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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I am concerned not about the age of the vehicles but the mileage. Many of the cars in the Dundalk and Drogheda areas could be used on a 24-hour basis and it would not take long to get 300,000 km on the clock. The vehicle could be only two or three years old. The age of the vehicle does not bother me. The figure of 287 new vehicles seems high but I have a feeling that many more cars are...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I did not think the figure was as high as that or that there were 3,000 full-time civilians. I know the target is 4,000. I welcome the extra 500 front-line gardaí in the area. Will the extra Garda staff coming on stream in 2019 help to increase the civilian staff from 3,000 to 4,000? Is that going to happen in a short period? If we can get a couple of hundred more gardaí on the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019)

Peter Fitzpatrick: In my time as a member of this committee, I have never once mentioned or criticised Garda overtime. I come from County Louth where two gardaí were murdered in recent years. When a garda leaves the house for the day, there is no guarantee that he or she will come back. I have always said that the Garda does a fantastic job and has done over recent years, especially when Templemore...

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Peter Fitzpatrick: More than 10,500 people are homeless. Since 2014, the number of families who are homeless has increased by 354%. One in three persons living in emergency accommodation is a child. These figures do not include the people who live with families and friends who, I can vouch, come in daily and weekly to my constituency office. The figures also do not include people who live in squats, those...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Dec 2019)

Peter Fitzpatrick: In recent years, I have raised the issue of local needs requirements in the context of the planning process. There are currently families living in wee villages but it is impossible for them to get planning permission to build in the countryside. I have raised this matter with the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government many times. In all counties, there are large numbers of...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Nov 2019)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I attended a meeting with Deputy Breathnach at DKIT this morning. It is a fantastic college. There is currently a problem relating to its status as a technical university. Some 5,300 students attend DKIT, while there are more than 500 members of staff. If DKIT does not get its act together by April 2020, it will risk losing out on its part of the €90 million in funding set aside...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Town and Village Renewal Scheme (26 Nov 2019)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 449. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the request (details supplied) for consideration to request an amendment to a grant allocation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48597/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Nov 2019)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The 2019 Environmental Protection Agency report reveals that raw sewage is being released into the environment every day, with coastal areas being the worst affected. In County Louth six areas have been identified and need investment badly. These are Blackrock, Castlebellingham, Dunleer, Omeath, Tallanstown and Dundalk. Omeath is still without a wastewater treatment plant. Blackrock and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (21 Nov 2019)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 155. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for hip surgery at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Navan, County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48430/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Nov 2019)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The Government has committed to having 1 million electric vehicles on the roads by 2030, which is welcome. The problem, however, is that the cost of purchasing such vehicles, compared to a petrol or diesel car, is far too high. Moreover, the batteries must be replaced after eight years at a crazy cost of more than €10,000. On Claire Byrne's television programme last Monday a family...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Nov 2019)

Peter Fitzpatrick: A very serious drug turf war is going on between two criminal gangs based mainly in Drogheda, with members of both gangs living locally in Louth and Meath. This began in July 2018 when a drug dealer was shot and survived. A man was subsequently murdered in Clogherhead in August, and another man was recently shot dead in a lovely quiet cul-de-sac in Bettystown. The Garda and I suspect that...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Oct 2019)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The Government must allow local authorities to build on their own landbanks. The Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, has stated that the development of publicly owned residential land for social and affordable housing is a priority for the Government and he promised to make billions of euro available for this. Louth County Council has 52 acres of land...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction Legislation (23 Oct 2019)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 144. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the assisted human assisted reproduction Bill in view of the fact that it has been two years since the announcement of the Bill with public funding proposed to start in January 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43707/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Oct 2019)

Peter Fitzpatrick: -----the Minister was referring to the abortion pill. If it is unacceptable for a woman to be forced to source a pill online to terminate her pregnancy, surely it is unacceptable for a woman to be forced, due to the cost, to source drugs online-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Oct 2019)

Peter Fitzpatrick: -----to help bring her pregnancy successfully to full term.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Oct 2019)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Hyperemesis gravidarum is a serious and debilitating illness that affects fewer than 1% of women during pregnancy. It is an extreme form of morning sickness where the infected woman is unable to tolerate even moderate amounts of food, including water. Although the condition improves after three months for some women, for others the condition lasts for the full nine months. Cariban is a drug...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2019)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I am supposed to be sharing time but we will see if the Deputy turns up. Whether we like it or not, Brexit will affect everyone on this island of Ireland, everybody in the UK and everybody in Europe. This process has been going on for the past three years. It has been part of every conversation in every household in the country. Tuesday's budget was preparation for a no-deal Brexit but...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries Stocks (8 Oct 2019)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 368. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding the large amount of fish being reported as unrecognisable as normal fish (details supplied) in the north east; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40597/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Sep 2019)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Last week in the Chamber, I welcomed the Government's plan to introduce 1 million electrically propelled vehicles by 2030. However, I complained about the lack of the power points around the country, with approximately 1,200 installed at present, and I also complained about the cost of installing these operation points. ESB ecars has received €37 million since 2010, which works out...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Sep 2019)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The Government promised to end the sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2030 and to introduce over 1 million electrically propelled vehicles by 2030. In the past 12 months, the number of electric vehicles has doubled. The function of the ESB's ecars programme, which was introduced in 2010, is to hasten the introduction of 1 million electric vehicles and to move transport away from the dirt,...