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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Small Public Service Vehicle (Consolidation and Reform) Regulations 2014: National Transport Authority (5 Mar 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: It is about three miles from Abbeyfeale. The person applying for the hackney licence is not expected to know that but he is expected to know about Kilbeheny and Doon which are more than 60 miles from Abbeyfeale. That is crazy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Small Public Service Vehicle (Consolidation and Reform) Regulations 2014: National Transport Authority (5 Mar 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: Mr. Creegan can satisfy me if he will agree to revise the geographical element of the knowledge test. I agree there should be a knowledge test, but it should be based on the functional area of the licence holder not an aspirational area. Would the witnesses not admit that those from large counties, like Cork, such as a person from Ballydehob would be expected to know about places that are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Small Public Service Vehicle (Consolidation and Reform) Regulations 2014: National Transport Authority (5 Mar 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: The ordnance survey maps break the country down into grids. It is very easy to apply the knowledge test to the area of the grid which relates to the area in which the person has applied for the licence. If a person picks up a fare in Limerick and is being asked to drive to Donegal, good luck to him because he will do well but by the same token would Mr. Creegan accept that the majority of...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (5 Mar 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: 40. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to instances where correspondence from her Department to persons in receipt of social welfare actively seeks to discourage, or prevent, claimants from receiving their payment over the counter at their local post office and instead provides only the option of EFT to banks; her views that removing that option could...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Chronic Disease Management Programme (5 Mar 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: 176. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the recommendations of the Asthma Society of Ireland in their recently published objectives entitled The Case for Change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11058/14]
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy is wrong.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy was taking that for granted.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy is great for the prepared speeches.
- Business of Dáil (4 Mar 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy was not here last week and neither was his Whip.
- Business of Dáil (4 Mar 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: What about Finian?
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: Deputy Martin will go into the local elections himself.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: Will Deputy Martin apologise at his party’s Ard-Fheis for what it did to the country?
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: They will say Deputy Martin bankrupted the country.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Recruitment (4 Mar 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: 313. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have completed the first round of aptitude tests for recruitment to the Garda Síochána; the percentage mark that is regarded as a pass percent; the number of those who passed the exam; if there was a grading structure provided for those that passed the exam; the percentages applied to each grade; the number...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Recruitment (4 Mar 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: 314. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration was given to experience gained by members of the Garda Reserve in the recruitment process for the Garda Síochána which is currently under way; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10790/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Appeals (4 Mar 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: 337. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a ground survey inspection will be carried out by his Department in County Limerick (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10533/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (4 Mar 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: 466. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied with the decision not to award a general practitioner visit card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10786/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Delays (4 Mar 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: 487. To ask the Minister for Health when a person in (details supplied) in County Mayo can expect to be called for an outpatient appointment, in view of the fact the person has been waiting since May 2013 to be called and this delay is causing undue stress. [10887/14]
- Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: I never speak privately or publicly to the Deputy so she cannot be talking about me.
- Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: Deputy Creighton, in coming in here and trying to smear the rest of us as well as the Minister, Deputy Shatter, and the Taoiseach, has managed to hit a new low.