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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Installation Aid Scheme Applications (21 Mar 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1019. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons under 40 years of age with a green certificate that started farming between 2000 and 2008 and did not draw installation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12929/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Data (21 Mar 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1020. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons under 40 years of age with a green certificate that started farming between 2000 and 2008 that received payments under the BPS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12930/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Data (21 Mar 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1021. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the average payment to farmers under 40 years of age with a green certificate that started farming between 2000 and 2008 under the BPS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12931/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Data (21 Mar 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1058. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons applying for the basic payment scheme, single payment scheme, disadvantaged area scheme and areas of natural constraint scheme who had payments deducted as a result of any inspections conducted by his Department for each of the years from 2011 to 2016 and date in 2017, by county, in tabular form; the number...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Data (21 Mar 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1059. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons who applied for the basic payment scheme, single payment scheme, disadvantaged area scheme and areas of natural constraint scheme who sought an internal review of the findings of his Department, by county, for each of the years from 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form; the number who received...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Data (21 Mar 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1060. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons who applied for the basic payment scheme, single payment scheme, disadvantaged area scheme and areas of natural constraint scheme who sought to appeal the findings to the agricultural appeals office, by county, in each of the years from 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form; the number who...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Data (21 Mar 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1062. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of decisions of the appeals office that have been appealed by his Department for each of the years from 2011 to 2016 and date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13613/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Data (21 Mar 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1063. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of appeals brought before the agricultural appeals office that dealt with the basic payment scheme for each of the years from 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13614/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Data (21 Mar 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1061. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons who applied for the basic payment scheme, single payment scheme, disadvantaged area scheme and areas of natural constraint scheme who have made any kind of application to the High Court to review or appeal any decision of his Department for each of the years from 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme (21 Mar 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1101. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason he did not impose some percentage clawback on leasing of entitlements without land to help fund the national reserve, as was agreed with eight other countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14210/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme (21 Mar 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1102. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Government sought permission from the EU to not impose clawback on leasing of entitlements without land that it had agreed to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14211/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Mar 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The programme for Government stated the Government would look into a review of the number of Garda stations to be reopened throughout the country. The Government will soon be one year in power. Many of these reviews seem to be kicked down the road. On what date will information be available on the Garda stations that will be reopened in rural areas?

Commission of Investigation Announcement on Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (9 Mar 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Canney, for sharing time with me. I do not think there is a person in Ireland who has not been touched by the story that has emerged from Tuam in recent days. Those of us who come from the local area are aware that this has been said for a number of years. As the Minister of State said, Catherine Corless deserves to be commended on persisting with this...

Insurance Industry: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I would like to support the motion but, as the previous speaker has said, I have been here for about two and half years and have spoken on many motions following which nothing has happened. Debates such as this one create a feelgood factor, but it is ordinary people who are suffering from the consequences of high insurance right around the country. We debated the issue of water this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Has anyone from the Minister's Department or from the NTA or some independent person gone in to look at the salaries of senior management in Bus Éireann? I am led to believe that in one depot, there are 19 people on over €1,500 per week. There are four people as managers on €100,000 a year. Rather than looking at the lowly paid bus driver, has anyone gone in to examine...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: In the case of most of the PSO runs, it is private buses doing them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes. Right around rural parts; I am talking about rural Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Should a Government then make sure that a certain percentage is always kept with Bus Éireann buses to make sure that we have competition. I come from the private sector but I know that if there is a monopoly at one end or the other it is not good.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Should there be a certain percentage to make sure that competition will be retained? As I see it, we are heading towards an awful lot of private buses. There will be private buses and they will be there but we are losing a lot of Bus Éireann, or what we would call CIE buses down the country. Do we not need to make sure that a certain threshold of buses are kept in all parts of the...