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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (27 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 33. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason that rural customers should pay a higher standing-charge than urban users; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46599/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children who applied for and received school bus tickets to date in 2022 who are attending a secondary school and who did not previously hold a school bus ticket; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46716/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children who applied for and received school bus tickets to date in 2022 who are attending a primary school and who did not previously hold a ticket; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46717/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children who applied for a school bus ticket to date in 2022 who are attending a secondary school and were refused a ticket due to there being no place on the bus; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46718/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will investigate the reason that a pupil (details supplied) who applied for a school bus ticket in April 2022 and who has been using the school transport service for the past four years and is paying for this service has been advised that there is no bus ticket despite the bus travelling the route on a daily basis at 50% capacity; and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (27 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 509. To ask the Minister for Health if he will engage with the HSE to ensure that the current staffing numbers for neurology nurse specialists in the neurology department in University Hospital Galway is addressed given that patients are unnecessarily waiting longer for diagnosis and treatment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46971/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 41. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the new grant for the refurbishment of old derelict houses will be extended to rural areas given that at present the scheme it is only available in certain towns. [46755/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: First, I welcome the guests. Has any progress been made with the Department over the last few months?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: On the medicines.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Has any progress been made on the term "responsible person" that everyone refers to?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is there going to be any recognition? My understanding is that there would be advice out there that would say that there are openings under the European regulation for the interpretation to be looked at in a way that would accommodate those people. Has there been any breakthrough on this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Did I hear, or was I hearing wrong, that there is some legal challenge being taken against the Department at the moment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Maybe not. It might be just talk. When Mr. Doyle says that the Department needs to look at this and decide, does he know if this decision is expected shortly? How long is a piece of string? When does it all have to be finalised one way or another?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It might be an advantage at the moment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: In the line of medicines, if there is free trade, is Mr. Carroll also saying that people can get their medicines in the North no problem and shoot across the Border?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Most farmers are dealing with co-operatives and some are dealing with chemists and veterinarians. They will have built up a relationship with all of those people down through the years. These are people whom the farmers have dealt with over a number of years and who nearly know what they need each time. They have experience with it. Each is basically a suitably qualified person. Am I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is there a worry among co-ops and, indeed, different pharmacists and so on? Is it a problem, or is there a fear, as this is being put together that vets in the Department and elsewhere will basically have a monopoly? We were all assured at the beginning of this process because we brought up at every debate that we felt it was not a good scenario. It puts a farmer in a fairly awkward...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Mr. Carroll said there does not seem to be any clear guidance at the moment with regard to fertiliser. Let us say a person does not get a single farm payment or does not have a herd number. He or she might have a horse or an ass or whatever and might just be farming as a hobby and only be getting a few bags of fertiliser. It is not clear at the moment, from what Mr. Carroll is saying, how...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: If the Department is hellbent on knowing the amount of fertiliser that is bought in Ireland, it will not be in a position to know that realistically. It will have a fair idea about maybe 90% of it but there could be another 10% it might not know about when, by the way, it is trying to save the world.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The import statistics are there, but Mr. Carroll mentioned a while ago that fertiliser goes up and down across the Border so it is sort of hard to nail it down.