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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: In his earlier submission, Mr. Keegan said "Under the proposal the city council would consider an updated event management plan to be submitted in accordance with the licence whereby three concerts would proceed but the Sunday and Saturday concerts would start earlier". At some stage, he must have thought it was a good idea.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: At no stage, did Mr. Keegan say to Peter Aiken "This is a bad idea".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: I thank the representatives of Dublin City Council for attending. I seek a clarification before I start asking questions. Are the representatives or have they ever been members of the GAA?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: What about Mr. Keegan?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: What about Mr. Downey?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: I presume that Mr. Keogan was party to the letter, the part of which relating to our membership or otherwise of the GAA Mr. Keegan has withdrawn, that was sent to committee members last week. Did he know that it was being sent?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: He has withdrawn the part in question. Other members found it objectionable, but I found it insulting that a CEO of a local authority would cast an aspersion on us by virtue of the fact that some of us are members of the GAA. It smacks of everything that is bad about this entire situation. Other members have merely called Mr. Keegan's judgment into question for sending the letter, but he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Did Mr. Keegan ask Dublin City Council's councillors to absent themselves from last week's council meeting if they were also members of the GAA?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Why not? Did Mr. Keegan write to them in advance and ask whether they had a conflict of interest?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Dublin City Council held a meeting last week at which its members presumably put to Mr. Keegan questions similar to ours. He did not ask them whether they had conflicts of interest by virtue of being supporters or members of the GAA, yet it is okay for him to ask that of Members of the Oireachtas. This relates to one of my concerns with this situation, in that it has been shambolic from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: It was something that the council would consider.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: To even suggest that it would be considered is ludicrous. Mr. Keegan also stated that five concerts would have been unprecedented. Given the experience of events at Croke Park, would four consecutive nights, each entailing 80,000 people, not have been regarded as unprecedented? At what point would it have become unprecedented? In terms of declarations of interest, Mr. Keegan stated that...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 58. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the recent meeting of the British Irish Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29233/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code Reform (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 72. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on any proposals she may have to reform the current system in order that provision may be made for social welfare payments for the self employed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30812/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud Investigations (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 73. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide details on the initiatives her Department has taken in order to reduce social welfare fraud; her views that changes to data protection laws are required to aid detection; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30811/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Autism Incidence (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 324. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in tabular form by county since 2011 the number of children who have received a diagnosis on the autistic spectrum; the number of ASD places by county in the same period; and the number of those places which are designated for pre-school children. [31597/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 383. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary who has applied for optical benefit. [31101/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 485. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to any plans to change the planning regulations in relation to fast food takeaways; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31140/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 506. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of the work being done to deal with voids in local authority housing stocks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31458/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (15 Jul 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 538. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of participants involved in the conservation of farmland birds schemes (details supplied); the cost to the Exchequer for each of these schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31613/14]