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Topical Issues: Beef Data Programme (12 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for attending to take my matter on the beef data and genomics programmes. Farmers are receiving the forms to fill in and there is huge discontent in suckler areas. When one looks at the terms and conditions, it is clear that one has to sign up to a six-year contract. If something goes wrong within five years, one will be in trouble...

Topical Issues: Beef Data Programme (12 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the Minister for his reply. We all agree on ensuring the viability of farm families. However, the reality is that a person could have a five star bull today, but if there is a problem at calving from an off-spring of that bull, the bull could be reduced to a two star rating. This would be the same as an animal the person might have had the week before. Farmers will be expected to...

Topical Issues: Beef Data Programme (12 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is it not 2017?

Topical Issues: Beef Data Programme (12 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: That is fair enough, but they will be expected to do that by 2019.

Topical Issues: Beef Data Programme (12 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Someone who bought a bull early this year or last year will have a three or four year old bull that they will have to send to the factory because the animal will not qualify for the scheme. It is as simple as that. If a person works a year for someone, the person's wages are based on that year's work. If farmers do it right year one, year two and year three, they should not be penalised...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Misconduct Allegations (12 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 405. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will refer a Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission complaint, made by a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon, alleging that gardaí failed to adequately investigate an allegation of fraud, to the Independent Review Panel, consisting of two senior and five junior counsel; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (13 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 58. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if it is the case that the rate band changes introduced by her on 1 September 2012 militate disproportionately against working women when they reach pension age, as evidenced by the fact that approximately 61% of those negatively impacted by the rate band changes are women, and approximately 39% are men; while she may have sought to ensure that...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Administration (13 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 116. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will extend the closing date for receipt of completed applications for the green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme by at least one month, in view of the fact that he has imposed new terms and conditions from 5 May 2015, just 12 days prior to the current closing date, which involves a change in the ranking system for Tier 3...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (13 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 505 of 6 May 2015, and notwithstanding the listing of numbers of teaching and teaching support staff and additional teaching posts in the said parliamentary question reply, if she will state, for the record of Dáil Éireann, whether or not she will immediately reverse the 15% cut in resource...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (13 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 199. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm that in order to comply with the water framework directive it will, in future, be necessary to apply water charges to rainwater that has been harvested on the private property of persons and businesses, and stored in tanks below a certain depth underground; if he will indicate the underground depth...

National Dementia Strategy Implementation: Statements (14 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank Deputy Finian McGrath for sharing time with me. I represent the constituency of Roscommon-South Leitrim. County Leitrim has the highest number of people, per capita, with dementia, while County Roscommon has the second highest. The statistics show that our population is ageing and every family has someone, be it a cousin or other relative, who has been touched by dementia. Early...

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is Frankfurt's way.

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Some €300 million.

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is not enough.

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: In 2016.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (14 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 153. To ask the Minister for Health further to this Deputy's correspondence to his Department on 18 March 2015, and the Minister of State's reply of 16 April 2014 (details supplied), if he will ensure that the Health Service Executive has the resources necessary to provide home help and the home care package to those persons in County Roscommon and in the south of County Leitrim who have been...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (19 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 265. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason funding for the school completion programme is no longer ring-fenced; if he will indicate the future of the programme, post-2015; his views on whether the current indeterminate nature of the funding is causing a problem for the programme, its participants and its teachers; whether the ring-fenced funding this programme...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data (26 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 749. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who availed of long-term nursing home care since the introduction of the nursing homes support scheme, also known as the fair deal scheme, from October 2009 to 31 December 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20789/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data (26 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 750. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who availed of the nursing homes support scheme, also known as the fair deal scheme, since its introduction in October 2009 to 31 December 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20790/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data (26 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 751. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who availed of the nursing homes support scheme, also known as the fair deal scheme, since its introduction in October 2009 to 31 December 2013, and who also availed of the ancillary state support loan scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20791/15]