Results 8,881-8,900 of 10,573 for speaker:Patrick O'Donovan

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (28 May 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: 161. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify the situation regarding capital gains tax (details supplied). [25303/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (28 May 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: 239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for a school (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25215/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Eligibility (28 May 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: 562. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a person (details supplied) in County Wexford will have their entitlements reinstated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25345/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Applications (28 May 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: 563. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25346/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (28 May 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: 564. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the agri-environment option scheme section 2 payment in respect of a person (details supplied ) in County Wexford; when payment will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25382/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Crisis (28 May 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: 573. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form a break down by county of the number of calls received to his Department's animal welfare helpline since 23 April 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25604/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (28 May 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: 727. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of the costs to Irish Rail of the rebranding with their new logo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25882/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fodder Crisis (23 May 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: 43. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the decision taken by the Shannon Airport Authority to allow farming organisations to cut grass on property owned by them to help alleviate fodder shortages in the local area, if he will ask those agencies, companies, authorities, boards and so on who come within his remit to consider similar initiatives on suitable public lands owned by them in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Budgetary Position and Editorial Policy: Discussion with RTE (22 May 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: The question related to editorial fairness and having a selected audience, as the witnesses have acknowledged-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Budgetary Position and Editorial Policy: Discussion with RTE (22 May 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: The vast majority will be picked for a particular night and a particular topic. Was anything learned from the experience of the presidential election, when the format spectacularly blew up in the face of RTE? There was unfairness to the people expecting to go on to represent a particular view, whether political, spiritual, religious or economic. A certain degree of fairness is lost in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Budgetary Position and Editorial Policy: Discussion with RTE (22 May 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: Does that include contractors?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Budgetary Position and Editorial Policy: Discussion with RTE (22 May 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: I thank the RTE representatives. I hope the other semi-State companies under the remit of this committee are watching, because they should be subject to the same level of scrutiny. I will be proposing that in the near future, particularly in view of the fact that one semi-State company recently made a €40 million loss but it pays its chief executive officer €400,000 per annum....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Budgetary Position and Editorial Policy: Discussion with RTE (22 May 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: Some people, the more unscrupulous politicians, might do it, Chairman. We saw what this has the potential to do in the presidential election, when a planted, loaded grenade went off in the middle of a "Prime Time" programme and did huge damage. I was never going to vote for the man, but I believe it did huge damage to him. There should be some type of clearance, whether the programmes are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Budgetary Position and Editorial Policy: Discussion with RTE (22 May 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: Ann from Kilkenny.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Institutions Issues (22 May 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the number of teaching days in 2012 in each of the third level institutions funded by the State; the number of teaching staff in each of those institutions; the number of privilege or personal days taken in each of those institutions in 2012; the minimum and maximum number of holidays given to teaching staff...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Issues (22 May 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: 122. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of persons dismissed or removed from the public service due to failure to perform duties or negligence in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24548/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions Expenditure (22 May 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: 123. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views of retired Taoisigh and Government Ministers in receipt of State pensions with second incomes from public sources; if he has plans to reduce these pensions and pensions to other former politicians; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24553/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Fodder Crisis (22 May 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: 150. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she or officials in her Department have engaged with representatives of the farming organisations and officials of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine to assess the impact of the recent fodder crisis on those in receipt of farm assist; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24556/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Television Licence Statistics (22 May 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: 173. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of television licenses purchased in 2010, 2011 and 2012; the total amount raised in television licences in each of those years; if he considered carrying out a value for money examination of the television licence process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24547/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Accommodation (22 May 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: 191. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details in tabular form by prison, detention centre or institution of the amount spent on decorating accommodation spaces for prisoners in each centre during 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24532/13]