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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Flooding at Ballycar on the Galway-Limerick Railway and Investment in Heavy Rail: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What are the new trains Iarnród Éireann is buying?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Flooding at Ballycar on the Galway-Limerick Railway and Investment in Heavy Rail: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: They are diesel.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Flooding at Ballycar on the Galway-Limerick Railway and Investment in Heavy Rail: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: That means it will be done by the end of May.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I will be supporting this amendment. Even if one was just to go on the precautionary principle, be the person young, middle aged or older, we never want to see or hear of anyone in pain. This will go down and be remembered. Knowledge in medicine is changing constantly. 6 o’clock I do not think we can risk not putting this in the Bill. A few years down the road, if more evidence...

Report on Procurement Process Audit of National Broadband Plan: Statements (4 Dec 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The report confirms that the integrity of my constituency colleague, Deputy Naughten, was, as I always said, never in doubt. An earlier speaker stated that broadband is a privilege. It is not. Rather, it is a necessity throughout the country. The Minister has held responsibility for various Departments in his time. He is well aware that many people wish to meet him. If his diary for...

Report on Procurement Process Audit of National Broadband Plan: Statements (4 Dec 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I asked the Minister whether, in his ministerial experience, it is possible to meet a member of the Department outside normal working hours if that person's diary is full. I ask the Minister to nail down a timeline for the evaluation process because many people are wondering when the roll out will happen. He may not be able to give a completion date, but when will the evaluation process...

Report on Procurement Process Audit of National Broadband Plan: Statements (4 Dec 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Will it be completed before Christmas?

Local Government Bill 2018: Instruction to Committee (4 Dec 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I will be brief. We saw one part of the Local Government Bill 2018 a week ago. It is coming in dribs and drabs. I do not fully understand where the Minister of State is going when he talks about the powers that elected or unelected committees will have. What is he using? I would like to go back to Galway. As Deputies will be aware, the first thing that is written about Galway in the...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I have listened to the debate in recent days and I have spoken twice. I believe in the necessity of keeping data and ensuring that they are compiled because they may help people in the long term. I have heard Members talking about different nationalities. There are those in parts of this country who do not have the same social and economic opportunities as others. We need to compile data,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (4 Dec 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the governance manual for primary schools 2015 to 2019 and the Education Act 1998 are the only measures in place governing the removal of persons by a patron from a primary school's board of management; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50880/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Resettlement Programme (4 Dec 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 240. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will suspend his plans to house asylum seekers in a facility (details supplied) until the legal proceedings draw to a conclusion in view of legal proceedings that are now in the High Court regarding the facility. [50384/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (4 Dec 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 421. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will issue on a medical card application made by a person (details supplied) on 19 September 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50766/18]

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I will not speak for long. I just want to make a few points. In recent weeks, many Deputies have met doctors, nurses, midwives and others in the health care sector. We are used to listening to different scenarios. Some of the people we met have stated that they may have to leave work. That happening in any country would be sad. We could have done this in a way that allowed people to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (5 Dec 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 201. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) who was referred to the audiology department in University Hospital Galway will receive an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51012/18]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: In fairness to the Department, everyone agrees that there is a large financial shortfall in Galway. The first line of the report on Galway points out that it needs funding. Some moves are afoot and the Minister of State has had two meetings with us, for which we thank him, but this is not just a question of €500,000 or €1 million, it is a question of many millions of euro....

Climate Change: Statements (6 Dec 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I will split my time with Deputy Catherine Martin.

Climate Change: Statements (6 Dec 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: We need to put things into context. In the past seven or eight years, 400,000 more people are working in Ireland. If we put wings on them, we will have a bigger carbon footprint. We have to make sure whatever measures are introduced do not hit people the wrong way, especially those from the poorer sections of our community. Many things can be done to help income. Unfortunately the dairy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: In the procurement process, a process I am familiar with in other areas, am I correct in saying that the tenderer fills in the document and puts in their tender bid, showing their capacity to do something, staff numbers, work done and pricing? When Eir, enet and the ESB were in it, would those figures have been in before any of these contacts were made?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Had Eir or SIRO not even got to the point of the monetary cost when they pulled out of the process?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Would I be correct in saying, and I am coming from the private sector in the line of a bill of quantum, that those that give out a contract generally have a figure for the cost of something six months or a year before they put it out to tender?