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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (5 Dec 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of recent developments at a school (details supplied) in County Limerick, if he will consider proposals that were made by this Deputy during the course of a topical issue debate on 27 November 2012 including a greater level of due diligence in advance of awarding school building contracts, a more enhanced role for local quantity surveyors...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement (5 Dec 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in view of recent developments at a school (details supplied) in County Limerick, if he will consider proposals that were made by this Deputy during the course of a topical issue debate on 27 November 2012 including a greater level of due diligence in advance of awarding school building contracts, a more enhanced role for local quantity...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive Staff Remuneration (5 Dec 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: To ask the Minister for Health if the increment that was paid to staff nurses that took on additional responsibilities and moved to the position of senior staff nurse which was discontinued in 2009 will be reinstated; if the change in the allowance was covered by the Croke Park Agreement; the number that were affected; the savings that have been made; if he has had discussions with the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (5 Dec 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently in receipt of private home care hours; the cost to the State for the provision for this service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54678/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (4 Dec 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will issue on the location of the new headquarters for the amalgamation of Limerick and Clare Local Education Training Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54261/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (4 Dec 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal for invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and when a decision may be made on same. [54166/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications (4 Dec 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an agri environment option scheme payment for 2011 will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal. [54167/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications (4 Dec 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when disadvantaged area scheme application will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal. [54234/12]

Civil Defence Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (29 Nov 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate. Before I get into the nuts and bolts of the legislation, I often wonder whether the previous Government did anything apart from establish boards, quangos, talking shops and unnecessary stuff because we have spent most of the past two years doing nothing other than abolishing them. I acknowledge we have to try to get rid of 14 years of...

Civil Defence Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (29 Nov 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: On the one hand, the parliamentary time it is taking to undo the bureaucratic monster, which is the legacy of the previous Government, is a waste, but, on the other, it epitomises the wanton waste in which the previous Government engaged like a juggernaut out of control spewing out cash. The €60,000 saving resulting from this Bill might be small but, as Deputy Tom Hayes said, it is...

Order of Business (29 Nov 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: On promised legislation, there is much concern among vintners and publicans about alcohol pricing, a matter which has been discussed in the House previously. When is it expected that legislation will be brought before the House?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Research and Development (29 Nov 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the licensing arragements involved for a private person or company to carry out general research into different grass varieties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53499/12]

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: There is a huge anomaly in that regard. The foreign channel has a bad habit of breaking through across the air waves here. There is an anomaly and I urge the Minister to address that. The political parties in the Dáil must keep a set of accounts with regard to what they do with the Leader's allowance and these accounts must be audited and assessed annually. However, the same does not...

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: The electorate has the right to know what way the Independent Members are spending their money. I must have touched a nerve, because all of a sudden the Independent Members have woken from their slumber. The electorate has a right to know how their money is being spent. Essentially, that €43,000 comes on top of Deputies salaries of €86,000, for which they do not need to...

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: These are the people who talk about austerity, household charges, VAT and so on, yet they have no problem taking this unvouched payment into their hands. If we are to have political accountability, we should start with that. Another anomaly that has arisen is that we have a party in the Dáil, which claims to be an all-island party, which has six Members of a foreign parliament who...

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: I do not need to be reminded of it. Some of the people who hold Dáil seats were former non-participating representatives in a foreign parliament and had no problem drawing the £180,000 allowance on offer.

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: Absolutely. I never believed in the partitionist politics of Sinn Féin, where it says one thing in this House and another thing in the North.

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: What the Minister proposes in terms of boundaries must be looked at also in terms of local electoral areas. I urge him, when looking at the make-up of local electoral areas, to consider the rural counties. Councillors are serving rural electoral areas in constituencies throughout the country that are bigger than some Dáil areas and cognisance needs to be taken of this. I have often...

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: I am only using Cork as an example.

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: It is unusual to be heckled from both sides of the House.