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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.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (19 Nov 2014)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 134. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the case of persons (details supplied) in County Sligo who have severe medical needs; his views on whether these persons warrant a full medical card and not the general practitioner visit card which they have been offered; if he will personally read the letters sent by various medical professionals, from within and without the Health...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Transport Provision (18 Nov 2014)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 109. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the number of Garda vehicles operating out of Carrick-on-Shannon Garda station in County Leitrim has been reduced by two Garda cars, one Garda transport vehicle and one Garda motorcycle in recent months in view of the number of gardaí stationed there and the volume of tourist traffic in the town and surrounding area; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (18 Nov 2014)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 382. To ask the Minister for Health if services in the accident and emergency department in Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, County Galway, are to have their opening hours reduced to 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. or 12 hour accident and emergency in the next six months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43941/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Septic Tank Grants (18 Nov 2014)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 529. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if, in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon whose septic tank has failed inspection, the septic tank having not been registered, and who, through economic circumstances, is unable to meet the costs of remediation, he will issue the grant for persons who meet the income criteria and who have no...

Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Nov 2014)

Michael Fitzmaurice: First, I have been contacted by many families in recent months, particularly from my own electoral area, and some have been crying on the telephone about what is going on. All Members are aware that no matter how one dresses up these figures, between 2,000 and 2,500 people are waiting to gain access to the fair deal scheme. At present, it is not a fair deal but is a bad deal and that is how...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Further Education and Training Strategy: Discussion (12 Nov 2014)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Unfortunately not.