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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (30 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 502. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in view of the much vaunted and often heralded economic recovery, she will restore the capitation grant for national schools to the level pertaining prior to the introduction of the Government's austerity programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25915/15]

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The first requirement is space for people.

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: If the Minister goes down to look at the mental health services in the west, he will soon see what is going on.

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Patients are being turned away.

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Correct.

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is chaos. There is no health service in the west of Ireland.

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is chaos.

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Christmas.

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Correct

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Hear, hear.

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Correct.

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Tough luck.

Credit Unions: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (24 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank Deputy Halligan for giving me the speaking time. In rural Ireland, the credit unions are the new financial institution, even though they have been around for years. After the economic crash, the banks, which the people had bailed out, gave the two fingers to the smaller rural towns. There to pick up the slack were the credit unions. In every small village, in the credit union...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Registration Fees Refund Application (18 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 195. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Leitrim, the reason they have not yet received an adoption registration fee refund which should have been paid to them in February 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24310/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Data (18 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 222. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 446 and 449 of 31 March 2015, if he will direct the Health Service Executive to provide the information requested, which he committed to provide to this Deputy within 15 working days of 31 March 2015, and which this Deputy has still not received, in spite of repeated requests from this Deputy to the executive; if he...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (18 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a national school, having reached the threshold for an additional classroom teacher, must wait a full year before it receives its additional teacher; the reason such a school must then wait a further second year before it receives the 0.2 of a learning support post that accompanies the additional classroom teacher; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Payments (18 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 270. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide, in tabular form, a list of all the commercial operators who have been provided with monetary compensation and-or an alternative relocation bog out of public funds, as a result of the cessation of commercial operations on bogland sites designated under European and Irish legislation; if he will include, in each...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Payments (18 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 271. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will state for the record of Dáil Éireann that all persons, individual or corporate, who were cutting turf or extracting peat commercially on those bogs that are designated as sites of community importance, have received full compensation and-or relocation to another bog in respect of the losses imposed upon them...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Transport Council: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (17 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I note the main issue arising today appears to be the European rail network. In the context of TEN-T, funding is to be provided to develop the ports, rail and road network along the route from Foynes Port to Limerick, Limerick to Dublin and from Cork to Dublin and on to Newry . All of the road and rail networks in the west, from Derry to Galway, which up to 2011 were eligible for this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Transport Council: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (17 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: That is the line of core funding for railways, airports and roads. I can show the Minister that there is a difference between Ireland and England in this regard. I cannot guess the criteria used by the Minister's Department.