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Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: In the west, we have care homes such as the community care home in Carrick-on-Shannon, Áras Mhuire in Tuam and, above all, the Sacred Heart Hospital in Roscommon which passed an inspection with flying colours in terms of the care provided by staff. Residents are happy in the home. People in Roscommon suffered a blow when the accident and emergency unit of the local hospital was closed....

Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I will ask a straight question. Will funding be provided to the Sacred Heart Hospital in Roscommon to ensure the 90 year old person to whom I spoke no longer lives in fear? The Government should not play politics by waiting for one, two or three weeks to decide when is the right time to make an announcement. Will funding be provided because the people in question do not deserve what they...

Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Everyone agrees that elderly people should receive the best possible care. Two weeks ago, senior HSE officials told me the Cabinet had to meet and the HSE would shortly know the outcome of that meeting. What does "shortly" mean to a 90 year old person who looks one in the eye and asks whether a nursing home will close forcing him or her to move out? I will not tell a lie to anybody and I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Chairperson Designate (23 Sep 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The first things I noted were the functions of IFI, namely, to promote, support, facilitate and advise the Minister on the conservation, protection, management, marketing, development and improvement of inland fisheries. Can Mr. Gorman give me a straight answer? In Lanesborough there is Asian clam. In Shannonbridge and Carrick-on-Shannon there is the same problem. There are some in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Chairperson Designate (23 Sep 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Who is responsible? I am asking a straight question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Chairperson Designate (23 Sep 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Will Mr. Gorman agree that, under EU law, the NPWS is responsible for dealing with invasive species?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Chairperson Designate (23 Sep 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Would it not be a good idea that Inland Fisheries Ireland, Waterways Ireland and the NPWS go to the relevant Department and seek funding in such cases? There is €13 million all the way up from the river Shannon in Limerick at stake and nothing is being done apart from everyone passing the buck. Who will stand up sooner or later and say, “It is our problem”?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Chairperson Designate (23 Sep 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Does Mr. Gorman think the drop in the number of people coming here angling is a bad chart? Have the fisheries bodies failed?

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: When I read the Fennelly report I wonder whether it is like two lives. When I go to one page I read one thing but there is nearly a contradiction on the next page. I must question one thing. Were the participants or the players too big to give the real truth regarding what went on? I believe, and I do not think anyone in the country would disagree, that given what went on during the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Applications (22 Sep 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 482. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the figures of those who applied for the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30511/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (22 Sep 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 556. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are situations where land eligibility may be inspected without the requirement of a control report being provided to the applicant or their agent; if he will provide a list of such scenarios; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32214/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (22 Sep 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 557. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine pursuant to Article 6 of the EU Regulation 1122/2009, if he will provide the defined minimum requirements for good agricultural and environmental condition, on the basis of the framework set out in Annex III of 1122/2009; his views that each of the characteristics set out in Article 6 have been properly taken into account, as...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Inspections (22 Sep 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 558. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 142 of 26 March 2015 and 366 of 21 April 2015, his views that an applicant has the right to refuse the inspectors entry; the way this right may be refused if an applicant to the schemes is not informed of the inspectors' presence on the applicant's lands; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Inspections (22 Sep 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 559. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his staff may enter lands where one or more land owners, who are not applicants of any scheme, and therefore have not signed up to the terms, have not provided him with permission to enter their lands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32217/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (22 Sep 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expected commencement date for construction of a school (details supplied) in County Galway; if the tender process is complete; if all the legal issues with the site are sorted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31653/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Wildlife Protection (22 Sep 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1682. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in view of the fact that the activities of commercial shoot operators targeting woodcock in the main, particularly in the western counties, are frequently unregulated and the need to regulate the shooting of wild animals and birds in the interest of conservation and sustainability, if she will provide a commencement date for...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Wildlife Regulations (22 Sep 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1708. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will clarify Regulation 25 of the European Communities (Birds and Habitats) Regulations 2011; if she is satisfied that landowners are aware of this obligation; if landowners have been properly notified and made aware of all the activities requiring consent and, in particular, other restrictions applying to the site; in the...

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: If we say it cannot be done, then we are giving up as a country. I am appealing to the Tánaiste. Altogether, I think there would be support right around the House. We could work together and make sure this will not go on. There are senior civil servants who have retired on massive pensions as well. This cannot go on, when we see people struggling on €20,000, €30,000...

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: We are €208 billion in debt.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Why not leave it reduced?