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Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: We know the numbers of unemployed. We know what has happened in the west. Is the Taoiseach prepared-----

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is the Taoiseach prepared to tackle these head on for the benefit of people?

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Sit down you. Your day is over.

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Your day is over.

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is the Taoiseach telling me that there are fewer people working?

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am telling the Taoiseach the facts.

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I only want to give him the facts.

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What about the statistics of 181,000, down from 185,000?

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What about Roscommon and Mayo? They are in the west as well.

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The High Court judge is wrong then.

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Media reports this morning-----

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Media reports this morning-----

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Media reports this morning are saying that €300 million in additional tax revenue will be announced this evening, which is welcome. The Taoiseach and the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation have travelled around the country announcing the number of jobs that will be created over the coming years. They have gone to eight regions. One region, which includes the second biggest...

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: These apply in the west but they also apply in every other part of Ireland. The Central Statistics Office has released its figures, which I have no reason to doubt and which show that there are 4,000 fewer people working in the three counties to which I referred than there was in 2013. The Taoiseach talks about farmers. We should have someone on an aeroplane to meet the agriculture...

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The facts are that electricity suppliers have gotten the break on the rates. Small businesses which pay the rates in each county are struggling but there is nothing there for them. The Taoiseach himself has said that Galway hospital is in chaos.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. They spoke about different governments and bodies doing research in this area. If they are doing so much research would it not be a good idea to get the whole gear, the boring gear, the whole lot to make an independent study? I am not accusing anyone of anything but CDM Smith has sent us information about its contacts in gas exploration and oil...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: After seeing the water problems in America and other places where there was fracking, would Mr. Lynott drink the water there?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Data (2 Dec 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 49. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who are availing of the internship programme in 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43109/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Bord Bia (1 Dec 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the delegates for the presentation. Organic farmers deal with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Bord Bia and the certification bodies. Do the delegates believe Bord Bia could kill two birds with the one shot and eliminate the fact that so many people visit the farmer? As Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív mentioned, the lamb produced on the hills of counties Mayo,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Bord Bia (1 Dec 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Private subcontractors are paid to certify somebody and Bord Bia is also paid to certify. Can we not have joined-up thinking to ensure we do not pay two people in two cars if it could all be covered by one person?