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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am asking about an average annual figure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am aware that forestry can deliver 10 tonnes per acre.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is Dr. Renou-Wilson telling me that peat delivers less sequestration?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What about my question on the middle of the bog, which Dr. Renou-Wilson said would be drained, when I asked about Ray Flynn and RPS?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: So it needs to be clarified to people that not every bog is affected by cutting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Based on what I have heard from the scientists I met, am I also correct in saying that where turf cutting takes place for domestic purposes on what we call the cut-away bog, that its regeneration is much faster than on high bog?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am not talking about peat, which is in the air, but is it not the case that following domestic turf cutting, where it has been tested by scientists the regeneration of bog has been phenomenal?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: No, there was still cutting at the face bank but out on the-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: One thing needs to be made clear by the committee. The National Parks and Wildlife Service is trying to resolve an issue in conjunction with ecologists and scientists and they are trying to find alternatives for people to make sure that those 53 bogs are as far as possible preserved and that we can get re-wetting done. We must also ensure that minerals from land do not come in. We must...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Closures (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 276. To ask the Minister for Health the reason beds in the Sacred Heart Hospital, County Roscommon are being left empty at present despite the general bed crisis nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42938/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation Provision (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 277. To ask the Minister for Health the reason patients in acute services are reportedly taken directly to private nursing homes until their fair deal application process is complete; the reason the transitional funding reportedly available to private nursing homes is not open to HSE nursing homes, such as the Sacred Heart Hospital, County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 278. To ask the Minister for Health the reason no progress has been made to date on the promised 50 bed extension to the Sacred Heart Hospital, County Roscommon; if a design team has been appointed; if construction will commence in 2020; if it will be finished by 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42940/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Savings (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 318. To ask the Minister for Health when additional funding will be put in place to address the issue of staff shortages within the home support coordinators across the HSE community west for the past four months (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43117/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Civil Service Code of Conduct (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 452. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number and grade of staff within his Department who have been sanctioned for breaching section 14 of the Civil Service code of conduct; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43362/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Civil Service Code of Conduct (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 453. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number and grade of staff that have been granted permission by his Department to act on behalf of an association (details supplied) or any group or organisation that has interests with his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43363/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Usage (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 454. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is a helpline which farmers can contact if they have slurry to spread; if so, the contact number for the helpline; the process which follows once a farmer contacts the helpline; if the farmers that contact the helpline will be inspected before they are granted permission to spread slurry; if the farmers will be more likely...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 455. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the frequency planned for the new beef taskforce to meet regularly once it meets initially; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43365/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 630. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason persons on five different tiers of the State pension (contributory) only received a percentage of the €5 increase with some only receiving a €2 increase with regard to the Budget 2019 announcement of a €5 increase across the board for social welfare recipients; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions Payments (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 631. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason recipients of the State pension (contributory) and non-contributory pension did not receive their first payment increase until the last Friday of March 2019 with regard to the Budget 2019 announcement of a €5 increase across the board for social welfare recipients payable from March 2019; and if she will...

Topical Issue Debate: Beef Industry (17 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I, too, thank the Minister of State for his reply. There are a number of issues on which clarification is needed. Where stands the price index promised a month ago? As pointed out by the Minister of State, threatening behaviour serves no purpose and none of us here would agree with it. In regard to the judgments hanging over people's heads, we need a goodwill gesture such as a phone call...