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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (13 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 505 of 6 May 2015, and notwithstanding the listing of numbers of teaching and teaching support staff and additional teaching posts in the said parliamentary question reply, if she will state, for the record of Dáil Éireann, whether or not she will immediately reverse the 15% cut in resource...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (13 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 199. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm that in order to comply with the water framework directive it will, in future, be necessary to apply water charges to rainwater that has been harvested on the private property of persons and businesses, and stored in tanks below a certain depth underground; if he will indicate the underground depth...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (14 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 153. To ask the Minister for Health further to this Deputy's correspondence to his Department on 18 March 2015, and the Minister of State's reply of 16 April 2014 (details supplied), if he will ensure that the Health Service Executive has the resources necessary to provide home help and the home care package to those persons in County Roscommon and in the south of County Leitrim who have been...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (19 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 265. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason funding for the school completion programme is no longer ring-fenced; if he will indicate the future of the programme, post-2015; his views on whether the current indeterminate nature of the funding is causing a problem for the programme, its participants and its teachers; whether the ring-fenced funding this programme...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data (26 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 749. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who availed of long-term nursing home care since the introduction of the nursing homes support scheme, also known as the fair deal scheme, from October 2009 to 31 December 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20789/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data (26 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 750. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who availed of the nursing homes support scheme, also known as the fair deal scheme, since its introduction in October 2009 to 31 December 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20790/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data (26 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 751. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who availed of the nursing homes support scheme, also known as the fair deal scheme, since its introduction in October 2009 to 31 December 2013, and who also availed of the ancillary state support loan scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20791/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data (26 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 752. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who availed of the nursing homes support scheme, also known as fair deal scheme, since its introduction in October 2009 to 31 December 2013, and who also availed of the ancillary state support loan scheme, which in turn resulted in a deferred charge being placed on their property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20792/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data (26 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 753. To ask the Minister for Health the number of farmers who availed of the nursing homes support scheme, also known as the fair deal scheme, since its introduction in October 2009 to 31 December 2013, and who also availed of the ancillary state support loan scheme, which in turn resulted in a deferred charge being placed against their farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Audiology Services Provision (27 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 159. To ask the Minister for Health if he will take all necessary steps to ensure that a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon, and persons in similar circumstances, will have access to an audiology test within a reasonable time frame in order that they may be fitted with a hearing aid; his views that it is entirely unsatisfactory that a person of 98 years of age would be required to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 247. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the fact that it is Government policy that An Post remain a strong and viable company, which will be in a position to provide a high-quality postal service and maintain a nationwide customer focused network of post offices in the community, if her Department's policy and practice of promoting financial institutions outside the post...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 248. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the fact that seven out of the eight of her Department's payment application forms delivered to An Post postmasters recently, as part of their stationary deliveries, recommend that prospective payment recipients should have their payments paid directly into accounts in financial institutions instead of to the local post office, her...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 249. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the fact that part three, on page six of her Department's pension application form (details supplied), positively recommends that prospective pension recipients should have their pensions paid into current, deposit or savings accounts in financial institutions, to the exclusion of the local post office; her views on her Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Administration (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 421. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 365 of 21 April 2015, if the phrase on-the-spot check in respect of eligibility in the regulations has a specific procedure prescribed under the regulations; the reason his Department deviates from this regulation when carrying out a land parcel identification system review which is not...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Administration (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 423. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 360 of 21 April 2015, if he is satisfied that it is appropriate to transfer statutory decision making powers in the manner stated; the reason it was not necessary to set up the land parcel identification system appeals committee by statutory instrument and make statutory provision for procedure...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Administration (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 424. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 360 of 21 April 2015, if he will confirm that an applicant who is subject to penalties after an eligibility inspection is afforded a statutory appeal procedure, but an applicant who is subject to reductions following an land parcel identification system review is not entitled to a statutory...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Administration (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 425. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No.360 of 21 April 2015, if the land parcel identification system ortho-imagery assessment that triggers a verification visit is made available to applicants prior to considering an appeal; if not, if they will be made available in future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21306/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Administration (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 429. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 364 of 21 April 2015, the reason his Department requires a verification visit, in circumstances where a land eligibility inspection process is already provided for under the direct payment scheme's regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21346/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Administration (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 438. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 360 of 21 April 2015, if he will confirm that his Department’s custom and practice is to notify landowners of private lands in advance of land parcel identification system verification visits, but his Department’s custom and practice is not to notify commonage land owners in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Administration (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 422. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to the recent publication of the guidelines on land eligibility, if he will confirm that these guidelines also apply to Article 34(2)(b)(i) of 73/2009 which was repealed and replaced by Article 34(2)(b)(i) 1307/2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21302/15]