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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Applications (5 Apr 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 301. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason some persons are having difficulty applying online for BPS due to the ongoing GLAS problem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16967/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Applications (5 Apr 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 302. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions he plans to take to rectify the issue which some persons are having where they are having difficulty applying online for BPS due to the ongoing GLAS problem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16968/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: A form circulating in some counties, including Roscommon, is requiring people who have been on the rural social scheme, RSS, for ten or 12 years to reapply. This was never the case previously. Why would someone who has been on the RSS for that long need to reapply? As long as they met the criteria, they used to just sign their names every year. That is understandable.

Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The body that supplies the scheme for the Department has circulated a new form that has no heading.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service Conciliation and Arbitration Scheme (11 Apr 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 435. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason a union (details supplied) which by their own published financial accounts for 2015 and 2016 has provided funding (details supplied) to a campaign and is still being recognised under the conciliations and arbitration scheme for the Civil Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17581/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Young Farmers Scheme Eligibility (11 Apr 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 648. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to an issue concerning persons who have started the green certificate course (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17530/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Young Farmers Scheme Eligibility (11 Apr 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 649. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a copy of the correspondence from the European Union refusing to allow the State to give national reserve to a person who enrolled in a course in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17531/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Eligibility (11 Apr 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 650. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason he has not provided funding to persons classed as forgotten farmers; if he will provide a copy of correspondence from the European Union not allowing Ireland the special category; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17532/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TAMS Eligibility (11 Apr 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 651. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason contractors that supply services to farmers are not included in TAMS for building sheds or for grants for slurry equipment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17533/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Programme for Government (11 Apr 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 652. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason there is no facility in TAMS for a MATS grant to provide two bays per year for three years as agreed in the programme for Government to help animal welfare and create employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17534/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (11 Apr 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 677. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to make the currently voluntary contributions which farmers can opt to pay to the ICBF when ordering tags compulsory; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17886/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (11 Apr 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 678. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to make the suppliers of cattle tags to farmers pay a compulsory contribution or fee to the ICBF on tags sold; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17887/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Poultry Industry (11 Apr 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 682. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to put in place a fund to support persons who are effected by the drop in eggs sales in view of recent reports of avian influenza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17982/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Poultry Industry (11 Apr 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 683. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to put in place a public health information campaign to inform the public that eggs for sale in the Irish market are fit for human consumption to combat the drop in sales of eggs in view of the recent avian influenza reports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17983/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Poultry Industry (11 Apr 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 684. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason free range poultry farmers have been advised to take birds indoors in efforts to combat the spread of avian influenza; his plans to rectify this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17984/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Poultry Industry (11 Apr 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 685. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a decision has not been made by his Department to lift the precautionary measures being taken by poultry farmers to combat the spread of avian influenza on the instruction of his Department, which have been lifted at a European level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17985/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Young Farmers Scheme Eligibility (11 Apr 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 697. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a person who started green certificate education in September 2016 will qualify for the young farmer national reserve scheme in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18120/17]

Garda Commissioner: Motion [Private Members] (12 Apr 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I support the motion proposed by Sinn Féin. It must be acknowledged by everybody that there are many good gardaí and that a lot of good work is done throughout the country. Unfortunately, we have moved from scandal to scandal and problem to problem. This is doing no good to either Garda morale or the public because many people raise eyebrows every time they hear statistics or...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the Rural Independent Group for sharing time. The people in the group water schemes have been basically neglected in the past few years, although the Minister said earlier they were not. As I am chairman of a scheme, I know the reality is that the subvention has been cut in order that those in the schemes had to go to members to get more money. They have been pushed forwards...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes, it is in the excess. If one adds the litres and multiplies the sum to take a year into account, one realises those are the facts that emerge. I have always said there should be an allowance for water but if people waste water beyond that, there is obviously a leak. People do not genuinely waste water but 90% of most leaks are from what we call the stopcock to the house. Is Irish...