. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will revert to this Deputy on the points raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27439/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Interdepartmental Working Groups (7 Jul 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 603. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of times, including dates, that the threat response plan team for the hen harrier habitat has met in each of the years 2011 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; if she will provide details of the membership of the team, including the agency or body the member in question represents; the attendance record of each member for each...

Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: They just want to take attention away from the banking inquiry.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Deputy Stanley is the only Member in the House at the moment at whom I am really surprised. He was a member of Laois County Council and knows what it is like for people to have wells that are contaminated. As I do every week, I am sure he fills out forms for people looking for water softeners, for iron to be withdrawn from wells, for UV lamps to be bought and for pumps to be replaced. He...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: This is on the amendment.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: It is the water conservation grant that the Deputies opposite are vociferously opposing.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: It is a water conservation grant. The Deputy should let me finish the point I am making.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Deputy Stanley will know from his membership of Laois County Council the difficulties for people in rural areas in terms of conserving their water. Every time a pipe is broken between the water meter at the end of the laneway and the bulk tank in the farmyard, that meter is still spinning around. Deputy Coppinger wants to shove up the price of water for commercial users - the farmers and...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Enough is enough as far as I am concerned on this issue. This is long overdue, probably 50 years overdue. Many people became secretaries of group water schemes and went to knock on their neighbours' doors to ask for small contributions to dig the road, to get the road opening licence and to lay the pipework with voluntary labour because the local authorities could not afford it because they...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: This is the first time in the history of the State that they have got anything. I welcome the Government's decision to give people something back. I welcome that the water conservation grant will do a small amount in terms of enhancing those people's positions in the delivery of water services on which they have been failed by local authorities under successive governments. This is not...