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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (19 Feb 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 635. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 707 of 12 February 2019, if a community employment scheme supervisor can remain on the same wages if he or she is transferred to a different scheme due to a merger and is demoted in title to assistant supervisor; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8343/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commencement of Legislation (19 Feb 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 651. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to commence the remaining sections of the Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2018 in particular section 8, in view of the fact it is holding up roadworks to access forests, grant payments and the supply of timber to sawmills; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7677/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Costs (20 Feb 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 94. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to situations by which persons who may need to go into a nursing home are seeing insurance companies in some instances increasing their house insurance premiums by nearly four times the original amount in addition to requesting that the electricity and water be turned off; if legislation can be brought forward which would...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Meat Processing Plant Inspections (20 Feb 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 184. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of carcasses graded by mechanical machine before it was found to be out of sync rechecked to determine if their respective grades were accurate on occasions when a mechanical grading machine in a meat processing plant was found to be working out of sync and the factory reverted to manual grading; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Meat Processing Plant Inspections (20 Feb 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 185. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 526 of 12 February 2019, the number of carcasses checked at the start of each day to ensure the machine is operating within the limits in view of the fact that the return to service protocol of mechanical grading machines require at least 100 carcasses to be checked to make sure that they are...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Trans European Transport Network Programme (20 Feb 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason Ireland did not apply for the revision of the TEN-T core network including applying for the reinstatement of the cross-Border Western Arc in the first three months as promised in A Programme for A Partnership Government almost three years ago; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8639/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Trans European Transport Network Programme (20 Feb 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 211. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Western Arc route is being excluded from the TEN-T core network in order to ensure funding is available for the development of the Dublin metro; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8640/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Payments (21 Feb 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 193. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 618 of 18 December 2018, when a decision will issue in relation to a review of a carer's allowance application submitted in April 2018 by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8855/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (21 Feb 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 207. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the capital allocations for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan will be distributed to county councils in 2019; the reason for the delay in distributing the funding to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8827/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes (26 Feb 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 252 on 5 February 2019, the reason two public bodies under the remit of his Department, SOLAS and QQI are continuing to pass the responsibility of eligible persons applying for a waiver to the certification fees from one to the other; the bodies that must deal with eligible persons applying for a waiver;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Certification (26 Feb 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason SOLAS is continuing to add additional conditions onto the renewal of the safe pass cards in the absence of the proposed draft regulations (details supplied) which will provide the additional power to add their own conditions; if SOLAS will suspend these additional requirements until the draft regulations come into law; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (26 Feb 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 316. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the Spinraza treatment to be made available to sufferers of SMA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9129/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (26 Feb 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 317. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be made available for the Spinraza treatment for sufferers of SMA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9130/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Identification Schemes (26 Feb 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 441. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the definition of a suckler beef cow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9024/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tuberculosis Incidence (26 Feb 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 442. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of herds restricted due to TB; the number of restricted herds that took in cattle between the date of their last clear test and the date on which they were initially restricted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9025/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Meat Processing Plant Inspections (26 Feb 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 443. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 200 to 202 of 7 February 2019, when a mechanical grading machine is found to be out of sync, the person or body that carries out the service on the machine before a subsequent classification check can be carried out by officials from his Department; the adjustments or corrections made and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Meat Processing Plant Inspections (26 Feb 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 444. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the service audit trail that exists to ensure that adjustments made to mechanical grading machines to bring them back within EU defined tolerances are not intentionally or accidentally changed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9027/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme (26 Feb 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 445. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 495 of 5 February 2019, the number of herds in receipt of the beef data and genomics programme payments that have more than one animal registered in their herd that is not identified as a beef breed as defined by the scheme guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9028/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (26 Feb 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 487. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a tender process exists for finance companies being promoted through advertising at Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland conferences, whereby the authority is promoting private finance companies to assist in retrofitting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9433/19]

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate on this detailed document. It is easy to look back, but when David Cameron tried to renegotiate some elements of Britain's relationship with the EU, if agreement could have been reached at that stage, we would not have gone through what we have in recent years. The foresight, unfortunately, was not there at the time. I fear that in the...