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Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation Provision (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 277. To ask the Minister for Health the reason patients in acute services are reportedly taken directly to private nursing homes until their fair deal application process is complete; the reason the transitional funding reportedly available to private nursing homes is not open to HSE nursing homes, such as the Sacred Heart Hospital, County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 278. To ask the Minister for Health the reason no progress has been made to date on the promised 50 bed extension to the Sacred Heart Hospital, County Roscommon; if a design team has been appointed; if construction will commence in 2020; if it will be finished by 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42940/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Savings (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 318. To ask the Minister for Health when additional funding will be put in place to address the issue of staff shortages within the home support coordinators across the HSE community west for the past four months (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43117/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Civil Service Code of Conduct (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 452. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number and grade of staff within his Department who have been sanctioned for breaching section 14 of the Civil Service code of conduct; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43362/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Civil Service Code of Conduct (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 453. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number and grade of staff that have been granted permission by his Department to act on behalf of an association (details supplied) or any group or organisation that has interests with his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43363/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Usage (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 454. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is a helpline which farmers can contact if they have slurry to spread; if so, the contact number for the helpline; the process which follows once a farmer contacts the helpline; if the farmers that contact the helpline will be inspected before they are granted permission to spread slurry; if the farmers will be more likely...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 455. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the frequency planned for the new beef taskforce to meet regularly once it meets initially; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43365/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 630. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason persons on five different tiers of the State pension (contributory) only received a percentage of the €5 increase with some only receiving a €2 increase with regard to the Budget 2019 announcement of a €5 increase across the board for social welfare recipients; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions Payments (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 631. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason recipients of the State pension (contributory) and non-contributory pension did not receive their first payment increase until the last Friday of March 2019 with regard to the Budget 2019 announcement of a €5 increase across the board for social welfare recipients payable from March 2019; and if she will...

Topical Issue Debate: Beef Industry (17 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I, too, thank the Minister of State for his reply. There are a number of issues on which clarification is needed. Where stands the price index promised a month ago? As pointed out by the Minister of State, threatening behaviour serves no purpose and none of us here would agree with it. In regard to the judgments hanging over people's heads, we need a goodwill gesture such as a phone call...

Topical Issue Debate: Beef Industry (17 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: We need clarification on when the beef task force will meet. We all acknowledge that it is not good when people do not get to the table. There is a beef crisis. We cannot just bury our heads in the sand. We know that injunctions have been taken against some people. People were told that if the protests were stood down, the injunctions would be lifted. Can the Minister of State use his...

Topical Issue Debate: Beef Industry (17 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: He can talk.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Waiting Lists (16 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 153. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be seen by Athenry ASD services for speech and language; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42367/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Control of Horses (16 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 187. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason Cork County Council refuses to remove stray horses from lands in Hollyhill, Cork city, in view of numerous requests from the landowner to do so; the reason persons living in the area are allowed to own horses if they do not have adequate land for grazing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42547/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services Infrastructure (16 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 276. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the delay in implementing the new three-year investment programme for water services in rural areas that was announced in February 2019 to be in place by the end of April 2019; when the changes will be rolled out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42546/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Departmental Outputs and Expenditure - Vote 42: Minister for Rural and Community Development (16 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the Minister and the Minister of State for coming. Since the local improvement scheme, LIS, was resumed in 2016, a lot of good work has been done in different places. The guy who has been waiting for ten years would probably need to submit a new application. Last year the Minister allocated two tranches of funds, one early and one later in the year. Is there a possibility that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Departmental Outputs and Expenditure - Vote 42: Minister for Rural and Community Development (16 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The Minister can comment on it quickly, if he wants do so. Under the CLÁR programme, there was a second tranche of funding last year. In County Galway, for example, there was funding made available for 12 safety measures last year. There was funding for six such measures this year. Is there any hope extra funding can be made available given this year? What the CLÁR programme...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Departmental Outputs and Expenditure - Vote 42: Minister for Rural and Community Development (16 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Will the committee note the Minister's suggestion that we bring in the Departments of Education and Skills and Transport, Tourism and Sport to give a hand with some of that funding? The committee should put it together here and support what the Minister has said. I worry somewhat about councils contributing a top-up because some of them have a woeful amount to spend at the moment. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Departmental Outputs and Expenditure - Vote 42: Minister for Rural and Community Development (16 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Would it be fair to say that other counties nearly have it spent? Galway County Council is going well at spending its allocation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Departmental Outputs and Expenditure - Vote 42: Minister for Rural and Community Development (16 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Did the Minister say there was a 13% administration cost from councils?