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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: With respect to Mr. Nolan, the Department did not give the statement; Bus Éireann gave it to the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Perhaps it should be amended to reflect the actual costs of running the service.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: When Bus Éireann went to the industry did it offer preferential terms and conditions? Were better terms offered to those people at the time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Could I go back again?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: I wish to return to one point about the figure of €162 million. Mr. Gannon said the €30 million was largely invested in 750 new services. Was there a change in the number of services between 2008 and the saving being achieved? What was the number of services at the start of the period and the end of the period? How many services were there at the start when the cost was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: The reason I ask is that the witnesses put a lot of weight on the fact that they had re-invested in 750 new services so I am anxious to know whether services were cut prior to that. I wish to know how many services there were at the start and how many services there are now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: A lot of weight has been put on the saving but we do not know how many services we started with and how many we finished with.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: I welcome the delegation from Bus Éireann. As Deputy Coffey has said, in reference to a previous speaker, nobody in this committee has a monopoly in terms of concern or in terms of allegations made or which are in the public arena. To suggest otherwise is disingenuous to the committee and to the member who made it. Discussions that are held in private should be private but, obviously,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: My question was why those savings had not been made earlier. Why did the economy have to collapse before the Department of Education and Skills insisted that savings were made? Why were these efficiencies not insisted on all the time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: What is the cost of the service now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: What was the cost for 2012?

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (6 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: Ba mhaith liom mo chomhbhrón a dhéanamh le muintir Ó Clochasaigh ar son bás Peadar Ó Clochasaigh. Like some of the previous speakers, I did not have the pleasure of serving in the Dáil or on the local authority with Peadar, but I did have occasion to meet him at several Limerick County Council functions while I was a member. Once the decision was made to...

Leaders' Questions (6 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: What happens in the North?

Leaders' Questions (6 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: There is a lot of that going around, too.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Data (6 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 322. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total spent on free legal aid in 2012; the total number of persons to whom free legal aid was provided; the average fee-cost of the free legal aid; the ten largest individual amounts paid for individual cases under free legal aid in 2012; the number of persons who had previously received free legal aid on one other, two other, three other,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Appeals (6 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 343. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an appeal of single farm payment for 2013 in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20081/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications (6 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 371. To ask the Minister for Health the assistance that will be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Wexford in relation to the urgent funding needed under the nursing homes support package; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20022/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (1 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 11. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider a review of the current planning legislation to allow the extension of planning permission in cases which cannot be pursued due to economic circumstances; if he will allow the applicant the opportunity to prove that they can comply with modern standards by way of submission of information to the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (1 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 14. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will carry out a review of the procedures in place for the letting of local authority houses to ensure that local authorities are not prevented from overly onerous regulations and conditions from letting houses to tenants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19458/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (1 May 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 144. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prosecutions gardaí in the Garda division of Limerick have made against persons whose car exhausts exceed the maximum noise levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19771/14]