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Community Employment Pension Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2018)

Bobby Aylward: I commend my colleagues on bringing forward this motion and I only wish I had more time to speak on this very important issue. The community employment schemes were introduced in this country at a time when unemployment levels were very high, particularly in rural Ireland. By all accounts, the initiative has been very successful and has served its participants very well in securing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Bobby Aylward: What resistance to that measure did Mr. Duggan encounter?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Retirements (24 Apr 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 298. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda retirements from each Garda station in counties Carlow and Kilkenny in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18075/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Apr 2018)

Bobby Aylward: He was not seen in the queue anyway.

Other Questions: Medicinal Products Regulation (19 Apr 2018)

Bobby Aylward: With regard to directives, implementation is the important thing. Who will monitor this? This is the problem. Young children in the State are suffering due to exposure to medicine that contains valproate. Children as young as six years of age have had to endure more hospital appointments and hospital surgeries than most adults do in a lifetime, as the Minister admits also. Will the...

Other Questions: Medicinal Products Regulation (19 Apr 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 9. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he and the Health Service Executive have taken regarding the issue of children affected by foetal anticonvulsant syndrome, FACS, in circumstances in which children were exposed to sodium valproate medicines in the womb; his plans to conduct a review of the families and children affected by this issue; his further plans to set up a compensation...

Other Questions: Medicinal Products Regulation (19 Apr 2018)

Bobby Aylward: In a reply to a parliamentary question from my colleague, Deputy Lisa Chambers, in November last year the Minister acknowledged that children exposed to valproate in the womb had an increased risk of congenital malformations and neural development disorders, including autism. He also stated that a warning label for the outer packaging of the Epilim product was introduced in Ireland in early...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Bobby Aylward: The Comptroller and Auditor General mentioned €5.4 million involving two other governance bodies.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Bobby Aylward: Has he looked at those? Are their accounts subject to scrutiny here?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Bobby Aylward: Can the Comptroller and Auditor General insist on getting those? We do not know where the €5.4 million was spent or on what.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Bobby Aylward: It is taxpayers' money.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Bobby Aylward: That has been going on for years. The man has contacted me several times.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Bobby Aylward: That is right. An accident happened during an escape attempt. What can we do about that?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Bobby Aylward: For how many years has this been ongoing?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Bobby Aylward: Have we a role to play or a remit in this?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Bobby Aylward: I advised him to take the legal route but he keeps coming back this route.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Bobby Aylward: What are we going to do now? Are we going to send it to the Minister?

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Bobby Aylward: I am sorry for being late. I was here earlier but I had to go as I had a question in the Dáil and had to stay there. My question may have been asked already, in which case I apologise. On the EU budget and the €2 billion that we paid in 2016, is this the first year in which we contributed or was that also the case in 2014 and 2015? I know we were neutral prior to that and we...

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Bobby Aylward: It was €2 billion in 2016, what were the figures for 2017 and 2018?

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Bobby Aylward: Who is that from? How is that formula arrived at for our contribution? By what method do we calculate this?