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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (27 Mar 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: First, I want to wish the Minister and the Minister of State, Deputy Harkin, well as I did not formally do it. For a number of years, I have lobbied about veterinary colleges and I welcome the announcement where Letterkenny and Mountbellew was going to be one of them and Carlow-Kilkenny and Waterford was going to be the other. My understanding was this was going to kick off in September...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (27 Mar 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: There are probably 200 youngsters out of the country at the moment because UCD is not fit to take the numbers who are looking for this. I understand that there is a lot of setting up to it, but the problem is, as the Minister knows in his position, that a delay of three or four months does not work in veterinary or in college because if it is not ready for September 2025, it will not start...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (27 Mar 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the Minister for his reply. I will follow the matter up with him as the months go by.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (26 Mar 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 109. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department allowed welfare officers or offices to pay for repairs to vehicles registered outside this country whilst here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14452/25]

Support for Householders, Businesses and Farmers Affected by Storm Éowyn: Motion [Private Members] (1 Apr 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion. We need to learn many lessons from Storm Éowyn. We can blame and give out, but we need to be prepared for the next one and do a post mortem on what needs to be improved. In fairness, the Minister, Deputy Calleary, has been helpful whenever I have gone to him. I would say his Department has no closing date in its letters. You need...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The Taoiseach has spoken about building 300,000 houses over the next few years and I wish him luck in that. The facts are at the moment that 85% of the towns of Ireland do not have capacity to provide extra water for new housing. We know the budget that Irish Water is working with. Its ten-year plan is to bring the network up to specification under EU regulations and is based on...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The facts are that of the €10 billion that is proposed, €5 billion is to comply with EU legislation. It is to bring plants that are not compliant at the moment into compliance. Another €3 billion of it is for the Shannon project. What the Government is saying, then, is that the Government has €2 billion over five years to produce an additional 30,000 houses...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Policies (1 Apr 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 595. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in light of storm Éowyn, whether his Department has changed policy on planting distances from roadsides and overhead cables; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15250/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Policies (1 Apr 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 596. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the setback distance from the roadsides and near overhead wires before storm Éowyn, and now on licences issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15251/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (1 Apr 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 597. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a union dispute in the forestry section of his Department is affecting the licensing process, or whether it is resolved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15252/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (8 Apr 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 243. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the roll-out of brown bins by waste management companies will be mandatory for households in rural areas, in line with the waste action plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16638/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Apr 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 525. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 376 and 584 of 5 November 2024, with the report in relation to the extra funding requested for the foundations having been sent into the Department, the status of this application; when a decision will be made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17336/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Funding (8 Apr 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 752. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in relation to a breeding grant fund (details supplied), which is funded by this Department and administered by Horse Sport Ireland, if the new requirement for applications is to provide a complete insurance policy before any funds can be accessed, and whether this has been stipulated by the Department directly; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Functions (29 Apr 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 182. To ask the Taoiseach when the disability unit that was to be established in the Department of An Taoiseach will be put into operation. [21139/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (29 Apr 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 551. To ask the Minister for Finance when a review of the inheritance tax threshold will be initiated to include those persons deceased who do not have children and wish to leave their estate to a person to ensure there is no discrimination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18629/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Apr 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 930. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the requirement for professionals who wish to extend their registration with the Teaching Council in order to provide home tuition, to undertake additional courses (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19815/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Apr 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 931. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the requirement for professionals in fields such as occupational therapists, speech and language therapists and psychologists to be registered with the Teaching Council in order to work as home tutors (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19816/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Apr 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 932. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason qualified professionals are required to register with the Training Council; the reason home tutors working under the home tuition grant scheme for her Department need to register with an outside body such as the Teaching Council; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19817/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Student Visas (29 Apr 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1493. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if 30,000 student visas will be given out this year to international students; and the requirements to access these visas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19922/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Student Visas (29 Apr 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1494. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality in light of the housing crisis, whether it is prudent to give 30,000 student visas to international students who will be requiring accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19923/25]