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- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Penalty Points System (26 Nov 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: 494. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details in tabular form by county of the number of penalty points issued to persons as a result of detection by the speed camera vans since their introduction; the amount of revenue that has been raised as a result; if all the revenue has been returned to the Exchequer; the amount of fines levied which is overdue by more...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Applications (26 Nov 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: 561. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Wexford will be paid their single farm payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50816/13]
- Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: Why does the Deputy not ask Mary O'Rourke?
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Funding (21 Nov 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: 26. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding financial assistance (details supplied). [50045/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud Data (21 Nov 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: 112. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department officials carried out interviews on persons travelling through Irish airports and ferry terminals as a means of detecting social welfare fraud; if she will provide details in tabular form of the number of interviews per airport and ferry terminals that were carried out in 2012; the number of payments that were discontinued as a...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (21 Nov 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: 223. To ask the Minister for Health the legislative and regulatory controls that exist to cover the sale, advertising and promotion of electronic cigarettes. [49995/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licence Data (21 Nov 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: 231. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the data in response to a parliamentary question regarding applications for drivers' licences and learner permits in 2012, if he is satisfied that an adequate presence of national driver licence centre in Limerick exists in comparison to the data relating to applications and distances from centres in counties Leitrim,...
- Government Decision on Exiting Programme of Financial Support: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy had his chance to speak. On the significance of the decision made, I pay tribute to the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan. There is no doubt that he has made an excellent start in leading the country's economic recovery. The analogy he used at the weekend was that when one was learning to swim, sooner or later one had to let go of the bar and take off the armbands....
- Government Decision on Exiting Programme of Financial Support: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: I thank Deputy John Paul Phelan for sharing his time with me. I return to some of the commentary made by Deputy Seán Fleming before he left the House. The vacant Fianna Fáil benches are reminiscent of the vacant attitude Fianna Fáil took to the running of the country when it was in government. Unless I was in a parallel universe, Deputy Seán Fleming made out in the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EirGrid Grid25 Project: Discussion (20 Nov 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: I am one of the few Deputies present who is not from an area affected by the Grid25 project. While my constituency may not be affected by the current proposal, there is no doubt, given its topography, that it will be identified for the future development of wind farms. To be fair to the delegation, its members did not come here expecting to hear flippant, throwaway promises that all their...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Administration (20 Nov 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: 57. To ask the Minister for Finance if a home owner with a mortgage under the repairs in lieu of rehousing scheme from the local authority should have been informed of their liability under the local property tax; and if these owners have an exemption to the LPT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49689/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (20 Nov 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: 164. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Limerick has not received a headage payment for 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49683/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services Provision (20 Nov 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: 186. To ask the Minister for Health if he has been requested to establish a process to roll out the delivery of orthodontic therapy in accordance with best international practice, in order to reduce the waiting lists for children waiting for orthodontic treatment; if he will provide details of all meetings that officials of his Department have held with the Dental Council and dental colleges...
- Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: The maritime area and foreshore (amendment) Bill is in section A of the Government legislative programme. When will the Bill come before the House? It is of huge importance to the development of ports, particularly from the point of view of planning, including the port of Foynes, County Limerick.
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid Issues (19 Nov 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: 106. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department have examined the level of reduction in the overseas aid budget of other EU-IMF programme countries; his views on whether the current percentage of expenditure is sustainable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48804/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Collection (19 Nov 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: 173. To ask the Minister for Finance the numbers of persons who opted to have their local porperty tax deducted from their Department of social welfare payment for the 2013 period; of those persons the number who actually had the charge deducted from their payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49097/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadcasting Sector Regulation (19 Nov 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: 403. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his legislative plans to introduce guidelines to cover the area of programme sponsorship to the public service broadcaster; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49271/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Noise Pollution Legislation (19 Nov 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: 443. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the current legislation on noise pollution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49106/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals (19 Nov 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: 589. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of appeals submitted to the disadvantaged area scheme appeal committee by way of the minimum stock density derogation application for the years 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012; and of the appeals received the numbers successful. [49141/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility (19 Nov 2013)
Patrick O'Donovan: 590. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the stock density for farmers under the disadvantaged area scheme for the years 2009,2010 and 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49151/13]