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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Immigration Policy (12 Dec 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this Topical Issue matter. Public representatives across the country have been inundated with emails and phone calls from people who are concerned about the compact. There was a ferocious debate between two candidates for the leadership of Angela Merkel's party in Germany. There is concern in other countries. Some of the stuff out there may not be...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (11 Dec 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the governance manual 2015-2019 and the Education Act 1998 is the only legislation in place governing the removal of persons by a patron from a primary school board of management; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51709/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Applications (11 Dec 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 518. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will issue on an invalidity review for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51666/18]
- Climate Change: Statements (6 Dec 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I will split my time with Deputy Catherine Martin.
- Climate Change: Statements (6 Dec 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: We need to put things into context. In the past seven or eight years, 400,000 more people are working in Ireland. If we put wings on them, we will have a bigger carbon footprint. We have to make sure whatever measures are introduced do not hit people the wrong way, especially those from the poorer sections of our community. Many things can be done to help income. Unfortunately the dairy...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: In the procurement process, a process I am familiar with in other areas, am I correct in saying that the tenderer fills in the document and puts in their tender bid, showing their capacity to do something, staff numbers, work done and pricing? When Eir, enet and the ESB were in it, would those figures have been in before any of these contacts were made?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Had Eir or SIRO not even got to the point of the monetary cost when they pulled out of the process?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Would I be correct in saying, and I am coming from the private sector in the line of a bill of quantum, that those that give out a contract generally have a figure for the cost of something six months or a year before they put it out to tender?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: If a Minister needed to meet someone at the weekend, early in the morning or late at night, did Mr. Smyth check to see if departmental staff would be available at all times, if required?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Does Mr. Smyth know if they were available?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: On a Saturday, a Sunday or any day.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The metropolitan area networks, MANs, contract had been awarded to Enet six or seven months before. I believe the Department awarded it to 2030 without a procurement process. Did Mr. Smyth look into that matter or did he believe it might have been better to engage in a procurement process?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Was there not an option to engage in a procurement process?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I am not asking Mr. Smyth to nail it down in pounds, shillings and pence, but does he believe broadband can be delivered as part of the current process? Also, does he believe we will achieve value for money or that it will cost a good deal more?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank Mr. Smyth.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Sale of Permanent TSB Mortgage Loans: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Three or four months ago, or maybe longer, Permanent TSB decided to take this approach. When it decided it would take 66%, did it at any stage consider writing to customers to ask whether they had families, friends or anybody else who would be interested? For example, a mortgage worth €300,000 would become €200,000. Could the mortgages not have been offered to the ordinary...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Sale of Permanent TSB Mortgage Loans: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: For the customers of the bank who had deals with it, was there any stage, given that it was prepared to take 60% of the overall debt, when the bank contemplated writing to those people to ask them whether anybody belonging to them was in a position to get his or hands on that type of money in the full and final settlement?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Sale of Permanent TSB Mortgage Loans: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is it a better outcome if people lose their house down the road than if a family or somebody else can help them when they are going for a loan that costs 33% more?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Sale of Permanent TSB Mortgage Loans: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: From what I heard earlier, Mr. Masding said the Minister for Finance and the Department of Finance gave the bank the go-ahead to take this approach.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Sale of Permanent TSB Mortgage Loans: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Was there any objection from the Minister for Finance?