Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Tánaiste's comments on trees but this needs to put into a regulation and funded. No more of this talk can go on. We can never endure again what we are after enduring. Will the Minister for trade and enterprise look at small businesses that have been closed over the past week? Some of them are going into two weeks now. A lot of places do not have power yet. Will the Minister for rural affairs to look at community hubs and a generator that a doctor can set up? We need to look at that. We need to learn. On the farmers, I appreciate there is a generator grant under TAMS, but there is not for old sheds the roof has gone off and no insurance. We need movement on that rapidly. Generators are a thing in rural areas that we need to look at, encourage and try to bring some in. A lot of money has been spent on NBI by the taxpayers of this country. Broadband is a fabulous thing but the problem is it is decimated at the moment. I have no great faith in Eir, because it will hardly fix a phone for you not to mind putting up the poles we need to put up, but it will need to be brought to task to make sure it replaces the infrastructure because-----

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