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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (24 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 711. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the services of an ophthalmic physician are not being provided locally in County Longford, despite the fact that an ophthalmic physician was appointed to the post of community ophthalmic physician (details supplied); the reason children from County Longford are still being sent to Athlone, County Westmeath, to attend appointments with an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (24 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 773. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount that was spent on the rebranding of, and new logo for, the Teaching Council, which was funded by the annual levies of teachers nationwide; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11357/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (24 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 774. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the Teaching Council of Ireland has over €16 million of teachers' levies (details supplied) in a bank account, while paying its chief executive officer a salary of over €108,000; her views that this surplus should be to reduce the annual levy, or be invested in the schools; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Data (24 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1011. 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 the end of December 2014 in Ardgraigue Bog (details supplied) in County Galway, site code 002356. [12060/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Data (24 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1012. 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 the end of December 2014, in Ardgraigue Bog (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12061/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Data (24 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1013. 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 multiple plot, categorised by year from January 2011 to the end of December 2014, in Ardgraigue Bog, County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12064/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Data (24 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1014. 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 the end of December 2014, in Ardgraigue Bog (details supplied) in County...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Data (24 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1015. 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 the Department, categorised by year for the years 2011 to 2014, in Ardgraigue Bog (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12066/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Data (24 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1018. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of plot owners who were paid money for turf plots in Ardgraigue 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. [12069/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Relocation Options (24 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1016. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of applicants who have applied for relocation and the number of applicants who have been successfully relocated from Ardgraigue Bog (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12067/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Relocation Options (24 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1017. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the names of bogs to which her Department has successfully relocated applicants from Ardgraigue Bog (details supplied) in County Galway, the number of plots available for relocating applicants in each of these relocation bogs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12068/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Coillte Teoranta Lands (24 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1019. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the area of bog owned by the State in Ardgraigue Bog (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12070/15]

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Votáil Uachtaráin) 2014: An Dara Céim [Private Members] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Voting) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I commend Sinn Féin on this Bill. I acknowledge that the Government has appointed a Minister of State with responsibility for the diaspora and Deputy Deenihan has forged links with groups in different countries. We should give people in these countries the choice of casting a vote because they are there through no fault of their own. Many of them keep up an interest in, and are as...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (11 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Ireland is like a pet lamb following a bottle. Everything that Europe tells us to do, we go along and do it.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (11 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The large countries do what they want to do. We as a nation have given up on the pride we were always brought up with. Why do small nations not work together and decide to stand up and be counted? In a referendum a few years ago we were told European armies would not be put together, that it could not happen. Now we learn what is being said from media reports. I have not been here...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (11 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: We are losing jobs due to bad EU legislation being brought in. Do we want to say we are the great people of Europe but we give out social welfare because we have no jobs for people? We have to decide and say what is good and what is bad. That is the way forward, working together with people. Each Deputy who is going away for St. Patrick’s Day should be proud of our country and not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Can Mr. Nolan clarify what is happening with the Westport-Athlone route? My second question is for Ms Graham. From 2010 to 2014, what sort of cuts have been made to the NTA's budget? What are the figures? Mr. Nolan said that Bus Éireann made a profit on the Expressway, and I would like to know what profit was made. Anybody will know that in business you win some and lose some and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What is the amount of money?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is nearly a €70 million cut.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is there not a risk all around Ireland in that case that we will leave lucrative places serviced and non-lucrative places abandoned? Is that not what we are doing?