Results 10,361-10,380 of 10,591 for speaker:Patrick O'Donovan
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (27 Sep 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: Question 290: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 316 of 14 September 2011, if she will provide a breakdown of the funding allocated between children making their first holy communion, those making their confirmation and those who received funding for other religious ceremonies. [26246/11]
- Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (27 Sep 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: Question 313: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the uptake of the rural broadband initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25638/11]
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (27 Sep 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: Question 544: To ask the Minister for Health further to previous questions regarding the position of the chief dental officer replied to on 26 May 2011, the position regarding same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25924/11]
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (27 Sep 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: Question 545: To ask the Minister for Health the number of recommendations of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children's report into orthodontic care that have been implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25925/11]
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (27 Sep 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: Question 546: To ask the Minister for Health the Health Service Executive's position in relation to the employment of orthodontic therapists; if the position adopted by the HSE here is in keeping with international best practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25926/11]
- Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (27 Sep 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: Question 547: To ask the Minister for Health if he has any plans to amend the Dentists Act 1985; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25927/11]
- Written Answers — Pharmacy Regulations: Pharmacy Regulations (27 Sep 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: Question 569: To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 936 of 14 September 2011, the length of time he intends to keep this reduced reimbursement price for fridge items in place. [26248/11]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Sep 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: Question 146: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for mortgage interest supplement in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [25455/11]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Sep 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: Question 151: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a redundancy claim in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; when payment will issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25423/11]
- Written Answers — Security of the Elderly: Security of the Elderly (22 Sep 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: Question 184: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding an application in respect of an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25451/11]
- Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (21 Sep 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: Question 58: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a redundancy settlement in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25162/11]
- Written Answers — Local Authority Staff: Local Authority Staff (21 Sep 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: Question 88: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce a voluntary redundancy scheme for employees of local authorities. [25287/11]
- ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: I want to draw attention to some of the remarks made by the Deputies from the Technical Group. No truer title could be put on the group because one would have to be a genius to figure out what it stands for. One Deputy advocated the sale of the entire company and another said we should sell none of it and if it was sold, the workers should go out on strike. The two Deputies in question were...
- ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: It is not about conning people into thinking we can bury our heads in the sand and wake up in the morning to find everything okay. We want to be able to keep hospitals and schools open, provide public services and pay gardaÃ. Nobody on the Opposition benches has come up with a single credible proposition as to how that can happen other than telling the EU, IMF and ECB that we do not want...
- ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: If they did, the result would be a one-way ticket back to the Stone Age.
- ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: I do not need anyone to read any words back to me because when Cumann na nGaedheal founded the ESB in 1927, many other people were busy trying to subvert the State and up to the 1980s some people continued on that track.
- ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: Deputy Mac Lochlainn might snigger and laugh at what this State has had to go through to protect its sovereignty and independence, but we will have a polling day soon and the people will have their say on many of those matters. Nobody would like to be in the unenviable position in which the Government finds itself at the moment. It is not politically popular to be making decisions such as...
- ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: Is that what the Deputy is advocating - a revolution?
- ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: Is it a revolution the Deputy is advocating? That will achieve a lot.
- ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: Why do we not go to Colombia altogether?