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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulations (21 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 369. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm that pursuant to European Union Regulation No. 639/2014, European Union Regulations Nos. 1120/2009 and 1121/2009 are repealed; the reason European Union Regulations Nos. 1120/2009 and 1121/2009 are still listed in annex 3 of the 2015 basic payment scheme terms and conditions in circumstances where they appear to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulations (21 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 370. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm that the European Union regulations listed at the back of the basic payment scheme 2015 (details supplied) are in fact repealed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15563/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulations (21 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 371. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views that listing 43 pieces of European Union legislation with the basic payment scheme 2015, some of which appear to have been repealed, creates undue uncertainty for applicants and their advisers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15569/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (21 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 519. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the future of the Rosalie unit in Castlerea, County Roscommon; his views that the future of this unit must be clarified immediately in order to bring an end to the stress, worry and apprehension being endured by residents and their families as a result of the current uncertainty; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Funding (21 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 635. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will clarify the status of the loans taken on by Irish Water; if these loans are counted as part of the national debt or if they are now separate from, and no longer constituting part of, the State's national debt; the way these loans are now classified by EUROSTAT, and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: EirGrid (21 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the delegates for their presentation. Mr. Slye indicated that expenditure on the project had reduced from an estimated €4.2 billion to €3.2 billion and, ultimately, to €2.7 billion. He talked about how the international panel had found in 2012 that undergrounding would cost three times as much as proceeding with the overground option. He suggested that he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: EirGrid (21 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Can Mr. Slye nail this for me please because we are going around in circles?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: EirGrid (21 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: In business one has to project for the future. In ten to 15 years' time, does Mr. Slye think that when England builds five new plants they will be bothered about taking electricity from us? They have kicked wind energy to touch. If we have an interconnector with France, does Mr. Slye think that we can compete? We have had meetings here to talk about energy security throughout Europe. In...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: EirGrid (21 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: In general terms? Just think of it all year round.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: EirGrid (21 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What I am trying to nail down is that, in Mr. Slye's projection for ten or 15 years' time, 70% of the time we will buy in electricity cheaper than producing it. Is there a cost-effectiveness in what we spend now for that 30%? Is it going to pay us?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: EirGrid (21 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: If we produce it for 30% of the time in ten years' time, given what we have to spend to put networks together throughout the country, will it be cost effective?

Self-Employed and the SME Sector: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I commend Deputy Calleary for bringing forward this motion. Most people in the private sector around the country are employed by small and medium-sized businesses - one, two, three and four-person operations. Entrepreneurs never got a hand or leg up and had to do things on their own. Many of them have employed people countrywide, fought their way through the recession and struggled on...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (23 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 92. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will make the provision of comfort slat mats eligible for grant aid under the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme 2 when it opens for applications later in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16033/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Management (23 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 95. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the figures for the net discounted revenue and projected financial loss resulting from the reduction in forest productivity and premature clear felling at a location (details supplied) in County Roscommon, due to turbine base construction, road construction and reconstruction, mast construction and turbulence avoidance felling; and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 96. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the projected timber and financial losses resulting from wind blow, precipitated by tree felling, pursuant to the construction and ongoing maintenance of a location (details supplied) in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16088/15]

Mortgage Arrears and Repossessions: Motion [Private Members] (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the opportunity to contribute on this debate. I acknowledge Deputy Donnelly for proposing this motion. He understands finance and has worked in various fields in different countries. The one thing we should take from this debate is that the Government should listen to what Deputy Donnelly is proposing.

Mortgage Arrears and Repossessions: Motion [Private Members] (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Ironically, we listened to the spring statement today. Everyone welcomes good news and we do not want to be pessimistic, but as that debate was happening, I glanced at my telephone and saw that a family of six in Cork was sleeping in a car. This is the Ireland in which we live. We must ask ourselves where we are going as a nation. In recent months in particular, more people have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for the presentation. I agree with Deputy Kyne that it is a good thing the problem at Derrybrien and Roxborough has been solved. It is a sad day when farmers must get together to get justice for themselves, when common sense did not prevail until we headed for the steps of the court. I refer to the pictures. I am a fair while around looking at land. Is there any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am looking at the photograph which I showed earlier. With all due respect to Mr. Evans who stated he is not anyone's keeper, while I understand the amount of work the Department does, many assessments are straightforward. Guidelines are required as otherwise we will have many more cases such as the Derrybrien case. An inspector will visit a site and arrive at a conclusion that may differ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is there any joined-up thinking with the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht on all this? With all due respect to the witnesses, they do their job, and I understand that fully, but before they arrive, another crowd will have landed out at a farm and will have told the farmer to do X, Y and Z and that he cannot do X, Y and Z. He or she will have complied with that only for the...