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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Appeals (31 Jan 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 637. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department can take whatever time it sees fit to send files to the Agriculture Appeals Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3976/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Appeals (31 Jan 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 638. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will introduce a regulation whereby if his Department has not sent a file to the agricultural appeals board within one month the appeal will go in favour of the person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3977/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Eligibility (31 Jan 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 643. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason his Department has not sent a file requested by the Agriculture Appeals Office for a person (details supplied) to the independent appeals office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4009/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Education and Training Provision (31 Jan 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 749. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of tourism and hospitality skills training positions allocated to the counties of Roscommon and Galway in 2015 and 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4347/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Education and Training Provision (31 Jan 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 750. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount of funding allocated to counties Roscommon and Galway for tourism and hospitality skills training in both 2015 and 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4348/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Education and Training Provision (31 Jan 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 751. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the agency or Government body which has oversight and responsibility for tourism and hospitality skills training here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4349/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges within the Organic Farming Sector: Discussion (31 Jan 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the Chairman for the opportunity to speak and I welcome the delegation. The nub of the issue relates to farmers with under 20 ha. The European Union made a ruling that what it terms double payment cannot be made for the same piece of ground. The Department clearly made its decision on that. The problem is that a farmer who was in the organic scheme when GLAS was initiated could...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges within the Organic Farming Sector: Discussion (31 Jan 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is the rule not that there has to be 50% of ground in concrete and 50% not? If there is a lie back area behind a slatted shed and at the same size as the slatted shed, would that not cover the requirement?

Roads Funding: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I support the motion. We have seen a deterioration in roads right around the country in recent years. In the early 2000s and prior to that, roads were resurfaced once in every ten years. Now that less money is around for that purpose, the likelihood of a road being resurfaced has become once in every 20 years. That is the reason we have seen such a deterioration in the condition of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Funding (1 Feb 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the €800,000 funding required to upgrade the Galway and Roscommon Educational and Training Board sub-office in Roscommon town in view of the fact that the building has not received any capital investment since 1985; when he expects the funding to be made available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4913/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Grades Review (1 Feb 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 238. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current terms and conditions of the offer available to the CPSU relating to the merger of the staff officer grade with the executive officer grade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4770/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Grades Review (1 Feb 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 239. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the merger of the staff officer grade and executive officer grade will occur (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4771/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Grades Review (1 Feb 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 240. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the merger of the staff officer grade and executive officer grade would have continued on the basis of the offer from his Department or if his Department would not have gone through with the grade merger had the CPSU membership in its recent ballot (details supplied) voted not to go to arbitration. [4772/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Young Farmers Scheme (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 28. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the plan to deal with the forgotten farmers as outlined in the programme for Government will be implemented and up and running before the end of 2017. [4879/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 30. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the appropriate instruction to his Department to pay farmers manually for the period which they are owed and in turn deal with the problems which the information technology department is having before the next GLAS payment in December 2017 (details supplied). [4878/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit Eligibility (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 176. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to extend entitlement to jobseeker's benefit to persons who have paid S-class contributions in the relevant year for assessment of entitlement; when these changes will be in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5119/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit Eligibility (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 177. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person making a claim for jobseekers benefit in 2017 who is currently paying a class-A contribution, but who has 52 paid class-S contributions only in 2015, the relevant year for assessment, has an entitlement to jobseeker's benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5120/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Eligibility (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 178. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to extend entitlement to invalidity pension to persons who have paid S-class contributions in the relevant year for assessment of entitlement; when these changes will be in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5121/17]

Hospital Waiting Lists: Statements (9 Feb 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I ask the Minister to gather enough money together - be it €100 million or €150 million, as suggested by Fianna Fáil - for the NTPF so that we can start hitting the problem straight away. I ask him to do that for the Dáil. I also ask him to give an undertaking that from now we will have the overall figure. If the Minister gives those two commitments today, that will...

Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Feb 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It was agreed in the programme for Government that Ireland's future forestry policy would be the subject of a mid-term review this year. Such a review is necessary because outside interests like vulture funds are putting pressure on family farms by buying land in local areas at prices that local people cannot afford. It was announced last week that a vulture fund from Helsinki is buying up...