Results 201-220 of 9,402 for speaker:Patrick O'Donovan

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (15 Sep 2011)

Patrick O'Donovan: Question 157: To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that the appropriate procedures and practices were followed in respect of the care that was administered to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24391/11]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (15 Sep 2011)

Patrick O'Donovan: Question 158: To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients transferred from a hospital (details supplied) in County Limerick during the month of January 2011 for the purposes of rehabilitation. [24392/11]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (20 Sep 2011)

Patrick O'Donovan: Question 201: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to introduce the Construction Contracts Bill to Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25011/11]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (20 Sep 2011)

Patrick O'Donovan: Question 220: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a carer's allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; when a decision will issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24461/11]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (20 Sep 2011)

Patrick O'Donovan: Question 238: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding jobseeker's benefit appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [24567/11]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Fraud: Social Welfare Fraud (20 Sep 2011)

Patrick O'Donovan: Question 377: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration has been given by him to introduce amendments to the Data Protection Acts in order that airlines could be compelled to provide details, including passenger name record, to him as a means to combatting social welfare fraud; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24628/11]

ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)

Patrick O'Donovan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important issue. The manner in which the debate has been dragged into a sort of circus shows how serious some people are about trying to resolve the problems in the country's economy.

ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)

Patrick O'Donovan: We have had enough.

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 gardaí. 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?

ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy is calling for a revolution.

ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)

Patrick O'Donovan: A revolution is what Deputy Mac Lochlainn is advocating.

ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)

Patrick O'Donovan: It was Colombia a while ago.

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]