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- Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Are the people with septic tanks, affected by regulations introduced in 2011, covered? We are well aware of the protests at the time about registering septic tanks. The people who registered are now being refused payment by councils because the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government is saying they are not entitled to the money as they are not in the 5% category. Will...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: If the Red Cross will not cover it, will the Department?
- Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: In the past few weeks we have witnessed the devastation caused by flooding in many areas throughout the country. In the past week I attended two meetings with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine on the drawing up of new maps, which process I have discovered to my horror is not being carried out in local offices, which is rather unusual. I welcome the €5 million...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Farm Assist Scheme Eligibility (15 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 130. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection why a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon has not been awarded farm assist; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45253/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (15 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 418. To ask the Minister for Health if efforts are being made to use facilities at hospitals in Northern Ireland in an effort to reduce the continuously rising waiting lists in many hospitals in the Republic and the number of persons from the Republic who have been transferred to hospitals in Northern Ireland and who have had operations carried out there since the beginning of 2015. [44964/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Staff (15 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 555. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in respect of the rates of pay for casual and part-time teachers in secondary schools who are employed on an ad hoc basis depending on the immediate requirements of a specific school, if it is commonplace for such teachers to be employed as substitutes in more than one school in any academic year, whether it be a school run by an education and...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Staff (15 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 556. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if education and training boards are entitled to change the terms of employment for casual part-time teachers and if part-time teachers have any employment rights in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45420/15]
- Topical Issue Debate: Flood Alleviation (10 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. It is the first sign of positivity I have seen since coming in here. At least the Minister of State recognises and understands the problem. We have a problem in Europe for the simple reason that the water framework directive is hitting the habitats directive head-on. We could have the best will in the world and the greatest people in the...
- Topical Issue Debate: Flood Alleviation (10 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: We have seen on television and on the ground the devastation being caused by the floods. People's hearts have been broken. The River Suck drainage committee was disbanded more than a year ago, meaning that 30 or 40 people employed in the committee have not been doing any work to prevent flooding. The scheme was sponsored by Galway and Roscommon county councils. The rivers in most...
- Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: They are after dredging all the rivers.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: They dredged there.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: They have dredged there.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: They have dredged there.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I am a farmer.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: They do not want to be drowned out of it. They will not be able to do tourism if they are drowned.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Look at what they have done.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Some of us in the west come from marginal land and have dealt with water and improving our lands our whole lives. That means trying to get water away to grow grass. As such, we may have some idea of how to shift water. I note that Holland is below sea level and is not drowned out of it at the moment. Reference has been made to nature. We grew up with nature in those areas and looked...
- Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: That was planning.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I never said one size fits all.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What about outdoor staff?