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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (13 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 222 of 29 January 2019 and 253 of 19 February 2019, the reason a board of management member may cease to be a member of the board at the decision or discretion of the patron, which is not provided for in section 16 of the Education Act 1998 and-or in the governance manual for primary schools 2015 to 2019...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (13 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 170. 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 officials citing problems with information technology systems as the reason behind the delays; if the system is adequate; when payments will be issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24677/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (18 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a commitment with the amalgamation of three primary schools in Tuam, County Galway, has not been agreed by 1 September 2019, if DEIS band 1 status will be denied for the new school entity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25002/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (18 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if DEIS band 1 status can still be granted to the new single primary school in Tuam, County Galway, after 1 September 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25003/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (18 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if DEIS Band 1 status cannot be granted to the new single primary school in (details supplied) after 1 September 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25004/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (18 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if DEIS band 1 status currently held cannot be revoked or withdrawn in the event of a full amalgamation not being complete by 1 September 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25005/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (18 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he or his predecessors have made direct contact by phone to a person (details supplied) concerning the amalgamation of three Catholic primary schools; if so, the nature and content of the communication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25006/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (18 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the directions with time limits given to the representatives of an archdiocese (details supplied) concerning the amalgamation of three Catholic primary schools and the creation of a single new school entity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25007/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (18 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a design team has been appointed for a proposed Roman Catholic primary school in Tuam, County Galway; if so, the person or body; when they were appointed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25008/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (18 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funds have been allocated in capital budgets or otherwise for the construction of the new proposed Roman Catholic primary school in Tuam, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25009/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Staff (18 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 363. To ask the Minister for Health when additional staff will be allocated to the primary care centre in Roscommon town to enable medical assessments for the primary medical certificate to be carried out on patients who have applied for the primary medical certificate and whose assessments have been put on hold for a minimum of three months as a result of staff shortages; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Preparations (18 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 520. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the submission made by his Department to the European Commission for emergency Brexit funding for the beef sector will be published; if a copy of same will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25104/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tuberculosis Eradication Programme (18 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 521. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason he has not invited representatives from the beef plan group to attend meetings of the TB forum; when the next meeting of the forum will take place; if beef plan representatives will be invited to contribute at future meetings of the forum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25105/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (18 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 652. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will receive a decision on the review of a disability allowance application in which a review was requested and no decision has been made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25612/19]

Home Help: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: There is a serious crisis with home help hours and people being refused the service. On top of this, over the past few days we have heard that many people are being held in hospital with the fair deal scheme in chaos. If the truth were told, with the fiascoes of the likes of the national children’s hospital, there is penny-pinching going on in other services. HSE staff tell us that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank Ms Lennon for her presentation. I am looking at Eir's map of Castlecomer. Why has Eir gone a long distance out one road? I understand that, from where Eir was supplying the broadband, it could go 2 km either way. Why has one leg gone completely down one road? I noticed that. To be clear, Ms Lennon was saying that the way in which they are supplying the 300,000 people means the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: So that is €70 more. Secondly, Eir is bringing it through wire. I know that and, if a person brings it by duct to where the pole is, is Ms Lennon saying that, under the national broadband plan, there was a clause that it had to be brought to within so many metres of a house, or brought right to the house in every case? Third, for clarity, if Eir has €200 million in its back...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I will think of them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It was tough luck if one lived on some other road, in terms of density. Is that it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I do not want to interrupt Ms Lennon but she might clarify one aspect. We were told at the time that Eir would not be given the licence. It came out later on that the EU forced the Irish Government to let Eir do what it said it would do for the simple reason that it would not be allowed to include it in the intervention area.