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Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (3 Jul 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It was not a success at the beginning when the so-called experts decided what would be done.

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (3 Jul 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: We need to listen to the people who manage and look after the landscape. I want to the Bill to go through and I support the Minister on it.

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I was in for two minutes already.

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I wish to address some points raised by Deputy Boyd Barrett. This is not a city-against-country scenario. Last year, however, some farmers, particularly in Galway and Mayo, were accused of starting fires deliberately. The individuals in question had nothing to do with those fires. There are records available which prove that they, and others who were questioned, had nothing to do with the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (3 Jul 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 412. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive a GLAS payment for 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29177/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (3 Jul 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 413. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive a GLAS payment for 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29178/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Administration (3 Jul 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 414. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the information technology unit will amend the systems to allow the GLAS section make payments to participants who did not receive payment for 2017 due to an information technology issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29179/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Payments (3 Jul 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 531. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason there is a difference in carer's allowance and foster carer's allowance (details supplied). [29431/18]

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: As someone who comes from a farming background and is still farming, I wish to make a few points about issues that were mentioned earlier. I have a hedgecutter with flails and anyone who has driven one would know that it does not throw the cuttings into the hedge. It puts the cuttings behind the vehicle and a person has to clean up the cuttings. That clarification needs to be made. ...

Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Jul 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Under the Government and HSE strategy for mental health, why is A Vision for Change implemented in a different way in County Roscommon than in other counties? Athleague hostel is closed, St. Joseph's in Ballaghaderreen is closed and there is now the situation regarding the Rosalie unit, to which the Tánaiste referred. The families have not been consulted in a proper way and the...

Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Jul 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Hear, hear.

Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Jul 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I urge the Minister to reach a compromise between Deputy Clare Daly's amendment and Deputy Alan Kelly's amendment. I accept there are three amendments in the group. We need to be understanding of the specialised nature of the beer involved. The fellow who goes to the pub every night is not drinking this type of beer every night of the week. As Deputy Danny Healy-Rae said, they are...

Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Jul 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: They would need to have very deep pockets. The Dáil should not leave such an anomaly in legislation. If someone wants to go once a week to a microbrewery to get a six-pack of beer, he or she should not have to do a tour.

Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Jul 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: However, if someone wants to spend some time in a microbrewery and have a drink, he or she should be required to do a tour. We should be able to work out a common-sense approach. I support the amendments and I commend Deputy Kelly on his Bill. We have microbreweries in Roscommon as well. They give employment to areas that may not have the same level of employment that is available in...

Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Jul 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: When one looks at where breweries are situated around the country, in many cases they are in small rural villages or townlands. It involves people who believe in something and who probably had very little money. In fairness, in some cases, the local enterprise offices help them, but in other cases, these people followed their passion, kept their belief, saw their goal and went for it. We...

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill. As I have pointed out previously, there is a problem for builders. People have been giving out about them and they have a lot to answer for down through the years. At the end of the day, however, we need builders to build houses. There is also a problem with getting the money. As we know, investment companies are looking for up to 15% and a...

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Until we decide to have the attitude that we will get them built and that the reams of paperwork will start being taken out of the way, and where we will build them that we have the land ready, and that there will be no law agents making millions of euro out of sending lettereens over and back stating this and that is wrong, and then someone else in the local authority sending it to the...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The Minister of State referred to the Ireland 2040 plan. I do not have an objection to a planning regulator. We are aware of the housing targets in each part of the State but there is a fear, once a planning regulator is in place, that most of the houses in Leitrim, for example, would be built in Carrick-on-Shannon and there would be quotas in each Border, midlands and west area. Leinster...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It would be the Minister.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (10 Jul 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 393. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made on a medical card application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30057/18]