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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. There are a few things we need to clarify. We met Bord na Móna last year and the year before. A document was given to us called Just Transition and it was to work until 2025 to 2027, and we have met Mr. Willie Noone several times. The rug is being pulled at the moment. We are trying to put seven or eight years into one. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I will allow the witnesses time to note my questions. A sum of €20 million has been ring-fenced for retrofitting in the midlands. How are the midlands defined? Will the money be ring-fenced to be used in certain counties? I do not accept that the Department is still considering the recent judgment on horticulture because it was issued two months ago. Is new legislation being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: They are degraded raised bogs. People are codding themselves about much of this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: That is good.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What about the funding for the emissions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What will the saving be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: If the ESB is buying forward, there has to be a saving.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The ESB will not be buying the carbon credits, so what is the saving?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The ESB will be selling the electricity because it will be generating it in a different way. What is the saving if the ESB is not buying the carbon credit?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I asked if it is included in our targets. It is not because I have heard Mr. Carroll answer the question already.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Let us make it simpler. It has no bearing on Ireland's targets under agriculture, energy and transport.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is Mr. Armstrong saying that, even though it is announced, we do not know what the transition fund for what we are calling the midlands is?

Personal Assistance Service: Motion (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I compliment Deputy Pringle and Jodie Neary for bringing forward the motion on personal assistants, which, like many others, I give my full support. As the previous Deputy noted, everyone tells people with a disability, especially wheelchair users, where they will go or what they should do. They make decisions without consulting them, which is totally disgraceful. We need to make sure...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Assisted Decision Making (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 271. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the provisions of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 will be fully operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47564/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Assisted Decision Making (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 273. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amendments being made in relation to the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015; the reason they are being carried out late; when they will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47566/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Wards of Court (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 272. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the families of the Wards of Court will be facilitated to represent their situation as the main stakeholders in the process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47565/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Quality Assurance Scheme (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 477. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the instances in which meat imported from another country can be processed in a boning hall, be packaged and then stamped with the Bord Bia quality mark; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47114/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Quality Assurance Scheme (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 478. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if meat imported from mainland Europe can be stamped with the Bord Bia quality mark in circumstances in which a percentage of the overall cost of getting the meat to the supermarket shelf is incurred here, boning and packaging for example; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47115/19]

Financial Challenges Facing RTÉ and its Revised Strategy 2020-2024: Statements (Resumed) (14 Nov 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this matter. First, as everybody is aware, RTÉ gives a good service throughout the country. I am not fluent but I know a good amount of Irish. I watch TG4 a lot because its coverage, especially on Sundays, of the GAA, rugby and the different fabrics of Irish life is extremely good. Often I would flick over from RTÉ 1 and stay watching TG4 a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (14 Nov 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 42. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has been lobbied in relation to flat rate VAT on feedlots; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46944/19]