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Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (16 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 587. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the recent withdrawal, for cost saving reasons, of the essential emergency cardiac drugs Ephedrine and Epinephrine from ambulances, save those minority of ambulances that are crewed by an advanced paramedic; his further views on the inevitability that this latest cost saving measure will result in unnecessary loss of life; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Staff (16 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 588. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the recent withdrawal of stand-by ambulance crews under the new rostering regime; his further views on the potential impact this will have in County Roscommon, where the enhanced ambulance service promised following the closure of the newly constructed accident and emergency unit at Roscommon Hospital has not yet been delivered; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (16 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 590. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the case of a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23307/15]

Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute on this matter. I welcome an investigation. I have not been in the Dáil for long, but I have seen something. As Deputy Ross stated, the banking inquiry is taking place down the corridor. The more one learns about this place and that no one will be crucified or made to pay a price for doing wrong, the more one grows frustrated. I have...

Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I have with me a letter that I received this morning. According to it, the Minister and the Taoiseach have been sent copies. A couple with a house in Lucan is being kicked around by the same bank that supposedly gave others favourable treatment. The couple's loan has been sold. The list of directors at the various companies that buy secondary mortgages off the likes of IBRC makes for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Joint Sitting with the Joint Comittee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Pro-Social Drivers Programme: Pro-Social Ireland (10 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Do the witnesses talk to councils about the roads programme and alleviating problems in high-risk areas? Youngsters drive fast, but one can put a speed restrictor into a car as easily as into a lorry and it would restrict them whether they liked it or not. I have been an advocate of this but I do not know if the delegates have done anything about it. Is there an incentive for youngsters...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Better Energy Homes Scheme (10 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 197. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in view of the enormous potential for both monetary and energy savings, his views on the fact that the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland's better energy home owner grant scheme and better energy warmer homes scheme do not cover the replacement of external windows and doors; if he will use his influence with the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 247. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the fact that it is Government policy that An Post remain a strong and viable company, which will be in a position to provide a high-quality postal service and maintain a nationwide customer focused network of post offices in the community, if her Department's policy and practice of promoting financial institutions outside the post...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 248. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the fact that seven out of the eight of her Department's payment application forms delivered to An Post postmasters recently, as part of their stationary deliveries, recommend that prospective payment recipients should have their payments paid directly into accounts in financial institutions instead of to the local post office, her...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 249. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the fact that part three, on page six of her Department's pension application form (details supplied), positively recommends that prospective pension recipients should have their pensions paid into current, deposit or savings accounts in financial institutions, to the exclusion of the local post office; her views on her Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Administration (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 421. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 365 of 21 April 2015, if the phrase on-the-spot check in respect of eligibility in the regulations has a specific procedure prescribed under the regulations; the reason his Department deviates from this regulation when carrying out a land parcel identification system review which is not...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Administration (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 423. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 360 of 21 April 2015, if he is satisfied that it is appropriate to transfer statutory decision making powers in the manner stated; the reason it was not necessary to set up the land parcel identification system appeals committee by statutory instrument and make statutory provision for procedure...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Administration (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 424. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 360 of 21 April 2015, if he will confirm that an applicant who is subject to penalties after an eligibility inspection is afforded a statutory appeal procedure, but an applicant who is subject to reductions following an land parcel identification system review is not entitled to a statutory...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Administration (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 425. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No.360 of 21 April 2015, if the land parcel identification system ortho-imagery assessment that triggers a verification visit is made available to applicants prior to considering an appeal; if not, if they will be made available in future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21306/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Administration (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 429. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 364 of 21 April 2015, the reason his Department requires a verification visit, in circumstances where a land eligibility inspection process is already provided for under the direct payment scheme's regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21346/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Administration (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 438. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 360 of 21 April 2015, if he will confirm that his Department’s custom and practice is to notify landowners of private lands in advance of land parcel identification system verification visits, but his Department’s custom and practice is not to notify commonage land owners in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Administration (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 422. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to the recent publication of the guidelines on land eligibility, if he will confirm that these guidelines also apply to Article 34(2)(b)(i) of 73/2009 which was repealed and replaced by Article 34(2)(b)(i) 1307/2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21302/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Administration (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 427. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 365 of 21 April 2015, if he will clarify the relevance of Article 24(3) of Regulation (EU) No. 809/2014 to the Parliamentary Question asked; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21318/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Inspections (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 428. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he agrees with European Union Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr Phil Hogan, that no-notice inspections should end (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21345/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Disease Controls (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 500. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 284 of 15 April 2015, if he will provide a copy of the European Union Commission's confirmation and/or advice that the derogation provided for in Article 7 of EU Regulation No. 576/2013 is applicable to non-commercial movement of pets only, and must be applied on an all-or-none basis, and that...