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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: General Scheme of Road Traffic Bill 2015: Discussion (16 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What is meant by "random?" Will I be required to carry out the test once a day, once a month or once a year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: General Scheme of Road Traffic Bill 2015: Discussion (16 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Mr. Towey spoke about Iarnród Éireann, which has thousands of employees. He should consider the person who has one or two lorries going to the Continent, Cork or Belfast. What the Department thinks it can achieve is ludicrous. We designed the CPC course to put responsibility on drivers to ensure checks are done every morning when they go out and to put responsibility on drivers...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: General Scheme of Road Traffic Bill 2015: Discussion (16 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The Bill would impose an extra cost on employers. Does Mr. Towey mean a doctor would take the sample?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: General Scheme of Road Traffic Bill 2015: Discussion (16 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Then it is not good enough to buy the kit used in Australian mines to see if any worker had a drink the night before. It will cost a good bit to bring a doctor to premises to take samples from drivers. Is that what the Department is thinking of?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: General Scheme of Road Traffic Bill 2015: Discussion (16 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Jesus Christ, Ireland has gone wrong.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: General Scheme of Road Traffic Bill 2015: Discussion (16 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I did not say we needed a European licence, I asked why we have a European licence when nobody recognises anything we do in any other country.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: General Scheme of Road Traffic Bill 2015: Discussion (16 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: This committee is looking at more new legislation. In line with the CPCs, every lorry or plant driver is obliged to tick their boxes and be a competent driver every morning they go out. Will the witness tell the committee how is it that every private driver has to do this and yet there are public bodies that have refused to do it and ignore it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: General Scheme of Road Traffic Bill 2015: Discussion (16 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The CPC is a competence certificate. There is a legislative process in place that one has to do five courses in order to become a competent driver. It is part of the NTA and is European-wide, even though France has refused to do it. One will not be allowed to drive plant on a road here without doing the five modules. How come every private plant or lorry driver in Ireland is obliged to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: General Scheme of Road Traffic Bill 2015: Discussion (16 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is just to get the message out there. I have spoken to people in the UK. There were difficulties in the UK through he years but they have come along a lot. People on blood pressure tablets or with heart conditions need to be reassured with regard to drug testing. The first message which should go out is that guidelines exist whereby such people will be encompassed. This will give them...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: General Scheme of Road Traffic Bill 2015: Discussion (16 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I will breathalyse Professor Cusack before he leaves.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (15 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 284. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 101 of 17 December 2014 and subsequent correspondence (details supplied), if he will ask the European Commission to re-assess its advice in respect of Article 7 of European Union Regulation No. 576/2013; if he will seek to have Ireland and the United Kingdom placed on the list of member states...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Spent Convictions Legislation (15 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 346. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when legislation allowing for convictions to be deemed spent will be debated in Dáil Éireann; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14127/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (15 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 715. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide for the obligatory ongoing maintenance of the Clárleabhar in primary schools, following the introduction of the primary online database in 2016, as an invaluable source of local history, and out of respect for long established tradition; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14515/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: State Land Ownership (15 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 907. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the area of bog owned by the State in Clonmoylan Bog (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14235/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme (15 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 908. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of plot owners who were paid money for turf plots in Clonmoylan Bog (details supplied) in County Galway, under schemes other than the current Cessation of Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme; the amounts paid to each recipient in such instances categorised by year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14236/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme (15 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 911. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of compensation payments made to applicants which her Department has sought, or is now seeking, to have repaid to Departmental funds, categorised by year, from January 2011 to December 2014, in Clonmoylan Bog (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14239/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme (15 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 912. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of applicants who did not meet the criteria of the scheme, that is were not cutting turf on their plots in any of the five reference years or where their plots are cut out and have no raised bog remaining, categorised by year, from January 2011 to December 2014, in Clonmoylan Bog (details supplied) in County Galway; and...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme (15 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 913. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of turf plots on which multiple compensation payments were made, and the specific amounts paid for each such multiple plot, categorised by year, from January 2011 to December 2014, in Clonmoylan Bog (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14241/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme (15 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 914. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of applicants who received monetary compensation and turf deliveries, categorised by year, from January 2011 to December 2014, in Clonmoylan Bog in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14242/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme (15 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 915. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of applicants who applied for compensation under the Cessation of Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme, categorised by year, from January 2011 to December 2014, in Clonmoylan Bog in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14243/15]