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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (4 May 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 253. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of time after a person has ingested cocaine before the technology being used for roadside drug testing will return a negative result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21286/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (4 May 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 254. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of time after a person has ingested opiates before the technology being used for roadside drug testing will return a negative result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21287/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (4 May 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of time after a person has ingested benzodiazepines before the technology being used for roadside drug testing will return a negative result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21288/17]

Inland Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 May 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: A huge number of anglers have come to Ireland through the years. The sport has been worth something in the region of €86 million to this country, but unfortunately we have lost many of those anglers. We will hear many people blame the farmers for it, but the reality is that raw sewage is going into many rivers throughout the country and that is depleting fish stocks. There are major...

Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I support the motion. It is recognised across all parties and none in this House that there is a need for a good maternity hospital. We all agree that we need top services in Dublin, but they are needed in the different regions also. The hospitals in Ballinasloe, Galway and Castlebar also need proper funding to make sure mothers in these areas will have safe delivery. I am aware that this...

Mental Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 May 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the debate and commend Deputy Browne. As Deputy Connolly said earlier, we have many debates in the Dáil but, sadly, nothing has changed in many areas. The mental health report on Roscommon and Galway, which was promised in March, has gone on and on for months and months but has not been published. I spoke to the Minister of State earlier as to why it has not been published...

Topical Issue Debate: Western Development Commission (2 May 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I have no doubt about the likes of the Minister of State's commitment. The bottom line, and Mr. Paddy McGuinness would say the same thing, is that there are plans, reviews, task forces and everything one could dream of in the programme for Government, but actions speak louder than words. It is nearly a year since this Government was formed. The reality is that the TEN-T funding is the one...

Topical Issue Debate: Western Development Commission (2 May 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Build the roads and the businesses will come. That is the Ring rant over.

Topical Issue Debate: Western Development Commission (2 May 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I will be sharing my time with Deputy Anne Rabbitte. I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the opportunity to raise this issue. As I am sure the Minister of State is aware, in the past week we heard of the shock announcement that the chairman of the Western Development Commission is resigning.

Topical Issue Debate: Western Development Commission (2 May 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: He is not seeking reappointment.

Topical Issue Debate: Western Development Commission (2 May 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Fair enough.

Topical Issue Debate: Western Development Commission (2 May 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: He will not seek reappointment because he is frustrated with what is going on. From coverage on local radio stations, the Minister of State will have heard of Mr. Paddy McGuinness's frustration. Based on what he has seen in recent years, he believes there is no commitment from Government. If this were coming from somebody who had been giving out about things down through the years, it...

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Home Beds Data (2 May 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The facts are that in County Galway and other counties, people who wanted to go to a nursing home close to their family or that their family would be able to visit were not given the option for convalescent beds. None of us are saying that people should be paying two prices in one and one price on the other. If the Department was using a bit of common sense it would say that people could go...

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Home Beds Data (2 May 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The Minister of State said that the HSE has its own autonomy in doing this. Can the Minister of State clarify whether we have passed the stage when a Minister can say, "This is what we need to do and this is the way we are going to do it"? Many Ministers would not do some of the things we have seen done so is there a cohort in the HSE who go off on tangents of their own, only for it to come...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Expenditure (2 May 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 656. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount allocated to flood relief measures in budgets 2015 and 2016; the amount which was spent in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19379/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Contracts (2 May 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1106. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE commissioner of the Roscommon mental health service review did not use a standard HSE procurement process, but instead used a systems analysis investigation method to appoint members of the Roscommon review team (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20614/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Contracts (2 May 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1107. To ask the Minister for Health if any members of the Roscommon mental health service review team were known to or linked to any senior members of HSE management; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20615/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Contracts (2 May 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1108. To ask the Minister for Health the persons or body that selected persons and the way in which they were selected in view of the fact that the procurement method used was for systems analysis investigations, which required no advertising or interviews and was generally lacking in transparency, in relation to the Roscommon mental health review team; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Contracts (2 May 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1109. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Roscommon mental health service review team is using a legal firm in County Mayo to conduct its business in relation to the review, when it is based in Northern Ireland and this same firm is used by the HSE to conduct other business; if the firm can be described as truly independent; his views on whether this is not a conflict of interest;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Contracts (2 May 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1110. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 566 of 15 November 2016, the reason the national director of mental health stated that the incident management policy 2014 was used for the selection of external experts for the Roscommon review team; and if the attention of the director was not drawn to the fact that this policy, which only examines individual serious...