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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 533. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 962 of 11 May 2021, if the numbers of hectares outlined by the Forest Service in each of the yearly planting programmes for the past five years are based on the area shown on form 2, the certified species map; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27545/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 534. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 963 of 11 May 2021, if his previous answer is accepting that the screening process was not carried out correctly in relation to the case outlined (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27546/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 535. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 964 of 11 May 2021, the exact number of direct ecologists working with the Forest Service on a full-time basis; the person or body that employs the 12 other full-time ecologists that are not assigned civil service grades; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27547/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 536. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 965 of 11 May 2021, the reason he states that he expects output of licences for May to be higher when the dashboard for the week ending 7 May 2021 noted that the Forest Service had only issued 36 licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27548/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 537. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 966 of 11 May 2021, if the Forest Service sought expert advice to make these changes to procedures and practices or if all changes were introduced by the Forest Service headed up by the senior inspector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27549/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 538. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 967 of 11 May 2021, if a person (details supplied) is the project manager for Project Woodland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27550/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 539. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the forest service advised Coillte to withdraw any forestry licence applications at any point in recent years; if this did happen, the reason behind this decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27551/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 540. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm under what the GPC category did the forest service approve and grant-aid Coillte/Bord na Mona to plant disused peatlands with native species; if he will confirm whether or not the same scheme is available to every landowner in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27552/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 541. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will refer the forest service to the Public Accounts Committee in order to assess whether it is value for money for the Irish taxpayer, given the current state of the forestry sector when it comes to timber supplies and the backlog of licence applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27553/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (25 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 542. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown of the frequency that grading machines in each of the Department approved meat plants were calibrated by Department staff in 2020 and 2021 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27554/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (25 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 543. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a breakdown, summary of any of the faults, discrepancies that were detected following inspections or calibration checks of grading machines in Departmental approved meat plants in 2020 and 2021 to date; the actions taken to remedy the problems; if sanctions were handed out by his Department to the meat plants...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (25 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 567. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when his Department will release the file requested by the agriculture appeals office for a person (details supplied) who has an appeal submitted since 25 February 2019; the cause of the delay in having this file released to the appeals office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28354/21]

Independent Beef Regulator: Motion [Private Members] (26 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome this motion. Anybody who thinks an ombudsman - and I think the Government is looking that way - will solve anything is delusional. Every day, we all write letters to constituents telling them to go to the Ombudsman. What happens? Nothing. We need a regulator with teeth who can seize computers to find out what is happening. This time last year, beef was priced at 350 or 360...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The Prime Time programme about the loss of lives due to mental health issues would have brought a tear out of anyone's eye. Over the last 16 or 18 months during Covid, many people have struggled with mental health. In Roscommon, the acute unit, which was once a 33-bed unit, was reduced to a 23-bed unit. Over recent years, the HSE in its great wisdom decided it would close day-care centres...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is good to hear that the Tánaiste is disturbed, given that he launched the service in question. I will tell him the reason. Those involved are saying that their budgets are gone. In one area, they bought pictures costing €250 each to put on the walls in order to make things look nice. Televisions have been put in. Painters are going everywhere in different places. Now,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (27 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 134. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which the national resolution fund will be financed in accordance with EU Regulation 713/2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28923/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (1 Jun 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 207. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when driver theory test centres will be reopened for persons due to sit their theory test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29129/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (1 Jun 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 394. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if secondary school principals have the authority to remove a subject from the school syllabus for leaving certificate if there are fewer than ten students willing to participate in that subject; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29240/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (1 Jun 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 395. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options available to fifth year students whose school refuses to offer them their subjects of choice for the leaving certificate thus affecting their career path and future when there is a dedicated teacher in the school already teaching the subject; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29241/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (1 Jun 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 528. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an extension of time will be granted to those participants in the GLAS scheme who are due to have wild bird cover sown before 31 May as a result of recent weather conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29128/21]