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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fire Stations (22 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider providing funding for a new fire service station in Kenmare, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52044/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Stocking Densities (22 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an appeal on stocking density in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52043/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Homeless Persons (22 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons seeking shelter in Arlington Lodge, Tralee, County Kerry, which is a homeless unit, that were unable to be taken care of for various reasons including the fact that a person has to be on some type of payment to avail of such a service from September 2011 to September 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51975/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Domestic Violence (22 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding funding in respect of an organisation (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51977/12]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard (22 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the fact that the digital communication equipment, which was in storage in Dublin for the past five years, is now being moved to the Marine Rescue Centre, Valentia Island, County Kerry, if he will state the reason for waiting from 2009 after purchasing the equipment until now to take it to Valentia to be installed; when this new...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: I concur with Deputy Mathews that this is a much more common problem than many people would believe. Reading the petitions one could conclude that it is a minor and unimportant issue when the opposite is the case. As Deputy Mathews noted, the issue of safety arises. I am aware of numerous incidents of people being badly hurt by falling trees and branches, including, the unfortunate case of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: This is a practical issue which is crying out for legislation. An aggrieved person, namely, someone residing adjacent to a property with an excessively high tree or hedge, does not have legal recourse if the owner of the adjoining property refuses to co-operate and behave like a good neighbour. If a law is not in place to provide assistance in such circumstances, we should do everything in...

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

Michael Healy-Rae: That is not-----

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

Michael Healy-Rae: Chairman-----

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

Michael Healy-Rae: Can the Commissioner tell me what part of my contribution was not accurate?

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

Michael Healy-Rae: I will be the same as everybody else.

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]