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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 2179. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultants appointed specifically to Portiuncula university hospital maternity unit since the 2018 report (details supplied); if this has been the recommended level for safe maternity care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44964/25]
- Migration: Statements (18 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this matter. First, I wish the Minister the best of luck.
- Migration: Statements (18 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I do not think I was in front of you before this so the best of luck. The reality of immigration is that, at the moment in Ireland, we are building 30,000 houses. There is a huge shortage of houses. Look at the numbers of people who are coming in both through legal and illegal immigration. We are scratching our heads when people want to come to work. Let us bear in mind, we need people...
- Migration: Statements (18 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: We need to make sure that we tighten this. The court system needs to be sped up to make decisions-----
- Migration: Statements (18 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: -----and not hold things up for four or five years on people who are coming here about whom we know nothing.
- Antisocial Behaviour: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion and commend Deputy Gogarty and his staff on putting it together. It often baffles me that when we had 9,000 and 10,000 gardaí on the streets or in the total force, there were local Garda stations. If anyone said they were not doing much, they knew everything that was going on in the area. They did not have to be taking out the...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (17 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 977. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the level of CAP funding received by his Department on its lands; and if he will provide a detailed list and funding amount for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48940/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (17 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 978. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide details of the level of CAP funding received by farmers only, Coillte, investment fund operators, not-for-profit organisations and for afforestation licence applications, in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49000/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (17 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 1323. To ask the Minister for Health when the drug givinostat will be available through the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48901/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Environmental Schemes (18 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 311. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a premium will be payable to persons who as a result of storm Éowyn have to replant their forest under the new scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49341/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: State Bodies (29 Jul 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 2154. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the level of capital funding received by State bodies and semi-State bodies including Teagasc and non-Governmental organizations; if he will provide a detailed list and funding amount for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40985/25]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Nitrates Derogation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: For Dr. Ó hUallacháin, the cleanest river in Ireland is the Islands River. About ten diggers cleaned it 12 to 14 years ago. It is one of the best rivers in Ireland. To anyone who talks rubbish about cleaning rivers and says that things will not come back, I say that rivers were cleaned for years and all the different things came back. This myth has to be got rid of. If you do...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Nitrates Derogation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What does that mean?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Nitrates Derogation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Will it help us? If an ordinary farmer has 100 cows and RENURE is coming in, how will it help?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Nitrates Derogation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Would it have to be animal manure?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Nitrates Derogation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Right.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Nitrates Derogation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Who keeps track of the overall thing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Nitrates Derogation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Could I ask one question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Nitrates Derogation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Every river recovers. That is what I am saying. I saw it happen with the Islands River. Anyone can look it up under the EPA and what it is. One question I have----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Nitrates Derogation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: It is about exported slurry.