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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 48. To ask the Minister for Finance to consider reducing the VAT rate for natively produced renewable fuel, such as firewood, in line with the decision to apply a lower rate of VAT on gas and electricity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40430/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 49. To ask the Minister for Finance to consider extending the reduction in VAT to apply to all appliances using renewable fuel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40431/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pension Provisions (10 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 123. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 135 of 11 July 2023, if a decision is close to being reached as to the increase for pensions and deferred pensions for members of the An Post superannuation scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40695/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (16 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Or a nose. I thank the Minister and the officials for coming before the committee. Politicians get a lot of emails and I have a question for the Minister because I cannot fathom it. In all the various horse sectors, everyone seems to be falling out with everyone else and everyone is bringing each other to court. What is wrong in an industry that gets so much money? Are the procedures...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (16 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is in all of the sectors. In Connemara at present it is nearly impossible to get books. We are constantly getting emails about different problems in different parts. The Minister knows my views on the books. In fairness, the Department is able to hammer out 1.5 million or more cattle books without a bit of bother, efficiently and quickly. I understand DNA must be checked but I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (16 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (16 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (16 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: With regard to thoroughbreds, there were debacles during the year about new rules being imposed at the racetracks. Has this been resolved?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (16 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is about access for ambulances. I understand that one or two courses could not hold races because of a new rule brought in. I am not sure whether it involves two ambulances being able to access at all times. There was some stand-off on that. Was it resolved?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (16 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: That is all right. How does the Department monitor value for money?

VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — inflationary pressures over the past number of years have significantly exacerbated financial pressures on both consumers and businesses, particularly within the food service sector, which has been severely impacted by the spiralling costs of energy, food produce, insurance, labour and supply chain disruptions; —...

VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank Deputy Harkin. I thank the Minister of State and everyone else who spoke on the motion. I thank the Minister of State for his engagement on this. Everybody is entitled to their opinion and I acknowledge that Deputy Nash of the Labour Party has an amendment in. For people who go into business in their local areas, there seems to be a disconnect from what I would call the people in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (16 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Obviously we are all aware of some of the recent television programmes broadcast about the greyhound industry. Is the Department following up to ensure the welfare of dogs?

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Public Inquiries (15 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 88. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the Covid inquiry and its terms of reference; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41129/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (15 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 93. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if RTÉ received funding from the Global Ireland Media Challenge Fund to boost media coverage of major geo-political developments and the changing nature of Ireland’s role in the world; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40998/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (15 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made in respect of an application for special needs school transport for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41292/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (22 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Five weeks ago tomorrow, I brought up a particularly tough case during Leaders' Questions that has been going on for the past two to three years concerning young Seán. He is eating the couch at the moment, as well as opening the fridge, breaking all the delf, and going out and breaking the windows of cars. Young Seán has still been left the same way. In fairness to the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (22 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: All we have got at the end of it is a father who is desperate, and siblings who have been assaulted, and the same situation. If we go to the other side of it, a neighbour of mine, a lady in her late 70s, was to get a bed in Beaumont Hospital. Her family took a week off on five occasions, took an apartment in Dublin at a cost to themselves, and took time off work to be with their mother....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (22 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I have acknowledged the person in the Taoiseach's office who has been in constant contact. I am not having a go at anybody here. I am having a go at the fact it has been meeting after meeting since then. There will be another meeting next Thursday. There has been plenty of talk, but there is only one thing the HSE has said, which is that it has no resolution. Imagine that. Those are the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The Taoiseach might read the Oxford report.