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Social Services and Support: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (15 Jul 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I commend Deputy Tom Fleming for tabling this motion and the Government for accepting it. However, implementing the proposals set out in the motion will be a separate matter. I hope all of Deputy Fleming’s proposals are implemented by the Government. We all know of the increasing ageing population in the country, particularly in the west, be it parents, aunts, uncles or...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme (15 Jul 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 334. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of persons affected by the cessation of turf cutting and who have applied for compensation in the Carrickynaghtan Bog national heritage area (details supplied) in County Roscommon under the cessation of turf cutting compensation scheme for national heritage areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29238/15]

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Over the past seven years, the people have struggled in many ways to come through the recession. Throughout Ireland, people struggle with mortgages. They are raising families in difficult situations. I saw a report which states grocery prices have gone up approximately 70%. People are struggling to send their kids to college. We have property tax. Elderly people will get 45 minutes of...

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: We do not want to know about them.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am not long in the Dáil but after listening to that waffle a person would lose the will to be here. The same ding-dong goes on every day. I look around me and no one answers a question straight. The fact is those politicians who are gone have given the two fingers to the State. We need to do something as legislators to stop what is going on. Go out on the ground and listen to the...

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: If we say it cannot be done, then we are giving up as a country. I am appealing to the Tánaiste. Altogether, I think there would be support right around the House. We could work together and make sure this will not go on. There are senior civil servants who have retired on massive pensions as well. This cannot go on, when we see people struggling on €20,000, €30,000...

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: We are €208 billion in debt.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Why not leave it reduced?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (16 Jul 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 652. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in County Galway will be going to tender as the project is urgent and all design is complete and approved by her Department and the necessary planning permission is in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29681/15]

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: When I read the Fennelly report I wonder whether it is like two lives. When I go to one page I read one thing but there is nearly a contradiction on the next page. I must question one thing. Were the participants or the players too big to give the real truth regarding what went on? I believe, and I do not think anyone in the country would disagree, that given what went on during the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Applications (22 Sep 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 482. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the figures of those who applied for the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30511/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (22 Sep 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 556. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are situations where land eligibility may be inspected without the requirement of a control report being provided to the applicant or their agent; if he will provide a list of such scenarios; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32214/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (22 Sep 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 557. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine pursuant to Article 6 of the EU Regulation 1122/2009, if he will provide the defined minimum requirements for good agricultural and environmental condition, on the basis of the framework set out in Annex III of 1122/2009; his views that each of the characteristics set out in Article 6 have been properly taken into account, as...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Inspections (22 Sep 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 558. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 142 of 26 March 2015 and 366 of 21 April 2015, his views that an applicant has the right to refuse the inspectors entry; the way this right may be refused if an applicant to the schemes is not informed of the inspectors' presence on the applicant's lands; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Inspections (22 Sep 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 559. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his staff may enter lands where one or more land owners, who are not applicants of any scheme, and therefore have not signed up to the terms, have not provided him with permission to enter their lands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32217/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (22 Sep 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expected commencement date for construction of a school (details supplied) in County Galway; if the tender process is complete; if all the legal issues with the site are sorted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31653/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Wildlife Protection (22 Sep 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1682. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in view of the fact that the activities of commercial shoot operators targeting woodcock in the main, particularly in the western counties, are frequently unregulated and the need to regulate the shooting of wild animals and birds in the interest of conservation and sustainability, if she will provide a commencement date for...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Wildlife Regulations (22 Sep 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1708. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will clarify Regulation 25 of the European Communities (Birds and Habitats) Regulations 2011; if she is satisfied that landowners are aware of this obligation; if landowners have been properly notified and made aware of all the activities requiring consent and, in particular, other restrictions applying to the site; in the...

Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: As a nation, we look at our children and decide how much we cherish them and at our elderly and decide how well they are cared for. Old age comes to each and every one of us. The west has the highest population of elderly people per capitaof the regions, with counties Leitrim and Roscommon having the highest number of people per capitawith dementia in the country. In recent years, the...

Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: In the west, we have care homes such as the community care home in Carrick-on-Shannon, Áras Mhuire in Tuam and, above all, the Sacred Heart Hospital in Roscommon which passed an inspection with flying colours in terms of the care provided by staff. Residents are happy in the home. People in Roscommon suffered a blow when the accident and emergency unit of the local hospital was closed....