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Home Heating Fuels: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: He needs to study up on this and work with people. He can get to where he wants to go but he must bring the people with him, not have them kicking against him.

Home Heating Fuels: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the motion. I thank Deputy Kerrane and Sinn Féin for bringing it forward. One issue that must be recognised, as mentioned by Deputy Martin Kenny, is that in the case of many social housing developments, including, for example, in Tuam and in different parts of counties Galway and Roscommon, ranges and stoves are installed and people are getting...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Medical Aids and Appliances (26 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 286. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the €75 support for persons with long-term medical incontinence to help meet the average annual cost of disposing of medical incontinence products will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20240/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (26 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1439. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to recruit additional staff in the new children’s disability network teams primarily in CDNT9 based in County Roscommon to offer children within the ASD services the occupational therapy and speech and language therapy supports they have been left without for over two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19577/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1929. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the dates officials of his Department contacted the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage or met with officials of the Department in connection with removing the requirement for planning permission when converting dead, dying and rotting ash plantations to conifer species; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1930. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the projected output of forestry licences for 2022 matches the recommendations by working group one of project woodland which were issued to the project board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21045/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1931. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the projections in the COFORD roundwood forecast 2021 – 2040 for private sector availability and Coillte availability in each of the years 2022, 2023 and 2024; if he will specify the percentage of private sector availability of the total availability in each of the years 2022, 2023 and 2024; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (26 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1932. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Assistant Secretary with responsibility for forestry will also have responsibility for the AECM and eco schemes in the next CAP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21047/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for coming in. I will ask few quick-fire questions. Would they accept that people who own land have a right to decide what to do with it? They referred to Leitrim County Council. I know of Galway County Council. I am sure the witnesses are aware of it but you can put a set-back distance in a county development plan, as is being done in Galway at the moment, in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I have seen it done in certain areas. I know the witnesses' counties very well. There is a concern where there is a house and a forest on either side of it. God forbid if a fire ever broke out, but there is a huge risk. There is no point in saying there is not. There is a situation in Leitrim where some people - and it is hard to blame them in some cases - were farming fairly marginal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: In terms of what happened in Leitrim down through the years - Mr. Smyth is right about the big corporates - it was one of the counties where you would swear there was a vendetta to plant as much of it as could be planted. It has more than its share, and I would be the first to say that. It is about how you resolve the issues or about how you strike a balance in each county. We need a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I have another two brief questions. When one looks at objections to felling licences in Leitrim and other places, although a lot of them came from that neck of the woods, the harm is done at that stage given that the trees are grown. Why do the witnesses think there were so many objections to the felling of the timber? The timber was grown. If it is grown, it is end timber. That is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: First, I thank the witnesses for coming in. The representatives from SEEFA talked about the problems that are going on and the elephant in the room. They want significant change. In a few words, what do they call the likes of the elephant in the room or the problems? What is the change that they want? I would like to get an answer and just do quick-fire with them for a few minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I do not buy the European Court of Justice ruling.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I want that to be clear. I dealt with the habitats directive in 2010 and 2011 and, I am sure, the Department dealt with it before that.