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Order of Business (10 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Sinn Féin might have another "Sit-in Thursday" tomorrow.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: National Postcode System: (Resumed) Nightline (10 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Mr. Tuohy mentioned Ballymacarbry and Clonmel in his initial contribution. I have a huge issue in south and east Limerick with postal addresses in Charleville in county Cork and Tipperary, so I know exactly what he is talking about. One of his competitors recently stopped me in the street while I was in the village of Athea in west Limerick with an address that is practically down beside the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: National Postcode System: (Resumed) Nightline (10 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: In relation to Mr. Tuohy's own business, a capital investment will be required, without knowing the amount. Is this something the industry as a whole can absorb? It must obviously invest in its own technologies in order to avail of the code system. Will it impact adversely on the sector?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Court Recommendations (10 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 27. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to put a mechanism in place to implement the Labour Court recommendation of 2008 in regard to an agreed pension scheme proviso for community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42006/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Payments (10 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 76. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a timeframe as to when a single farm payment and a disadvantaged area payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47365/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Penalty Points System (10 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 114. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos 494 of 26 November, 2013 and No. 558 of 18 February 2014 if the Garda authorities have now finalised a reply; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47464/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (10 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding funding for the rental of temporary accommodation in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47491/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (10 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 170. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the provisions in place to ensure a person who is awaiting a national car test, which was booked on 16 November 2014 but will not be taken until 30 January 2015 due to a backlog, is not issued penalty points considering the persons NCT certificate is due to expire on 1 January 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47451/14]

Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Do you not realise, a Cheann Comhairle, it is a county council meeting?

Confidence in Taoiseach and Government: Motion (9 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: I express my confidence in the Taoiseach and Government. I welcome Deputy Colreavy back to the House. He was clearly not fit to be in the chorus given his party's new found interest in music. We must remember that the party which started this debate defines a wealthy person in a country that is recovering as a teacher on a salary of €35,000 or €40,000. What does Sinn...

Confidence in Taoiseach and Government: Motion (9 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: In the case of a teacher who is married to a small farmer in west Limerick who owns a few heifers, it also has a wealth tax in store. This tax may generate €40,000 or €50,000 from bad or marginal land in my part of the country over the lifetime of a Sinn Féin Government. Deputy Colreavy is in an awful hurry to have an election.

Confidence in Taoiseach and Government: Motion (9 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: I challenge you to tell farmers in Carrick-on-Shannon, Mohill, Sligo and other parts of the west that your party plans to tax their land and the worse the land, the more you will tax it. Your spokesperson on agriculture-----

Confidence in Taoiseach and Government: Motion (9 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Sinn Féin's spokesperson on agriculture told the House that unworked farm assets will be taxed when Sinn Féin gets into government. An unworked farm asset in my part of the world is bad land. Deputy Colreavy, who is from the west, proposes to introduce a tax on land that cannot be farmed and for which payment may need to be made by the litre rather than by the acre. That proposal...

Confidence in Taoiseach and Government: Motion (9 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: When Deputy Colreavy travels around the country with Deputy Mattie McGrath, with whom his party hopes to form a Government in the near future, he must not forget to tell people that his party's solution for agriculture is to introduce a land tax on bad land in constituencies such as mine across the west. I do not have any problem supporting the motion of confidence.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Services Regulation (9 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 252. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the establishment of an office of a legal services ombudsman, as per the Legal Services Ombudsman Act 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46829/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (9 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 341. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding dermatological treatment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47184/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (9 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs assistants and resource teachers who are employed nationally in our schools by her Department; of these the number who have been employed through JobBridge or any other Department of Social Protection scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46851/14]

Other Questions: Taxi Regulations (4 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 8. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update regarding proposed changes to the knowledge test for rural hackney licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46016/14]

Other Questions: Taxi Regulations (4 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: This question relates to an issue that I have been raising for some time, namely, the knowledge tests that people who apply for hackney licences in rural areas must take, the tests' level of complexity and their failure rate. They are almost designed to be failed. Will the Minister of State update me on what the National Transport Authority, NTA, and-or her Department are doing to improve...

Other Questions: Taxi Regulations (4 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: I thank the Minister of State for her reply. I know that the NTA is the responsible agency, but it could be encouraged by her and her two ministerial colleagues to do a bit more. If someone in Piltown in south Kilkenny wants to become a hackney driver, much of the person's business might be in south Tipperary or Waterford, but he or she will not be asked about those areas in a knowledge...