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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Issues: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (27 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It was submitted to the Department as part of the questions, so I do not want to hear Mr. Hayes saying he does not know about it.

Independent Beef Regulator: Motion [Private Members] (26 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome this motion. Anybody who thinks an ombudsman - and I think the Government is looking that way - will solve anything is delusional. Every day, we all write letters to constituents telling them to go to the Ombudsman. What happens? Nothing. We need a regulator with teeth who can seize computers to find out what is happening. This time last year, beef was priced at 350 or 360...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 528. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Statutory Instrument was signed to give the Minister of State responsibility for forestry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27540/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 529. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the current senior inspector in forestry was appointed to that position; the length of time the person was given the role as senior inspector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27541/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 530. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Forest Service has written to every licence applicant whose application has exceeded the number of days without approval explaining the cause for delay in accordance with the charter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27542/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 531. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a circular is issued by the Forest Service, if the Forest Service inspector has to certify sites in accordance with the latest circulars issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27543/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 532. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a Forest Service inspector can advise and-or instruct a felling licence applicant that the Forest Service inspector will not approve a felling licence unless that applicant submits a forest road application for the same site as the felling licence application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27544/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 533. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 962 of 11 May 2021, if the numbers of hectares outlined by the Forest Service in each of the yearly planting programmes for the past five years are based on the area shown on form 2, the certified species map; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27545/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 534. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 963 of 11 May 2021, if his previous answer is accepting that the screening process was not carried out correctly in relation to the case outlined (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27546/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 535. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 964 of 11 May 2021, the exact number of direct ecologists working with the Forest Service on a full-time basis; the person or body that employs the 12 other full-time ecologists that are not assigned civil service grades; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27547/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 536. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 965 of 11 May 2021, the reason he states that he expects output of licences for May to be higher when the dashboard for the week ending 7 May 2021 noted that the Forest Service had only issued 36 licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27548/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 537. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 966 of 11 May 2021, if the Forest Service sought expert advice to make these changes to procedures and practices or if all changes were introduced by the Forest Service headed up by the senior inspector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27549/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 538. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 967 of 11 May 2021, if a person (details supplied) is the project manager for Project Woodland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27550/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 539. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the forest service advised Coillte to withdraw any forestry licence applications at any point in recent years; if this did happen, the reason behind this decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27551/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 540. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm under what the GPC category did the forest service approve and grant-aid Coillte/Bord na Mona to plant disused peatlands with native species; if he will confirm whether or not the same scheme is available to every landowner in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27552/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 541. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will refer the forest service to the Public Accounts Committee in order to assess whether it is value for money for the Irish taxpayer, given the current state of the forestry sector when it comes to timber supplies and the backlog of licence applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27553/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (25 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 542. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown of the frequency that grading machines in each of the Department approved meat plants were calibrated by Department staff in 2020 and 2021 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27554/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (25 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 543. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a breakdown, summary of any of the faults, discrepancies that were detected following inspections or calibration checks of grading machines in Departmental approved meat plants in 2020 and 2021 to date; the actions taken to remedy the problems; if sanctions were handed out by his Department to the meat plants...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (25 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 567. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when his Department will release the file requested by the agriculture appeals office for a person (details supplied) who has an appeal submitted since 25 February 2019; the cause of the delay in having this file released to the appeals office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28354/21]

Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The traffic in Dublin nearly had me beaten. I welcome the Bill. There is one issue I would like the Minister of State to clarify. My office has been onto her's about it already. Will people who have been in nursing homes for three to five years so far be covered under the three-year rule straight away when the legislation comes in? Going by what she has said, they will have to be there...

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