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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services Expenditure (25 Nov 2014)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 100. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the strategy he and his Department are developing for smaller towns, such as Castlerea, Boyle, Mohill and Tuam, that will make it viable to live in the west of Ireland; if his Department has a strategy to tackle unemployment black spots in this region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44403/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services Expenditure (25 Nov 2014)

Michael Fitzmaurice: In the smaller towns in the west, such as Castlerea, Boyle, Tuam and Mohill, there does not seem to be any strategy to create employment. We are back to these obstacles being put in the way. I firmly believe that the Departments need to adopt joined-up thinking. For example, I am aware of a hotel that could have been sold and 15 jobs created but for exorbitant rates. At this stage, we...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services Expenditure (25 Nov 2014)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Statistics, when one reads them out, sound great. There are staff in the higher Civil Service who write for the Minister and all these statistics are dazzling. However, the reality is each of us on the ground knows the problems involved in setting up business right across the country. We need to forget about those who love writing a beautiful essay; we need to work constructively together....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (25 Nov 2014)

Michael Fitzmaurice: While I welcome the initiatives to which the Minister referred, my understanding is the number of visits to the likes of Leitrim, Roscommon and some other countries nationwide has been limited compared with the locations to which the major industries have gone. I believe it is necessary to start dangling an odd carrot and while the financial services centre has been highly successful here in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (25 Nov 2014)

Michael Fitzmaurice: While one talks about creating employment in this country, I refer to a matter about which I spoke to the Minister in recent days. I spent the weekend on the telephone trying to get to the get to the bottom of it. An EU directive has been introduced and it has resulted in job losses at a number of the SMEs to which the Minister refers. Rules and regulations are being imposed but information...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (25 Nov 2014)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 98. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the Industrial Development Agency investment-jobs in the pipeline for the towns of Athlone, Ballinasloe, Carrick-on-Shannon and Roscommon; the dates by which any such project is expected to be delivered upon, as these towns are in urgent need of investment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44402/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (25 Nov 2014)

Michael Fitzmaurice: As a new Deputy, I thank the Minister and the Minister of State, Deputy English, for spending a bit of time talking to me about a few of my proposals. We need to work together to break down barriers across Ireland. Next Friday evening, a dark cloud will hang over Carrick-on-Shannon when 160 people lose their jobs. It will not come as a shot out of the blue. There have been warning signs...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Manufacturing Development Forum (25 Nov 2014)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 112. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his Department and IDA Ireland are actively seeking to create manufacturing jobs in the west of Ireland; the efforts made by his Department and IDA Ireland to create manufacturing jobs in the region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43999/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Regulations (25 Nov 2014)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 127. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide assistance and funding to small and medium enterprises that are struggling to meet the high costs associated with attaining certification to standard EN1090, formerly the CE Mark & EN127; if he is aware that in some instances, the projected cost of EN1090 certification has forced SMEs out of business; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Support Services Provision (25 Nov 2014)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 129. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the investment his Department has directed to each of the counties of Roscommon, Leitrim, Dublin, Galway, Mayo and Sligo in each of the past five years; the number of visits that have been paid to each county by IDA Ireland in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43997/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (25 Nov 2014)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 132. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason indigenous Irish companies and entrepreneurs are being less favourably treated when it comes to start-up and expansion assistance and, in particular, the reason indigenous small to medium projects appear to flounder at local level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43998/14]

Local Government (Rates and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Nov 2014)

Michael Fitzmaurice: We need to change that.

Local Government (Rates and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Nov 2014)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes.

Local Government (Rates and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Nov 2014)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Correct.

Local Government (Rates and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Nov 2014)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The Minister of State does not believe what he is reading.

Local Government (Rates and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Nov 2014)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I commend Deputy McGuinness on his Bill. I have not been in the Dáil for long, but whoever wrote the Minister of State's speech never created a job. Nor could anyone read and believe what the speech contained. I am talking about people who take chances and entrepreneurs who try to create employment, many of whom have had to go into banks on a Friday evening because they were struggling...

Local Government (Rates and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Nov 2014)

Michael Fitzmaurice: People do not get these services.

Domestic Violence (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Nov 2014)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I commend Deputy Ellis on introducing this Bill. As we have heard today, domestic violence is a country wide problem. One often hears the old saying, "when poverty comes in the door, love goes out the window." Over the last seven or eight years, people have been subjected to what I would call silent violence. People were made unemployed, left with massive mortgages and mistreated by the...

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2014)

Michael Fitzmaurice: In Roscommon-South Leitrim, quality of water is paramount, but for the past ten years this has been neglected by successive Governments. I hope that in the next 12 to 15 months this will be resolved. Everyone knows that Irish Water has been a fiasco from the start. People joined Irish Water having left jobs with large pensions, and they have been granted bonuses and mileage expenses at...

Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It will wipe out everybody.