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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Administration (21 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 365. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 142 of 26 March 2015, if he will confirm the European Union regulatory basis for a verification visit under the single payment schemes and under the basic payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15526/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Commonage Land (21 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 366. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 142 of 26 March 2015, if he will agree that he does not afford commonage land owners the right to refuse his Department's inspectors entry onto their lands where verification visits and / or land parcel verifications occur; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15527/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Commonage Framework Plans (21 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 368. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a commonage framework plan remains valid after its implementation date expires; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15549/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulations (21 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 369. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm that pursuant to European Union Regulation No. 639/2014, European Union Regulations Nos. 1120/2009 and 1121/2009 are repealed; the reason European Union Regulations Nos. 1120/2009 and 1121/2009 are still listed in annex 3 of the 2015 basic payment scheme terms and conditions in circumstances where they appear to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulations (21 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 370. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm that the European Union regulations listed at the back of the basic payment scheme 2015 (details supplied) are in fact repealed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15563/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulations (21 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 371. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views that listing 43 pieces of European Union legislation with the basic payment scheme 2015, some of which appear to have been repealed, creates undue uncertainty for applicants and their advisers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15569/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (21 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 519. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the future of the Rosalie unit in Castlerea, County Roscommon; his views that the future of this unit must be clarified immediately in order to bring an end to the stress, worry and apprehension being endured by residents and their families as a result of the current uncertainty; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Funding (21 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 635. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will clarify the status of the loans taken on by Irish Water; if these loans are counted as part of the national debt or if they are now separate from, and no longer constituting part of, the State's national debt; the way these loans are now classified by EUROSTAT, and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (23 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 92. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will make the provision of comfort slat mats eligible for grant aid under the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme 2 when it opens for applications later in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16033/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Management (23 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 95. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the figures for the net discounted revenue and projected financial loss resulting from the reduction in forest productivity and premature clear felling at a location (details supplied) in County Roscommon, due to turbine base construction, road construction and reconstruction, mast construction and turbulence avoidance felling; and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 96. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the projected timber and financial losses resulting from wind blow, precipitated by tree felling, pursuant to the construction and ongoing maintenance of a location (details supplied) in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16088/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme (30 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 26. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht with 17 years of attempting to implement the habitats directive having resulted in only partial relocation of domestic turf cutters from two of the 53 so-called special areas of conservation raised bogs, if her views that efforts to resolve the problems imposed upon domestic turf cutters by the Government's designation of these...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Special Protection Areas Designation (30 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 28. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has met, and is working with, the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government on behalf of farmers whose lands are designated and who are being prevented from stock-proofing their land by replacing old and damaged fences as a result of regulations introduced by her Department and the Department of the...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turbary Rights (30 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 34. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department has contacted the Department of Justice and Equality demanding that gardaí be sent out to patrol bogs with a view to preventing domestic turf cutters from exercising their rights to cut their own turf, for their own use, on their own family turf banks; if she will confirm that it is her Department that has...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Felling Licences Applications (6 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 209. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a review of the utilisation of felling licences Nos. 15843 and 15842, with specific reference to the loss of growing stock as a result of windblow adjacent to wind turbine felling sites, focusing in particular on felling operations in Doughall Forest Sliabh Bán, having regard to the Code of Best Forest...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (6 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the glowing report the Government has given itself in its spring economic statement whether she will immediately reverse the 15% cut in resource teaching hours for students with special education needs that she imposed in 2012; if she will restore resource teaching hours for students with special education needs to the levels...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (7 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason applications to the National Council for Special Needs Education for resource teaching hours on behalf of students with special education needs, that miss the March 2015 deadline because schools are waiting for the relevant documentation from health care professionals, cannot be processed until October 2015; her views that in such...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Misconduct Allegations (12 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 405. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will refer a Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission complaint, made by a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon, alleging that gardaí failed to adequately investigate an allegation of fraud, to the Independent Review Panel, consisting of two senior and five junior counsel; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (13 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 58. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if it is the case that the rate band changes introduced by her on 1 September 2012 militate disproportionately against working women when they reach pension age, as evidenced by the fact that approximately 61% of those negatively impacted by the rate band changes are women, and approximately 39% are men; while she may have sought to ensure that...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Administration (13 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 116. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will extend the closing date for receipt of completed applications for the green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme by at least one month, in view of the fact that he has imposed new terms and conditions from 5 May 2015, just 12 days prior to the current closing date, which involves a change in the ranking system for Tier 3...