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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Nov 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 197. To ask the Minister for Health the number of PCR tests that have been reported in August, September, October and to date in November 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56222/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Agriculture: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What are the proposals on the rewetting of this 80,000 ha? Is it a voluntary scheme that will come in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Agriculture: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Say Deputies Cahill, Carthy, Paul Daly or I as farmers have 50 acres of land and 50 cows or 200 ewes or whatever. Will there come a day and, in Mr. Callanan's opinion, when will it come that a farmer will be looked at individually and told the cows are allegedly putting up 100 tonnes or whatever of carbon and he or she has to have X, Y or Z to mitigate that? Will that come or will we stay...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Agriculture: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: If Dr. Lanigan is talking about that, I will throw in something else. We looked at mixed species grasses. Is there a benefit to them in the opinion of the witnesses?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Agriculture: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is that done with lime?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Agriculture: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Mr. Kennedy is saying LiDAR can be used on trees but the other method is being done manually on soil sampling right around the country.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tax Collection (16 Nov 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 295. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when new maps of the approximate 9,000ha of land which will fall under the scope of the new zoned land tax will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56015/21]

Forestry Sector: Motion (11 Nov 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank Deputy Cairns for sharing time. In 2015, 852 farmers planted. In 2020, that figure is approximately 100. That will drive home to the Minister of State the message in respect of what has gone on. A year ago, all present supported her in the context of the legislation that was being brought in. When she came before the committee, there was a backlog of 5,000 licences. She spoke...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (9 Nov 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 125. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reduce the taxes on fuel and home heating oil similar to other EU countries (details supplied) to ease the pressure on vulnerable persons and hauliers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53709/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (9 Nov 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 244. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason for the refusal of insurance companies to insure hunt and harrier packs resulting in closure for these businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54126/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 Nov 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 622. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 643 of 21 September 2021, if the HSE has sourced funding for the remaining four advanced nurse practitioners as part of the 2022 new service development process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54483/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 Nov 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 623. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects an inquiry will be established to investigate the historical licensing and prescribing of sodium valproate to pregnant women without them being made aware of the impacts it could have on their child; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54484/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff (9 Nov 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 696. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 296 of 20 October 2021, the details of the metrics contained in the performance management and development system; the outputs from this project management and development system for all the staff of the Forest Service of his Department in each of the years 2018 to 2020; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (9 Nov 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 697. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown of the backlog in forestry licences, that is, the number of licence applications in the system at the end of August 2021 that were classed as private as compared with those submitted in the name of Coillte (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53976/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (9 Nov 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 722. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a specific import licence is required in cases in which a person or body wishes to import fertiliser from a third country, that is, Russia for resale in Ireland; the regulations that must be followed; if other criteria must be met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54522/21]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Haulage Industry (4 Nov 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 86. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will take steps to ease the pressure on struggling haulage companies, hauliers and motorists in view of the increasing costs of diesel and petrol; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53953/21]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Haulage Industry (4 Nov 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Will the Minister of State take measures with regard to the struggling haulage companies and examine what reliefs can be given? I ask this in the context of the Government taking €1 of every €1.70 per litre of diesel. Compared with 16 or 17 months ago, what the Government takes now on every litre of diesel is 40 cent higher. There is room, therefore, for the Government to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Haulage Industry (4 Nov 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: With due respect to the Minister of State, whatever civil servant wrote her contribution does not know much about the transport industry. There are no articulated lorries in Ireland or Europe at the moment that run on electricity. Whoever wrote the contribution needs to go back and read up on the matter. As Deputy O'Rourke pointed out, gas is now more expensive than diesel. It costs...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Haulage Industry (4 Nov 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome what the Minister of State said about research being carried out and I understand all that, but the crisis is now. I will be the first to admit there is a grant to help people move from diesel to gas, but the cost of doing so is probably €17,000 or €18,000. They will pay more than if they had kept diesel. That is a fact. I reiterate there is a difference of 40...

Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Nov 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I commend Deputy Harkin on bringing this Bill forward. I know she has put an enormous amount of work into it. Credit unions are the life and soul of many rural areas from which Bank of Ireland and some of the other banks have absconded, including rural areas and small towns such as Glenamaddy, where once there were two banks and where St. Jarlath's Credit Union, which was known as...