Results 7,001-7,020 of 10,573 for speaker:Patrick O'Donovan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Prices: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Has the company requested a discussion?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Prices: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Have they refused?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Prices: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: I do not disagree. Have the companies requested meetings with the Departments of Public Expenditure and Reform and Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, on this issue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Prices: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Have the companies met the Departments?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Prices: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: I have noted the increase. In 2012 an individual company paid €167,000 to Limerick County Council and this cost has now risen to €557,000. That is an astronomical amount yet some people are suggesting that they should carry the burden of Irish Water on top of that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Prices: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: How does one shut a wind farm?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Prices: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Is it dismantled?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Prices: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Is it fair to say that the responses from the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resource and the Department of Public Expenditure, have been less than favourable?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Prices: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Is that a "Yes" or a "No"?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Prices: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: When it comes to a town nearby, it is a different question. What happened in Limerick was horrendous. It is going around the country like a bandwagon. It is moving on and will be in County Mayo one of these days.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Prices: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: I made the suggestion that the companies in the sector would take on the burden of the cost of Irish Water. How would the delegates feel about that suggestion?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Prices: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: That answers my question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Prices: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: On that point, Mr. Manning referred to offshore wind and the competitive nature of onshore wind. How does the Valuation Office put a commercial rate on a sandbank in the sea because commercial rates are supposed to be about a notional letting value of the property? Who will rent a sandbank?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Prices: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: This makes it even worse.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (25 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: 35. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to regularise the provision of home care, both public and private, provided to elderly persons, and vulnerable adults, in their own homes; his plans to extend the Health Information and Quality Authority inspection regimes to those organisations, and companies, that provide home care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7897/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: 229. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax implications for a parent, who wishes to financially assist their child with mortgage repayments, where the mortgage is half-paid but the child is currently unemployed; and if the parent will be penalised in the same way as a parent helping a child with a deposit, under the new guidelines. [7826/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (24 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: 306. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason penalties on single farm payments were imposed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8201/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Home Schooling (24 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: 353. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position in regard to his Department's guidelines for children's home schooling for two days a week, while they attend school for the other three days; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7914/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (24 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: 608. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to update broadband in the Ballycanew and Ballyoughter area of County Wexford. [7808/15]
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: What about the Deputy's trampoline?