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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electric Vehicles: Discussion with Irish EV Owners Association (18 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The authorities in Dublin city are not being that helpful.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electric Vehicles: Discussion with Irish EV Owners Association (18 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What speeds are they capable of doing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electric Vehicles: Discussion with Irish EV Owners Association (18 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electric Vehicles: Discussion with Irish EV Owners Association (18 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: That is good.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electric Vehicles: Discussion with Irish EV Owners Association (18 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Does Mr. Séguin have to charge the car a few times on the way to Cork?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electric Vehicles: Discussion with Irish EV Owners Association (18 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: How long does that take?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electric Vehicles: Discussion with Irish EV Owners Association (18 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: One would need to lay out the journey well in advance.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electric Vehicles: Discussion with Irish EV Owners Association (18 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Putting on wipers and heaters would cut range as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electric Vehicles: Discussion with Irish EV Owners Association (18 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is the witnesses serious?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electric Vehicles: Discussion with Irish EV Owners Association (18 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I do not know if this is within our remit. Mayo County Council would be pretty open to putting a fast charger in place or to trying to accommodate one.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electric Vehicles: Discussion with Irish EV Owners Association (18 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The simple reason is the west and the midlands were taken out of TEN-T. We have from Limerick to Dublin to Newry and from Cork to Dublin to Newry.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Hear, hear.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: When will the Government stand up to the EU?
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: When will we stand up to the EU? The Dutch can do it.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: It will tell us how high to jump.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I agree with the other speakers that the nurses' dispute must be sorted urgently. This morning I spoke to a gentleman in Roscommon whose sister is living in Tipperary. He said she was to be brought in for a badly needed hip operation one month ago but that, after she had prepared herself, she got word at the last minute that she should stay at home. I got involved in the case and was...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: She landed at the hospital and was told to go home. That is some way to treat our elderly.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The number of patients on trolleys is increasing right around the country, but since 2012 there has been a 33% increase in the number of administrative staff in the health service. There are young children who need spinal operations but whose parents are told by letter that there is a 15-month waiting list, although their consultants say they need the operation sooner. When a Deputy...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: "Sorry" does not work any more in this country. People are fed up of waiting. Since 2012, 33% more administrative staff have been brought into the health service. I know from talking to people that when there was a problem in a place in Mayo, the Taoiseach's county, another layer of staff was put in to ensure management was always kept away from the hits of the media or whatever. This...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Will the Taoiseach get involved? There is a crisis. It is not just a niggardly thing that will go by the way. It is a crisis. I am asking the Taoiseach whether he will get involved with the Minister. If the system is not improving, a Minister must stand up and say he cannot solve the problem-----