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Climate Action Plan to Tackle Climate Breakdown: Statements (Resumed) (27 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: To receive cash-backs or apply for a grant, one must earn less than a certain threshold. The reality, which we see day in and day out, is that people in middle Ireland, earning €35,000 or €40,000 and paying a big mortgage, do not get money back. Some of those people are driving large distances to work. Some are driving from Roscommon to Dublin, some to Sligo and Galway. We...

Climate Action Plan to Tackle Climate Breakdown: Statements (Resumed) (27 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am grateful to have the opportunity to speak about this matter. Everyone agrees with the climate action plan when it comes to the better insulation of houses. The more insulation one can use, the better. However, the problem emerges when one looks at the price of insulation which ranges between €30,000 and €50,000 which many in this country cannot afford. They are the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (27 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 62. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has the authority to overrule decisions made by Bus Éireann on the routes buses take under the school transport scheme; if exceptions can be made for routes to be extended short distances to accommodate children who wish to attend a certain school that is not deemed to be their nearest post-primary centre for academic reasons; and if...

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the opportunity to speak to the motion, which I support. Care work is a vocation. Carers put in hours and hours to help their loved ones and close relatives, be they young children, middle aged or elderly. Sometimes, in desperate situations, carers are looking for respite help and it is not out there. Take, for example, a child with autism whose parent is his or her carer. That...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Sick Pay Scheme (26 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason payment is being withheld from a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27091/19]

Home Help: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: There is a serious crisis with home help hours and people being refused the service. On top of this, over the past few days we have heard that many people are being held in hospital with the fair deal scheme in chaos. If the truth were told, with the fiascoes of the likes of the national children’s hospital, there is penny-pinching going on in other services. HSE staff tell us that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank Ms Lennon for her presentation. I am looking at Eir's map of Castlecomer. Why has Eir gone a long distance out one road? I understand that, from where Eir was supplying the broadband, it could go 2 km either way. Why has one leg gone completely down one road? I noticed that. To be clear, Ms Lennon was saying that the way in which they are supplying the 300,000 people means the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: So that is €70 more. Secondly, Eir is bringing it through wire. I know that and, if a person brings it by duct to where the pole is, is Ms Lennon saying that, under the national broadband plan, there was a clause that it had to be brought to within so many metres of a house, or brought right to the house in every case? Third, for clarity, if Eir has €200 million in its back...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I will think of them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It was tough luck if one lived on some other road, in terms of density. Is that it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I do not want to interrupt Ms Lennon but she might clarify one aspect. We were told at the time that Eir would not be given the licence. It came out later on that the EU forced the Irish Government to let Eir do what it said it would do for the simple reason that it would not be allowed to include it in the intervention area.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: To be honest about it, we were told lies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What council was that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Do.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Was there a meeting?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (18 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a commitment with the amalgamation of three primary schools in Tuam, County Galway, has not been agreed by 1 September 2019, if DEIS band 1 status will be denied for the new school entity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25002/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (18 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if DEIS band 1 status can still be granted to the new single primary school in Tuam, County Galway, after 1 September 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25003/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (18 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if DEIS Band 1 status cannot be granted to the new single primary school in (details supplied) after 1 September 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25004/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (18 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if DEIS band 1 status currently held cannot be revoked or withdrawn in the event of a full amalgamation not being complete by 1 September 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25005/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (18 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he or his predecessors have made direct contact by phone to a person (details supplied) concerning the amalgamation of three Catholic primary schools; if so, the nature and content of the communication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25006/19]