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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: How much?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: How much are those two services costing? What is the annual cost?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Mr. Nolan has not answered it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: In fairness to the people whose service is being cut, they should be given this information. Taxpayers should know how much the service is costing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Bus Éireann is a semi-State company.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport is the shareholder in Bus Éireann which is a semi-State company and operating public service obligation routes outside its Expressway services. It is fair to ask, on behalf of the people who are losing their service, how much it is costing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Bus Éireann is taking away the service. It has shown its hand. This is like a poker game. I do not think it is too much to ask how much its decision to take away this service will save. What is it costing? Are the delegates refusing to answer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: That is regrettable, as Bus Éireann is a semi-State company. The National Transport Authority has made it clear that it would like to have additional resources available to Bus Éireann. The representatives of Bus Éireann who have come to this meeting are trying to defend the decision to remove this service, but they are not willing to tell Members of the Oireachtas how much...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I did not say it did. I was speaking generally.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Services are about to be removed from two communities and the delegates are refusing to tell us how much they cost.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: JJ Kavanagh is not answerable to the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport. The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport is not responsible for JJ Kavanagh.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: With the greatest of respect, Bus Éireann has shut the door on these communities.

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Easter Rising Commemorations (11 Mar 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 26. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if, as part of the commemoration of 1916, consideration will be given to placing the national flag in classrooms; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10017/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates Applications (11 Mar 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance if the primary medical certificate will be re-issued in circumstances to allow tax relief to be claimed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10670/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: SportNation Programme (11 Mar 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 163. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of the allocations which have been made, under the Sports Nation Programme for capital expenditure; the time frame for the draw-down on these funds; if he anticipates that some local authorities may not avail of their allocation; if he will reallocate such unused funds, to support projects that are ready...

Order of Business (10 Mar 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy will get covered on Vincent Browne's show tonight.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Properties (10 Mar 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 145. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide details of all properties rented by his Department; the annual cost of the leases; the duration of the leases; and the capacity, and occupancy, of each premises, as at the end of January 2015. [9472/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Eligibility (10 Mar 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 153. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to reintroduce the dietary allowance for coeliac food; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9885/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Funding (10 Mar 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 169. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if financial assistance is available from her Department in respect of a community initiative (details supplied) in County Wicklow. [10127/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Eligibility (10 Mar 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 255. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department imposed penalties and exclusions on entitlements under the single payment scheme for those areas of ground where trees were felled during the storms in 2014; if his Department provided reasonable time in all cases to landowners to have storm damage cleared to avoid penalties; and if he will make a statement on the...