Parliamentary questions

Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Data

Michael Fitzmaurice

276. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of applicants who received monetary compensation and turf deliveries categorised by year from January 2011 to the end of December 2014 in Barroughter bog, (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9634/15]

Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Data

Michael Fitzmaurice

280. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of compensation payments made to applicants which her Department has sought or is now seeking to have repaid to the Department categorised by year from January 2011 to the end of December 2014 in Barroughter bog, (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9702/15]

Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Data

Michael Fitzmaurice

284. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of applicants who have applied for relocation, and the number of applicants who have been successfully relocated, from Barroughter bog (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9706/15]

Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Data

Michael Fitzmaurice

285. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of plot owners who were paid money for turf plots in Barroughter bog (details supplied) in County Galway under schemes other than the cessation of turf cutting compensation scheme; the amounts paid to each recipient in such instances categorised by year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9715/15]

Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Eligibility

Michael Fitzmaurice

287. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of applicants who did not meet the criteria of the turf cutting cessation scheme, that is, were not cutting turf on their plots in any of the five reference years, or where their plots are cut out and have no raised bog remaining, categorised by year from January 2011 to the end of December 2014, in an area (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9792/15]

Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Payments

Michael Fitzmaurice

288. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of turf plots on which multiple compensation payments were made and the specific amounts paid for each such multiple plot, categorised by year from January 2011 to the end of December 2014, in an area (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9793/15]

Departmental Staff Relocation

Michael Fitzmaurice

53. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm receipt of a valid request in respect of a person (details supplied) to transfer from her Department's County Longford office to the Department's offices in Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim, which is now in excess of three years; if she will facilitate this transfer request; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9426/15]

Ministerial Correspondence

Michael Fitzmaurice

269. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the contents of an open letter to him, dated 19 February 2015, from the Irish Natura and Hill Farmers Association, which is supported by 21 other organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8887/15]

Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Payments

Michael Fitzmaurice

623. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of persons who received compensation in the Barroughter, Cloonmoylan and Ardgraigue bog complexes; the number that are individual plot owners; and if one, or more, family members are claiming on the same turf bank. [8891/15]

Disability Activation Projects

Michael Fitzmaurice

204. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection in view of the outstanding performance of the disability activation project also know as Project DAWN in the Roscommon Disability Support Group DALE Centre, Derrane, County Roscommon, in exceeding its targets in the first seven month of operation, if she will make provision for the extension of European Social Fund co-funding beyond April 2015, thereby preventing the negative impact the project's termination would have on its 170 participants, their families, and the six employees who will lose their jobs and their families; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8071/15]

Pension Provisions

Michael Fitzmaurice

62. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in view of the Government's claims that the Irish economy has turned the corner and is in recovery, if he will amend the temporary Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Acts to reduce the impact of the pension related deduction on the pensions of retired public servants, specifically those on modest pensions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7341/15]

Education Policy

Michael Fitzmaurice

195. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reverse the 15% cut to resource hours made by the previous Minister during the economic emergency; if she will reverse the resource hour cuts to pupils with dyslexia and general mild learning disabilities made by the previous Government in 2005 during the reign of the Celtic tiger; if she will reverse the cuts to English as an additional language teachers; if she will reverse the cuts to resource teachers for Travellers; if she will reverse the cuts to counsellors; if she will increase the number of learning support teachers to support our youngest children with potential learning difficulties, as per the learning support guidelines of 2000; if she will increase the number of learning support teachers, enabling schools to support gifted pupils in accordance with the Education Act 1998; if she will implement the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004, which appears to have remained in a state of perpetual deferral since its enactment; if she will reduce the pupil-teacher ratio in schools here and put an end to overcrowded classrooms for the betterment of our children and society as a whole; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7252/15]

Garda Complaints Procedures

Michael Fitzmaurice

326. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Justice and Equality when a review by an independent panel into a complaint against the Garda Síochána, arising from an incident with a person (details supplied) in County Mayo on 14 July 2013 will be completed. [7101/15]

State Pension (Contributory) Data

Michael Fitzmaurice

37. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will provide the figures, categorised on the basis of sex, for the number of persons who are currently in receipt of reduced State contributory pensions, due to the rate band changes she implemented on 1 September 2012, whereby rate band 20 to 47 was abolished and replaced by rate bands 20 to 29, 30 to 39 and 40 to 47; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6253/15]

Public Sector Reform Implementation

Michael Fitzmaurice

253. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason he has not sought the opening of formal negotiations on giving effect to the various elements of the Civil Service renewal plan with the public service unions; if his attention has been drawn to the unions that have indicated their willingness to participate when his Department issued the prerequisite invitation to discussions; the delay in opening implementation negotiations on this priority issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5962/15]

Court Procedures

Michael Fitzmaurice

336. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans, if any, to review and, if necessary, to amend the 1986 regulations contained in Statutory Instrument No. 15 of 1986, specifically in relation to Order 40, subsections (6), (9) and (15), which impose a strict requirement for the accurate inclusion of the prescribed information in all circumstances; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5640/15]

Physical Education

Michael Fitzmaurice

513. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the merits of expanding the University of Limerick’s health and sciences faculty's third study into flexibility and neuromuscular development in adolescents in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5735/15]

Student Grant Scheme Eligibility

Michael Fitzmaurice

553. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Education and Skills if recognition will be provided by Student Universal Support Ireland towards insolvency arrangements in the calculation of reckonable income for the purposes of student grant awards; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6115/15]

Water and Sewerage Schemes Provision

Michael Fitzmaurice

574. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of contracts which were put out to tender by the local authorities in 2011, 2012 and 2013 for water services, that is for waste water treatment, water treatment, bore holes, pumping stations and so on; if he will provide a breakdown of these figures per each individual local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5564/15]

Water Services Provision

Michael Fitzmaurice

597. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm, that in order to comply with the water framework directive, legislation is required for the registration and licensing of all private wells; the charge that will be applied for private well registration and licensing, if water charges are applied to water extracted from registered and licensed private wells; is the forthcoming registration and licensing of private wells the reason Irish Water insists in retaining account records for those whose sole water supply is from a private well and who are not now and never intend to be, Irish Water customers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6028/15]