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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (21 Feb 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 511. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will be paid an AEOS payment which is due to them. [8069/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Departmental Funding (21 Feb 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 592. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the public funding supplied to trade unions and representative bodies in 2015 and 2016 from his Department in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9095/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Funding (21 Feb 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 640. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the public funding supplied to trade unions and representative bodies in 2015 and 2016 from her Department, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9099/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (21 Feb 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 666. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the public funding supplied to trade unions and representative bodies in 2015 and 2016 from his Department in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9096/17]

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is a sad reflection on all politicians that Katie Hannon and RTE had to bring this matter to light when so many people knew and did nothing about it for years. Some good people kept silent but if we stay silent, evil will remain. What the whistleblowers endured should never be endured by any individual or his or her family and children. Sergeant McCabe and the other whistleblowers in...

Brexit and Special Designation for the North: Motion [Private Members] (15 Feb 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome this motion. It is agreed throughout the whole island that Northern Ireland deserves special status. I commend Sinn Féin on bringing this motion forward. When I was a young lad growing up, we saw troubles in the North on television, and people were actually afraid to cross the Border at one stage. In fairness, the work of Sinn Féin, the Unionists and other parties...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Animal Welfare (15 Feb 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 162. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if the Revised Draft of Dog Breeding Establishment Guidelines, November 2016, which have been published recently apply to dog boarding kennels or just to dog breeding operations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7742/17]

North-South Interconnector: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I support the motion before the House. No one wants pylons near their houses. People build houses in rural areas to have a nice view, not to have some eyesore stuck at their back door. They tried it in the west and there was fierce resistance, yet they now seem to be persisting with this North-South interconnector. The country needs to decide where it is going in this regard. As I have...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Commercial Rates Calculations (14 Feb 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 218. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the details of the terms of the proposed rural rates alleviation scheme recently announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6708/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Feb 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It was agreed in the programme for Government that Ireland's future forestry policy would be the subject of a mid-term review this year. Such a review is necessary because outside interests like vulture funds are putting pressure on family farms by buying land in local areas at prices that local people cannot afford. It was announced last week that a vulture fund from Helsinki is buying up...

Hospital Waiting Lists: Statements (9 Feb 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I ask the Minister to gather enough money together - be it €100 million or €150 million, as suggested by Fianna Fáil - for the NTPF so that we can start hitting the problem straight away. I ask him to do that for the Dáil. I also ask him to give an undertaking that from now we will have the overall figure. If the Minister gives those two commitments today, that will...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Young Farmers Scheme (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 28. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the plan to deal with the forgotten farmers as outlined in the programme for Government will be implemented and up and running before the end of 2017. [4879/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 30. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the appropriate instruction to his Department to pay farmers manually for the period which they are owed and in turn deal with the problems which the information technology department is having before the next GLAS payment in December 2017 (details supplied). [4878/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit Eligibility (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 176. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to extend entitlement to jobseeker's benefit to persons who have paid S-class contributions in the relevant year for assessment of entitlement; when these changes will be in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5119/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit Eligibility (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 177. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person making a claim for jobseekers benefit in 2017 who is currently paying a class-A contribution, but who has 52 paid class-S contributions only in 2015, the relevant year for assessment, has an entitlement to jobseeker's benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5120/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Eligibility (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 178. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to extend entitlement to invalidity pension to persons who have paid S-class contributions in the relevant year for assessment of entitlement; when these changes will be in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5121/17]

Roads Funding: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I support the motion. We have seen a deterioration in roads right around the country in recent years. In the early 2000s and prior to that, roads were resurfaced once in every ten years. Now that less money is around for that purpose, the likelihood of a road being resurfaced has become once in every 20 years. That is the reason we have seen such a deterioration in the condition of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Funding (1 Feb 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the €800,000 funding required to upgrade the Galway and Roscommon Educational and Training Board sub-office in Roscommon town in view of the fact that the building has not received any capital investment since 1985; when he expects the funding to be made available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4913/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Grades Review (1 Feb 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 238. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current terms and conditions of the offer available to the CPSU relating to the merger of the staff officer grade with the executive officer grade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4770/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Grades Review (1 Feb 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 239. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the merger of the staff officer grade and executive officer grade will occur (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4771/17]