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Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Medical Certificates (17 Feb 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 928. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be assessed for a primary medical certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8801/21]

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Feb 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I only have ten minutes. For the record, we need to clarify what was said by a previous speaker about the property tax in Galway. When his party decided to bring in a property tax, €12 million was collected from the people and the equalisation fund was sent to Ms Angela Merkel. That was decided by a person he supports. On top of that, the water he drinks, the gas that keeps him...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (24 Feb 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 206. To ask the Minister for Finance if fishing boats or commercial freight and passenger vessels are exempt from carbon tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10130/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Medical Certificates (24 Feb 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 955. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an assessment for a primary medical certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10076/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Young Farmers Scheme (24 Feb 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1081. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a young farmer payment will issue to a person (details supplied) for the years 2019 and 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10032/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (24 Feb 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1082. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of cows that have been slaughtered within a month of a calf being registered to them by breed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10131/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (24 Feb 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1083. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown of the herd sizes which submitted animals for slaughter here in the first two weeks of February 2021; the number of farmer herd numbers versus feedlot herd numbers which submitted cattle for slaughter in the same period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10132/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Passports (24 Feb 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1084. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for changing the data presented on a blue passport card for a bovine animal to include the breed of its dam; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10133/21]

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. First, I wish to say that it is regrettable and a sad thing to hear that the Minister for Health had to erect a security fence around his house.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: We stand in solidarity with the Minister. There is no place for that in Irish society. We can have our differences in here but respect must be shown to people's families and children-----

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: -----and to people themselves. We live in an Ireland where people are coming in and going out. I spoke last night to a young couple in Donegal. They are living in a caravan that is damp and are expecting a baby on 1 April next. They cannot get an electrician for two days to finish their house out in the countryside in order that they can live in it. We live in a country where a person...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Meanwhile, there were about 22 infections with the virus in the construction sector. Have we lost the courage to make decisions because we got a bite on the arse at Christmas? I was one of those people who said we should then open up things. I put my hand up in that regard. However, I ask the Government to not lose courage and for its members to stand up and be counted. Getting one bite...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Feb 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Over the past six or eight months, a court case was resolved regarding people who are entitled to a primary medical certificate. Following a lot of the usual spin doctoring from the HSE and Department of Health, this is open but people are not getting appointments. The HSE and Department are prioritising Covid and leaving people with disabilities unable to get a primary medical certificate....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Feb 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Peat is coming into Ireland from five countries around Europe. This situation is meant to be the same for everyone in Europe, but here in Ireland people cannot stir because of the environmental impact assessment, EIA, requirement for 30 ha. This situation must be addressed.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Young Farmers Scheme (25 Feb 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 352. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the young farmers scheme 2020 will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10654/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Communications (25 Feb 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 373. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a departmental official can block a member of the public from contacting any department official via his or her official departmental email; if so, the offence the member of the public must have committed to warrant the sanction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10855/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rewetting of Peatland and its Impact on Farmers: Discussion (2 Mar 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I do not know what is wrong. I am in my office in Dublin but there is nothing on my screen. There is some technical issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rewetting of Peatland and its Impact on Farmers: Discussion (2 Mar 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I do not have the Chairman's pretty face in front me, whatever problem is occurring. I welcome the witnesses. I had a Zoom meeting with Bord na Móna one week ago. There are concerns around the country about drains that have been deepened and pumps are operating, boundary or mairning drains between farmers and drains that go through land to a river. There are places near Ballinasloe...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rewetting of Peatland and its Impact on Farmers: Discussion (2 Mar 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Will the farming organisations be pushing for a written agreement for the future? Will they be working together to try to achieve this? At my meeting with them, while they were very co-operative, they were not jumping out through the fence to provide a written agreement. This needs to be a red line issue for the farming community.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rewetting of Peatland and its Impact on Farmers: Discussion (2 Mar 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: There are a few points I want to come back to there. From the meeting I had with them, a lot of the bogs at issue were raised bogs once but a lot of the peat would be off them now. We have bogs around us, 3,000 ha that were re-wetted by the NPWS years ago and to be honest, there has not been a problem, provided it is done right. That is the bottom line. The ecologists I spoke to are...