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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Properties (9 Apr 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...will be lost.Rise in Anti-Social Behaviour: Decreased passive surveillance has resulted in increased incidents of anti-social behaviour, including unauthorised access by scramblers and unleashed dogs, posing risks to both visitors and the environment. Overall, the absence of OPW personnel compromises the assurance of visitor safety, necessitating reduced opening hours and heightened...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Properties (9 Apr 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...interventions have not taken place. The lack of OPW personnel has also led to an increase of anti-social behaviour with reports of scramblers accessing the site and a significant increase of dogs being let off leashes. Without OPW staff on site, the OPW can no longer guarantee the safety of visitors to the grounds of Castletown. Rather than closing the site entirely, the OPW took the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (28 Nov 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: The OPW welcomes dogs accompanied by responsible owners across the vast majority of the Phoenix Park except for a small number of areas with restrictions, such as the children’s playground and the Victorian Walled Garden as per the OPW Code of Conduct on dogs, which can be accessed on the website for the Phoenix Park. While the Office of Public Works recognises the importance of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties (27 Jun 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...the maintenance of the collection. Staff oversight is required to ensure that the botanical plant collection is not damaged. This is why there are restrictions on activities such as ball games and dogs are not permitted in the Gardens. As the working day begins at 8:00, opening to a later hour would give rise to the imposition of a twelve hour shift pattern on staff, which would result in...

Crime: Statements (5 May 2016)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...look at their disposable income and allocate free aid on that basis, we need to consider changing how that policy is administered. Where does this end? If a person earning €100,000 decides to give €90,000 away to the cats' and dogs' home, will he or she qualify for free legal aid? Will Members of this House in the future qualify for legal aid because they decide to forfeit...

Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Nov 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...the Department. They have been well enunciated at this stage. Both sides of the House can agree, however, that the current Minister is dealing with a number of criminal justice issues that have dogged Garda management for many years. Everybody recognises that, including political commentators and the Opposition. The Bill before us concerns a scourge that has afflicted this country...

Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety (10 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...? What is the situation as regards the penalty points on their licences and the increase in the cost of insurance premiums as a result of having penalty points? The penalty points system has been dogged by controversy in the recent past. I refer in particular to the whistleblowers and the GoSafe vans. The law needs to be seen to be impartial and blind to interference, be that from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Mobile Telephone Coverage and High Speed Broadband Availability: Discussion (8 Oct 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...not have this problem due to planning and has a single point of contact, as far as I know, to deal with the issue. Ireland, thanks to the legacy of the botched privatisation of Eircom, now has a dogs dinner of a telecommunication set-up. The State's utility was privatised and now another State utility has been asked to come in, through legislation, to take up the slack. I refer to the...

Charities (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Private Members]: Second Stage (21 Jan 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...Charities across the country will be distressed by what has happened in their sector over the past several days. When one sees individuals before an Oireachtas inquiry giving evidence that falls between the-dog-ate-my-homework excuse and that which was given by a certain individual in Dublin Castle once upon a time when he tried to convince the country he found money in a suitcase which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Digital Switchover: Discussion (27 Sep 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...go? I believe the most effective piece of advertising was the "Let's Get Connected" advertisement. The Minister referred to the personalities and the warm faces. Until then, the cartoon cat and dog lost many people. However, when people saw Derek Mooney telling them their televisions would be switched off on 24 October it was very effective. My concern is about isolated rural areas...