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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Fee Paying Schools (7 Oct 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: 462. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of the costs involved in the transfer of Kilkenny College from fee-paying status to public school status; if she will provide a detailed comparison of the costs incurred by her Department between the time when the school was fee-paying and its current status as a public school; and if she will make a statement on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Sep 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: I submitted a proposal last year on this whole issue and the possibility of increasing the grant. Clearly, there is an issue here in terms of combatting the black economy. What is the delegates' view on the current operation of the scheme? Is it pegged at a level sufficient to capture those individuals at whom it was targeted?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Sep 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: I accept that, but my point is that the grant level is probably too low to offer sufficient encouragement to home owners.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Sep 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: If it looks as if the scheme might be removed in the future, it might be targeted at activities such as energy or water conservation. Water conservation is going to be very prevalent in the future. Is the industry getting much cross-Border activity?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Sep 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: What does Ms Graham mean by an abuse?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Sep 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: Is it illegal?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Sep 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: Is there are certain cartel that could be identified?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Sep 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: Would Ms Graham mind e-mailing the committee on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Sep 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: On the availability of the grant and its due finishing date in 2015, Hardware Association Ireland has made a submission in its budget submission with regard to extending it further. It is interesting to see that the statistics show that its uptake has not yet extended throughout the country but is concentrated to be concentrated in the east. There are couple of things that might be put...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Sep 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: I apologise for interrupting. The State Street company, which has a presence in Naas, has become actively involved with the university in Maynooth to design a course specific to its needs. It is fine to ask for something but there must be active involvement in trying to create a course, as many would have to start from scratch.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Sep 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: Where is the pilot?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Sep 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: I will not get into a personal vendetta against the witness.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Sep 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: I get it in the neck every day of the week from my brother about the current situation between off-licences and pubs. I have always believed that we must look at off-licences and the cost of selling rather than reduce the price on the vintner side. We must put some measures in place and compare the controlled environment of a pub with the uncontrolled environment of an off-licence from a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (30 Sep 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: 492. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the proposed politics and society course will be available for the leaving certificate cycle; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36691/14]

Topical Issue Debate: Property Taxation Collection (25 Sep 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I reiterate the basic payment that this person and others receive is €188 and from the perspective of the €186 threshold, they are snookered. I take comfort from a sentence of the Minister of State's reply that, "The Minister is reviewing the implications of allowing customers to have deductions made from their welfare payment...

Topical Issue Debate: Property Taxation Collection (25 Sep 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: I welcome the Minister of State and congratulate him on his new role. I sat beside Deputy Humphreys on many occasions and engaged in good banter with him on the backbenches. I am delighted to see someone who was up here with me - where the pigeons cannot fly - being elevated to a lower level in the Dáil Chamber. I wish him the best of luck in his new role and hope that he will be able...

Sport Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: I will start by giving out to the Minister of State because he is too fair. His predecessors used to curry political favour in the home county of the Minister with responsibility for sport or the Minister for Finance. The Minister of State has been most fair in giving each county a fair share of the funding available based on population. Limited though the funding is, each county has...

Sport Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: I appreciate that.

Sport Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: The canals are a potential tourism facility in Kildare, and if they were opened up to cycling and walking, it would be excellent. I can see huge potential in the long term. Investment in sport occurs in a number of ways and one way which goes unnoticed is how the Tús scheme works for sports clubs and sports organisations in helping to maintain what they have and allowing improvements...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Land Transfers (25 Sep 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: 260. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason his Department is delaying the legal transfer of 30 lands from ten local authorities (details supplied) to the Housing Agency under the land aggregation scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36316/14]