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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (11 Jun 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: Will the Deputy be bringing a few rubbish bins?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (11 Jun 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: Since when did two wrongs make a right?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (11 Jun 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: Following on from Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett's contribution, would the Taoiseach agree that the G8 summit should be welcomed as providing a forum in which the wealthiest and most powerful countries in the world can discuss these issues? Without that forum, the vacuum that would be created is the very same vacuum which led to two world wars on this Continent and millions of deaths in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (11 Jun 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: 8. To ask the Taoiseach the role he will play at the upcoming G8 Summit in Northern Ireland; the issues he plans to raise at the summit with other leaders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27357/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (11 Jun 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: 104. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the alternatives that are in place for a person in need of an emergency passport and needing to make the application in person in the Passport Office when there are no available appointments on-line; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27158/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: FÁS Training Programmes (11 Jun 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: 216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if now that FÁS has been amagamated with the Department of Social Protection, if the payment schedules for both can be brought into line with each other, as persons on jobseeker's payment when transferring to a FÁS course must wait for their payment as they get paid a week in hand; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (11 Jun 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: 256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update of his Department's plans for a new school (details supplied) in County Limerick; if the school was previously on a list for construction by his Department and approved pending planning permission; if he will confirm if officials from his Department have visited the school during 2013 to assess the current...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (11 Jun 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: 260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an examination has been carried out by his Department into the value of giving homework for children in primary school; if his Department has agreed standards on the allocation of homework in the school system, if he intends bringing forward any changes to policies in the area of homework; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (11 Jun 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: 385. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason it is necessary to stop a person's rent allowance when there is an existing contract with the landlord and the property they are living in has gone into receivership, the receiver has taken over this property; the reason rent allowance ceased immediately; the reason there is such a huge delay in processing the new rent allowance...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (11 Jun 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: 720. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form, the numbers of Gardaí by rank in each Garda Division for the years 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; if he will provide details of the populations served by each of these divisions for the periods concerned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27426/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Inspections (11 Jun 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: 801. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form by county and by month the number of unannounced farm inspections that have taken place since 1 January 2013. [27079/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (11 Jun 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: 1110. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form by county for the years 2010, 2011 and 2012, the number of persons that applied for SPSV Licenses in each of the local authority areas for that period; the number of persons who were successful; the number of persons who were unsuccessful in the geography element of the test; the numbers of those...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: School Meals Programme (30 May 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: 139. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide the full list of schools that have been granted the school lunch scheme in the past six months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26417/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Disease Controls (30 May 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: 237. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the availability of a vaccine to the farming sector (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26388/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (30 May 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: 273. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to include Addison's disease as one of the qualifying medical conditions under the long term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26315/13]

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 May 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: Our destruction was not as bad as yours.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 May 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: We did renegotiate.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 May 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: Was the Deputy there?

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 May 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: Fianna Fáil does not want Deputy Mattie McGrath back. There is no way it will take him back.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 May 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: I did not say, "watch your back". I said Fianna Fáil does not want the Deputy back.