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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Can Mr. Nolan clarify what is happening with the Westport-Athlone route? My second question is for Ms Graham. From 2010 to 2014, what sort of cuts have been made to the NTA's budget? What are the figures? Mr. Nolan said that Bus Éireann made a profit on the Expressway, and I would like to know what profit was made. Anybody will know that in business you win some and lose some and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What is the amount of money?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is nearly a €70 million cut.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is there not a risk all around Ireland in that case that we will leave lucrative places serviced and non-lucrative places abandoned? Is that not what we are doing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I did not mean they do not exist. They are very limited there and in Roscommon.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Will the authority do as I ask for all public representatives around the country? I mentioned Deputies Feighan and Naughten but this also applies to Deputies from Mayo and other counties. Will the process be rolled out rapidly so we can sort out the issues?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: How much is Bus Éireann's profit?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I did not get a response on the Westport-Athlone route.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What is the period of time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: If Bus Éireann is the only operator on the route, does that not prove that someone needs to provide the service? There needs to be some joined-up thinking and help given. It might not be the most attractive route in the world, but it is necessary for rural Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes.

Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: They close them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (24 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 699. To ask the Minister for Health if specific units (details supplied) and any or all of the other mental health facilities in the Castlerea area, County Roscommon, providing psychiatric, geriatric and Alzheimer's services are to be closed down, have their services curtailed or their functions changed in the next 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11943/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (24 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 711. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the services of an ophthalmic physician are not being provided locally in County Longford, despite the fact that an ophthalmic physician was appointed to the post of community ophthalmic physician (details supplied); the reason children from County Longford are still being sent to Athlone, County Westmeath, to attend appointments with an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (24 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 773. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount that was spent on the rebranding of, and new logo for, the Teaching Council, which was funded by the annual levies of teachers nationwide; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11357/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (24 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 774. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the Teaching Council of Ireland has over €16 million of teachers' levies (details supplied) in a bank account, while paying its chief executive officer a salary of over €108,000; her views that this surplus should be to reduce the annual levy, or be invested in the schools; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Data (24 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1011. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of applicants who applied for compensation under the cessation of turf cutting compensation scheme, categorised by year from January 2011 to the end of December 2014 in Ardgraigue Bog (details supplied) in County Galway, site code 002356. [12060/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Data (24 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1012. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of applicants who received monetary compensation and turf deliveries, categorised by year from January 2011 to the end of December 2014, in Ardgraigue Bog (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12061/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Data (24 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1013. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of turf plots on which multiple compensation payments were made and the specific amounts paid for each multiple plot, categorised by year from January 2011 to the end of December 2014, in Ardgraigue Bog, County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12064/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Data (24 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1014. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of applicants who did not meet the criteria of the scheme, that is, were not cutting turf on their plots in any of the five reference years or where their plots are cut out and have no raised bog remaining, categorised by year from January 2011 to the end of December 2014, in Ardgraigue Bog (details supplied) in County...