Parliamentary questions

Bus Éireann

Michael Fitzmaurice

601. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the individual sums agreed to be paid and the actual sums paid for the provision by Bus Éireann of its public service obligations on the network of transport services in Athlone, Balbriggan, Cork, Drogheda, Dundalk, Galway, Limerick, Navan, Sligo and Waterford operated by Bus Éireann in each of the years 2009 to 2015, inclusive, in tabular form. [11522/16]

Bus Éireann

Michael Fitzmaurice

602. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the average amount paid to Bus Éireann, calculated on a per kilometre basis, for meeting its public service obligations on the network of transport services in Athlone, Balbriggan, Cork, Drogheda, Dundalk, Galway, Limerick, Navan, Sligo and Waterford, for each of the years 2009 to 2015, inclusive, in tabular form. [11523/16]

Bus Éireann

Michael Fitzmaurice

603. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the individual agreed scheduled transport services to be performed by Bus Éireann in Athlone, Balbriggan, Cork, Drogheda, Dundalk, Galway, Limerick, Navan, Sligo and Waterford and to confirm for each of the years that the National Transport Authority had at all times a verifiable system in place to be absolutely certain that each of these scheduled services were actually performed and that Bus Éireann returned to the National Transport Authority any subsidy received in respect of any service not performed for each of the years 2009 to 2015, inclusive, in scheduled format. [11525/16]

Farm Assist Scheme Data

Michael Fitzmaurice

5. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of farm assist, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8808/16]

Student Grant Scheme Eligibility

Michael Fitzmaurice

409. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Education and Skills why it is difficult for persons (details supplied) under 23 years of age to apply independently for a third level grant in their own right. [7346/16]

School Transport Data

Michael Fitzmaurice

653. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Education and Skills to provide further information on the statement of the chief executive of Bus Éireann last year that Bus Éireann made €4 million profit from school transport and that this money was given to Bus Éireann to buy new school transport buses but spent on school transport information and technology development; the amount of profit from school buses, the expenditure on new buses and the amount spent on information and technology projects in each year since 2010 in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5562/16]

School Transport Data

Michael Fitzmaurice

654. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Education and Skills the average cost of the maintenance of buses used for school transport by Bus Éireann in tabular form; the average cost of the maintenance of buses per bus, per year; the number of buses being charged for maintenance; the average number of buses actually being operated on routes each day; the average percentage of buses being charged for as opposed to the number of buses actually operating the routes; the average number of kilometres run by the buses; the average market value of the buses referred to; the average age of the buses in the columns; the written down net value after depreciation on a year-on-year basis; the average cost of maintenance of the said buses on a per kilometre basis; and the maintenance charges paid to Bus Éireann for school transport, exclusive of the management charges, for each of the financial years 2005 to 2015. [5568/16]