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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Indemnity: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Perhaps Mr. McHugh could come back to us on this point. I understand the issues concerning parks and so on. In the countryside, we have small towns of 50, 100 or 300 people. Those people volunteer because there are no council or park workers. They have their own little insurance. They call themselves Tidy Towns groups, and in fairness the Minister for Rural and Community Development,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Indemnity: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Does Mr. McHugh know anything about the 1,000-car rule?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Indemnity: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: At the time of a storm such as Storm Emma, as I pointed out at the time of the snow, we headed off ourselves and just had the work done. When Storm Emma came along, however, there was an announcement from the State. In the case of people doing goodwill work or good deeds, do the councils or IPB Insurance provide insurance cover? If, for example, somebody was choking and one went to save...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Indemnity: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: This point is by way of a proposal to the committee here. Would IPB Insurance be willing to sit on and be part of a group including a representative from the county managers, as well as representatives of the partnerships, Tidy Towns associations and the groups mentioned, together with one or two members of our committee? Such a representative of the county managers would need to be - with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (21 May 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if discretion can be given to a national school in circumstances in which pupil numbers drop below the required amount for a three teacher school for a 12 month period in order to boost the numbers back to the required figure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21679/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Staff Retirements (21 May 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason €153 per fortnight is being withheld from a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21823/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Staff Retirements (21 May 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will issue to a person (details supplied) who has applied for retirement due to ill health; the reason this decision is been delayed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21824/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Under the programme for Government an application was to be made to Europe for TEN-T funding for the west of Ireland. Almost three years on, it had not been done. The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, gave an undertaking two months ago that it would be done. My understanding is that it has not yet been done. Can the Minister confirm if it has been done, or not? When...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Commission (28 May 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when teachers who corrected cookery examinations for home economics as part of the junior certificate cycle in March 2019 will be paid by the State Examinations Commission; if there is a delay; if so, the reason therefor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22330/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Funding (28 May 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 402. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a community childcare centre (details supplied) will be granted Pobal funding to erect an extension to accommodate the growing number of parents who are eager for their children to avail of the services on offer; when Pobal funding announcements will take place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22491/19]

Loss of Biodiversity and Extinction of Species: Statements (29 May 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Do not blame farmers.

Loss of Biodiversity and Extinction of Species: Statements (29 May 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The Deputy should not blame farmers.

Loss of Biodiversity and Extinction of Species: Statements (29 May 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Deputy Burton should see whether there were any farmers involved.

Loss of Biodiversity and Extinction of Species: Statements (29 May 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Not in the west.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff Appeals Mechanism (11 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of times in the past five years national schools that were in danger of losing a teacher due to a drop in pupil numbers won an appeal to the primary staffing appeals board and maintained its number of teachers for the following academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23535/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Contracts (11 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 401. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 306 of 5 March 2019, the number of deliveries of one carton of disposable incontinence products the contractor was paid for by the HSE; the number of deliveries of one carton of disposable incontinence products the contractor invoiced the HSE for; the rationale for the rates of these deliveries (details supplied),...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Recycling Policy (11 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 762. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to repeat the tyre recycling scheme in 2019 or in early 2020; if so, the amount he envisages would be allocated to the scheme; if centres will be operated in each county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23558/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Redeployment (12 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 94. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, when a person transfers from one Department to another due to no fault of their own within the Civil Service, the person is entitled to bring his or her pay entitlement and emoluments with him or her; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24422/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (12 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 207. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a number of GLAS payments (details supplied) are being held up, with his Department officials citing problems with information technology systems as the reason behind the delays; if the system is adequate; when the payments will be issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24459/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (13 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 70. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the previous tender for the provision of external workplace investigation services for Departments and other public bodies established in March 2015 provides for scenarios (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24714/19]