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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Operations: Discussion with An Garda Síochána (21 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: I welcome the Commissioner and his colleagues. I thank them for the excellent work they do. I acknowledge the great work every day of the week of rank and file gardaí up and down the country. I have listened very carefully to the argument put by the Commissioner for the closure of Garda stations. He has contradicted himself a number of times today. He states that this is not about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Operations: Discussion with An Garda Síochána (21 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: I have more questions. That is one question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Operations: Discussion with An Garda Síochána (21 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: If that is the way the Chairman wants to conduct the matter, that is fine. This point is tied into the same question. The Commissioner has stated the reason is about being out and about and seeing what is happening. If gardaí spend the same hours in the community centre as they spent in the Garda station, where is the sense of that? When it comes to better policing on the ground, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Operations: Discussion with An Garda Síochána (21 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: I will.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Operations: Discussion with An Garda Síochána (21 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: Can the Commissioner sell the concept better? Can he explain it properly to me?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Operations: Discussion with An Garda Síochána (21 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: People have built up relationships with member of the Garda Síochána through the neighbourhood watch scheme. There is a relationship based on trust. The Commissioner knows the local garda cannot be inside every shop, or minding elderly people who live in estates. The people watching out will contact their local garda and state their suspicions. By removing the garda from the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Staff Redeployment (21 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills regarding the additional staff working in the Student Universal Support Ireland, if they received the necessary training, the type of training they are undergoing and the number of days or weeks of training they will receive and the location at which they are being trained; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51692/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Staff Redeployment (21 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional staff that have been drafted in to deal with the debacle in the Student Universal Support Ireland grant processing section in the last two months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51695/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Support Schemes (21 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the student assistance fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51870/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Support Schemes (21 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding student maintenance grants (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51871/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Persons (21 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the most up to date homelessness figures for Counties Limerick, Cork and Kerry, for the period of October 2011-October 2012, in tabular form highlighting the number of persons that had actually presented homeless or were deemed to be homeless during that period; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (21 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a full-time Garda will be assigned to the Waterville area as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51760/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Commonage Division (21 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm that the proposals regarding the minimum and maximum stocking rates for sheep has now been deferred until there is proper consultation with the farming groups and proper thought and consideration is given to the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51758/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Homeless Persons (21 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the most up to date homelessness figures for Counties Limerick, Cork and Kerry, for the period of October 2011-October 2012, in tabular form highlighting the number of persons that had actually presented homeless or were deemed to be homeless during that period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51765/12]

Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (20 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: Deputy Hogan is the Minister now. He should not forget that.

Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (20 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: The Minister is very worried about us all of a sudden.

Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (20 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: They will be consumed by the local authorities.

Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (20 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the Ceann Comhairle's office for allowing me this time. The pair of recently published reports on local government reform and alignment are only policy documents. While they appear to be Government policy, they are not yet legislation. Given the fact that local government reform is urgently required, it is strange and even farcical that the two distinct processes of reform and...

Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (20 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: With all due respect, the Minister's reputation for doing the right thing by certain sectors of society is questionable. He is doing away with fine, hard-working town councillors the length and breadth of this country who have served their communities well. Many are in his party. They will remember him well for what he has done to them.

Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (20 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: Local development companies work closely with county councils, but they operate in a different manner, as acknowledged by the reports. The retention of their autonomy from councils or any State body in facilitating communities to articulate their needs is imperative. There is a vague statement to the effect that the role and functions assigned to SECs should reduce the need for State...