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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Administration (30 Jan 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 267. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if all community employment schemes are run privately; if not, if they are run by the State; the person or body deemed to be the employer of the supervisors and assistant supervisors on individual community employment schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4508/19]

No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Jan 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Does the Minister think Abhaile is any good?

No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Jan 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Does the Deputy mean vulture funds?

No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Jan 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I offer my condolences to Deputy Pearse Doherty, the Leas-Cheann Comhairle and the other Deputies from Donegal on the tragic loss of four young people over the weekend. I will support this Bill. It is a good Bill. I do not understand why we would not want to do something about an element of the code of practice that would basically give it a bit of power. I listened to the Minister of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (29 Jan 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedure for the removal of clergy who have not resigned or become ineligible to serve by patrons from school boards of management following diocesan changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4096/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (29 Jan 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 307. To ask the Minister for Health when a hospital appointment will be scheduled for a person (details supplied). [3741/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Remuneration (29 Jan 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 385. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) who entered a new contract with the HSE and commenced work on 9 November 2018 will receive payment for working duties; his views on whether the process in place is adequate with new employees having to wait three months to receive payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4145/19]

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I will not delay people long. There are many positives in the Bill. We know the situation in Dublin and in the larger cities, but also in all counties and in smaller towns. I refer to the problems of housing and homelessness in this country. We have seen some of the major landlords coming from foreign lands and dictating the pace of what they do and getting away with many different...

Local Government Bill 2018: From the Seanad (23 Jan 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The Minister of State's wife would be helpful in Leitrim.

Local Government Bill 2018: From the Seanad (23 Jan 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the opportunity to speak to the Bill. Regardless of which side of the debate we are on, we should acknowledge that the Minister of State with responsibility for local government, Deputy Phelan, has met us several times to discuss the issue. This compares favourably with has been done by any other Minister and needs to be respected. The report on Galway was clear in stating...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (23 Jan 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3271/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Quality Assurance Scheme (23 Jan 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 182. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of tonnes of beef produced on quality assured farms in each of the years 2016 to 2018; the number of tonnes deemed ineligible for the quality assurance payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3256/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering Standards (23 Jan 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 183. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the regulatory with which inspections were carried out by departmental personnel on weighing equipment in livestock processing plants in each of the years 2016 to 2018; the number found to be out of calibration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3257/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering Standards (23 Jan 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 184. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the regulatory with which weighing equipment in livestock processing plants is required to be independently calibrated to ensure the accuracy of these machines is kept to a high standard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3258/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering Standards (23 Jan 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 185. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the regulatory with which a grading machine in a beef processing factory is required to be independently calibrated to ensure its accuracy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3259/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering Data (23 Jan 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 186. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a food business operator in a slaughter plant can access information on an animal that is not being presented for slaughter by a herd keeper; the information the operator can see relating to other animals in the herd on the animal identification and movement system when accessing information on an animal being presented for...

National Broadband Plan: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jan 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It was a private company that did that, not the Government.

National Broadband Plan: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jan 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I support the motion. I have been here for four years. This is about the 20th time we have discussed rural broadband during Private Members' business yet the circus goes on. This has supposedly been coming to rural areas since 2012. I am from a rural area. I worry about competence in respect of what is happening. I am not saying it directly to the Minister because he is not long in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Commission (22 Jan 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a reply will issue from the State Examinations Commission further to his reply to parliamentary questions Nos. 209 to 2014, inclusive, of 16 October 2018, in view of Standing Order 42A(1)(a) of Dáil Éireann. [2882/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (22 Jan 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 429. To ask the Minister for Health if services at a location (details supplied) in County Galway will continue to operate from these premises; if patients from the town and surrounding areas will be seen in the town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2830/19]