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Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Sep 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: When farmers are applying for the single farm payment, they must do so before a certain date. If an inspector comes out and finds something wrong with an application, the farmer can appeal the decision by a certain date. In every other instance one can think of, things have to be done by a particular date. However, the Minister is saying that when it comes to the forestry appeals system,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Speech and Language Therapy (1 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if external services to schools such as speech and language therapists during Covid-19 will be allowed to resume; if not, when the services will resume; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27789/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Meat Processing Plants (1 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 406. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to a company (details supplied) offering advice or representing persons or bodies from the meat processing industry or their subsidiaries in a capacity on transfer pricing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28020/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Teagasc Activities (1 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 407. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Teagasc has verified and qualified the science involved in the Bord Bia approved grass-fed standard; the tests Teagasc carried out on behalf of him to validate the standard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28021/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord Bia (1 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 408. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the correspondence or consultation that has taken place between An Bord Bia and the retailers, a group (details supplied) and the farm organisations regarding the PGI application; if copies of same can be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28022/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (1 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 409. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the retailers have been invited to participate in the beef market task force regarding the PGI application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28023/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Immigrant Investor Programme (1 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 410. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the doubts his Department reportedly expressed to the immigrant investor programme evaluation committee over the strategic value of a development (details supplied) as reported in the media; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28024/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Immigrant Investor Programme (1 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 411. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the person or body that authorised communications (details supplied) to the Department of Justice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28025/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Covid-19 on the Agriculture Sector and Priorities for CAP and Brexit: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I congratulate Senator Lombard on his appointment. I also congratulate the Minister and welcome him and his departmental officials, Mr. Savage and Ms McPhillips. I have some quick questions. Starting with Brexit, is there a tie-in between the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Department of Transport? I refer to meat exports, haulage, sheep and cattle and the live...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Covid-19 on the Agriculture Sector and Priorities for CAP and Brexit: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I have a few quick questions. Why has the Department not got somebody like Dr. Frank Mitloehner to do studies on grass sequestration, as the agriculture sector remains a whipping boy in this regard? There is propaganda and I started looked at the RTÉ programme the other evening but I just turned it off. People are being paid to say that we should not drink milk or eat meat. It is pure...

Brexit and Business: Statements (7 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this issue. I have spoken to the Minister of State, Deputy Troy, previously, but this is my first time to speak to him in the Dáil, so I wish him luck as a new Minister. The uncertainty around Brexit is ferocious. Whether people like it or not and whether they live in a city or a rural area, we must realise that food is transported between...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (7 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 247. To ask the Minister for Health if external services will resume for schools (details supplied) run by a religious organisation, such as speech and language therapy which ceased due to Covid-19; if so, when the services will resume; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29198/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Funding (8 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 253. To ask the Minister for Health if further funding will be given to the disability services sector in view of the current conditions and additional costs to them for PPE during Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29320/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Industry (8 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 329. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of producer group organisations his Department has approved; the number of producer group applications being considered or processed by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29462/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Industry (8 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 330. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the financial, operational and other supports provided by his Department on an ongoing basis to producer groups following their approval; his plans to enhance these supports; if so, the details of the enhanced supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29463/20]

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Budget Statement 2021 (13 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome this opportunity to speak on today's budget. Like most people who have spoken on the supports for businesses affected, I welcome what has been provided. The devil will be in the detail of all of this, however. I state that because many people this evening think that something like €5,000 will jump out to them every week if they are shut down. From what I have seen,...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise - Mineral Oil Tax (13 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: How any rural Deputy could support this baffles me. Any working couple in rural Ireland who needs a car or to heat a house will be at least €300 worse off next year. That amount will increase year on year until the difference compared with someone living in a city reaches approximately €40 per week. There are no alternatives. Show me where there is an electric tractor that...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise - Mineral Oil Tax (13 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Let the Government not twist and turn out of this. We are crucifying rural Ireland while also asking it to sequester this so-called carbon.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise - Mineral Oil Tax (13 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is there fresh water with that?

Financial Resolution No. 3: Value Added Tax (13 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I hope this measure works but if people are not going into these businesses because of the restrictions, it will be fairly difficult to pinpoint the figure involved. I support the measure but have a specific question on it. Hairdressers are included but it is my understanding that if a hairdresser and a beauty salon are operating on one premises, the VAT rate for one service will be 9% and...