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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (13 Jun 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 530. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans her Department has in place to accommodate students with learning difficulties to have the option of having two or three different levels in the Leaving Certificate examinations, having already had the option and ability to complete the Junior Certificate examinations at three different levels, in order that all students, regardless...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (13 Jun 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 697. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department is honouring the brokered Management Transformation Framework Document delivered in June 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27464/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (13 Jun 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 698. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the implementation of the outcome of industrial relations mechanisms through the WRC for the purposes of ensuring the smooth transition of water services to Uisce Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27465/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (13 Jun 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 699. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will intervene and instruct the local authorities to commit in writing that all earnings will be paid to workers who remain in their local authority after 2026, as no loss of earnings was agreed at the time by CCMA and the LGMA (local authority representatives); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27467/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Sector Pensions (13 Jun 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1191. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied ) who is a retiree of the HSE will receive their arrears of payment under the recent pay agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27746/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (13 Jun 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1354. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the technological university development fund will be made available in advance of the expiration of the technological university transformation fund (TUTF) on 31 August 2023; what level funding is going to be made available under the new TUT fund; if the Technological University (TUS) who merged more recently will be treated equally with...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (20 Jun 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 461. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when decisions will be made in the applications for atypical visas by a nursing home (details supplied), which has applied for 35 atypical visas since 15 March 2023, and has yet to receive a decision on any of these applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29708/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (20 Jun 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 701. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug, sativex, will be made available for people diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29595/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Projects (22 Jun 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the office of the Ceann Comhairle for facilitating Deputy Harkin, who was unavailable. The Deputy is seeking from the Minister for Transport an update on the provision of funding for the progression of the N17 Collooney to Claremorris upgrade for the years 2024 to 2028, inclusive.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Projects (22 Jun 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Deputy Harkin, along with other Deputies in the area, has been to the forefront of this. I was in County Sligo for the launch with great fanfare of Project Ireland 2040, as were other Deputies. The upgrade of the N17 road was part of it. Small amounts of money are all that are needed for the coming years. The N17 is a major road. We are talking about having a greenway from Sligo to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Projects (22 Jun 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the provision of funding. I ask the Minister of State to prioritise this project later in the year. For all of its sins, during the time of the boom, a lot of great work was done in road infrastructure around the country. A few roads in that region, including in Letterkenny and the N17 to Galway, need development. The statistics show roads in the region are not getting the same...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee. Earlier they spoke about exports and imports. How much vegetable produce in exported from Ireland, leaving aside mushrooms? Where does it go?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Nothing is exported.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: With regard to the peat situation the witnesses have outlined the need but there seems to be no solution for the mushroom sector. What about other horticulture sectors that require peat? How are they fixed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: How does coir work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is it more expensive?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Mr. McCormack spoke about the number of people who have left the industry. There have been meetings with the Minister. Are there forward plans? We should have learned lessons with regard to the war in Ukraine and food security. Does the Department have a plan to encourage people to get into the industry? Does it have a pathway forward whereby we will avoid realising someday that, having...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is it a big problem in every sector? I am involved in plant hire and there is a shortage of labour. What is the solution? Is it streamlined permits?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What is the solution? It is affecting almost everything in rural Ireland at present, whether it is people making silage with tractors or people growing strawberries. Even hire shops for building in Dublin cannot get mechanics. They are looking to see whether the Minister of State, Deputy Niall Collins, can get permits for South Africans or whoever.