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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Okay. I will turn to Mr. Fagan. I will be clear on this, in case people are out there looking in and get their hopes up. Generally applicants for sports capital grants have to be a not-for-profit community group or a club or whatever. There is no point in someone out there thinking he or she might get a sports capital grant, because the terms and conditions would have to change and we...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 307. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when tickets for school transport will issue for two siblings (details supplied) who applied and paid for their annual school bus tickets; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40014/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 310. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when tickets for school transport will issue to a child (details supplied) who has no other means of getting to school, and who applied and paid for their annual school bus tickets; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40029/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when tickets for school transport will issue for two siblings, (details supplied), who applied and paid for their annual school bus tickets and have no other means of getting to school, with the bus passing their gate twice daily; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40030/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 313. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when tickets for school transport will issue to a child (details supplied) who is now entering 5th year in secondary school, has always had a ticket and who applied and paid for their annual school bus tickets; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40051/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether two siblings (details supplied) can travel together on wheelchair-accessible transport, where one child has been approved this service and the other gets the regular Bus Éireann school bus and cannot be at the bus stop at the allocated time due to their parent assisting with the other child being put into the wheelchair-accessible...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 316. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a bus will be made available for students on route F661, who have already been allocated tickets and are attending a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40058/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 318. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when tickets for school transport will issue to a child, (details supplied) who has no other means of getting to school, and who applied and paid for their annual school bus tickets; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40064/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 353. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when tickets for school transport will issue to four families (details supplied) who have no other means of getting to school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40317/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 763. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine If he will provide actual details of European forestry legislation relating to planting on peat; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39998/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 764. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the qualified authority that advised his Department on peat definition, which will be used to exclude land from commercial afforestation activity in the forestry programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40000/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 765. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will carry out in-person training to prepare foresters for the new programme specifically regarding organo-mineral soil with a peat depth or equal to 30cm; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40001/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 766. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will carry out in-person training to prepare foresters for the new programme specifically on how to identify modified fen of modified cutaway raised bog; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40002/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 761. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total hectares of high nature value grassland now excluded from the forestry programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39996/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 762. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine who was the qualified authority who decided the definition and area of high nature value grasslands to be removed form afforestation activity in the forestry programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39997/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (21 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 256. To ask the Minister for Health if the Sacred Heart Hospital, Roscommon can now return to the admission of new patients in view of the closure of the church in the facility which has been the reason for no intake of patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40814/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (21 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 257. To ask the Minister for Health when will works commence on the upgrading of facilities at the Sacred Heart Hospital, Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40815/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for coming in. On the Ukraine fund for businesses that have been affected, what is the budget and how much of it has been spent?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: A lot of companies were six months dealing with Enterprise Ireland and no go-ahead was given. Is that correct? They could not put in an application.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thought it was March when the real go-ahead was given for this.