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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 Feb 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 629. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1797 of 16 January 2018, the number of houses in question; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5793/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Data (31 Jan 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 202. To ask the Minister for Health if a person who is working in the HSE and has reached 65 years of age can continue working until 70 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4696/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: EU Directives (31 Jan 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 217. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the medical officer in his Department is advising chiropractors that they are to stop using x-ray machines or referring persons for x-rays from 6 February 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4781/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (31 Jan 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 250. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive a GLAS payment, an organics payment for 2017 and a balancing BPS payment for 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4698/18]

Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second and Subsequent Stages (25 Jan 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome and support the Bill and commend Senator Lawless and all those involved in proposing it. Tourists come to Ireland at different times of the year and the more we can get in the better. Some are baffled as to why the pubs are closed on Good Friday. I have heard the debates on the drink culture. Members of my family had drink problems so this is coming from someone who has gone...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Regulations 2018: Motion (25 Jan 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I support the regulations. For years, many elected representatives here have said that planning must be made simpler in certain situations in order that we have housing. Unfortunately, many people have moved out of towns and small villages in rural areas and this has left them like ghost towns because no one is living there any longer. We need to ensure that we make things simple. At its...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (25 Jan 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 134. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he plans to identify the persons that are at risk of suffering from side effects due to the chronic stimulation of their immune system through the gardasil HPV vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3751/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reports (25 Jan 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 198. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the person or body that researched and composed the report by her Department, chronic fatigue syndrome version 5; the costs involved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3752/18]

Companies (Statutory Audits) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jan 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I wish the Minister the best in her new position. She will be a loss to her previous Department. We might have crossed swords many a time but, in fairness to her, she was helpful and she did her best. We could have a row, but she always came back and talked to the person. I am aware that in her new role she is involved with the credit unions. I would encourage her, as a person who knows...

Shortage of Teachers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome this motion which has my full support. Some eight or ten years ago there was an abundance of teachers and some of them had no jobs. Now we are looking at a shortage, especially in certain areas. With whatever statistics are being collected, this situation should have been forecast. Equality and pay for young teachers is very important. It must be made attractive to bring people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. It contained charts from 2007 to 2013 showing that there has been a decline in the numbers of farmers. There were 300,000 farmers in Ireland when we joined the EU. We now have 120,000 farmers. It should not come as a shock to any body or group that farmer numbers have been in decline across Europe over the last 20 years. If I run a company...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Data (24 Jan 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 131. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons in the GLAS scheme in 2016 and 2017, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3629/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Roles, Responsibilities and Key Programmes of Bord Bia: Discussion (23 Jan 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: In the past few months farm organisations in different parts of the country have publicised the fact that even though meat might be stamped as such - especially chicken - it is actually not Irish. What does Bord Bía intend to do to sort out this problem? The product may have originated in another country, but it is stamped as having come from Ireland, which is causing confusion. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Roles, Responsibilities and Key Programmes of Bord Bia: Discussion (23 Jan 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What about the organic producers trying to sell in the commercial market? There does not appear to be a market, especially for cattle?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Exchequer Returns (23 Jan 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 181. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of unspent moneys received back into the Exchequer from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in each of the years 2015 to 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3212/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Usage (23 Jan 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 436. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if persons who have the low-emission slurry spreading, LESS, scheme as one of their actions in the GLAS programme and who have slatted sheds with full tanks may use the rain gun; if he will extend the slurry season to accommodate these persons whose land is currently too wet to facilitate the spreading of slurry; and if he will...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: As Deputy Daly said, no one in here condones people who drink and drive and our hearts go out to people who have lost family members as a result of drink-driving. As legislators, however, we have to ask if our legislation has worked for people who are three or four times over the limit, as is the case in 93% of those caught in cases where people have been killed. The answer, realistically,...

Section 39 Agency Staff Reimbursements: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I commend Deputy Calleary on this motion, which I fully support. When the country hit a wall in 2009 and 2010, these workers were told they were the same as the HSE and that they had to take the cuts. They took them, like most people in middle Ireland, while at the same time the Government decided to put €65 billion into banks to make sure they were okay. Ordinary people right...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Excise Duties Yield (17 Jan 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 55. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue generated from the sale of petrol and white diesel in each of the years 2014 to 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2195/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Excise Duties Yield (17 Jan 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 56. To ask the Minister for Finance the excise generated, either actual or estimated, from non-commercial vehicles for petrol and diesel for 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2209/18]