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- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food, and the Marine (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Michael Fitzmaurice: I was looking at administration costs. Is the increase due to new schemes coming in?
- National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The Minister of State might be able to answer this. Why are people who put in their postcode and were told they would have broadband in 2021 or 2022 now getting information back that it could be 2025 or 2026?
- National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I gave them to the Department.
- National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I will give the Minister of State a little insight because I know the game fairly well. I know many of the contractors - not the main contractors or the subcontractor - but a lot of the ordinary hedge-cutting contractors that do the different types of work related to broadband provision. I can tell the Minister of State what is going on out there because seemingly people do not realise it....
- National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I was watching the Minister of State on the screen earlier on when he talked about doing more connections. Am I not correct in saying that, under this contract, if Eir goes into the intervention area for somebody so they get high-speed broadband, then NBI or David McCourt is paid for it? Is that not correct?
- National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: It is a question. He might answer it.
- National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The Minister of State is saying to me that if Eir went in and did 50 houses where they have the high-speed broadband, McCourt does not get any money. Is he saying that to me-----
- National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: -----because I have read the contract.
- National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Therefore it can get paid.
- National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Who would sign-----
- National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Who would sign a contract like that?
- National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Who would sign a contract like that, where even if I do not do the work I am going to be paid? What civil servant would allow a Minister to sign something like that?
- National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: No, I do not. I am going to move on because I have only five minutes.
- National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: All right. The Minister of State might be able to answer-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The EU has a proposal to bring gas and nuclear in under the green banner. I do not have a problem with it where gas is concerned. However, the fact is we are relying on gas coming from Russia and it is like a tap at the moment, in that it can be turned up or down at any stage. US President Joe Biden announced yesterday they were going to do all in their power to ensure Europe was going to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: It might be worthwhile for the Tánaiste to go back to his Department to look at the amount of gas we are getting from the UK or from Scotland for the simple reason that England, if you read the statistics and the facts, is in a slight bit of bother in relation to it, even though it has its own. On the second part of the Tánaiste's answer, yes, there were social welfare increases...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (27 Jan 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 95. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of Defence Forces personnel that have been stationed at Custume Barracks, Athlone over the past five years; if there are plans to upgrade its status in the next few years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4169/22]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (27 Jan 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I ask the Minister for Defence the number of Defence Forces personnel that have been stationed in Custume Barracks over the past number of years and if there are plans to upgrade it. I say that in light of the development yesterday. I have heard the Minister’s comments today, in fairness, where he said he is looking at this in respect of Cathal Brugha Barracks. If changes will be...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (27 Jan 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the Minister for his answer, although I think it is rather regrettable. I do not buy into it that "for operational reasons" they cannot tell us the number of Defence Forces personnel in any part of the country. It is disgraceful and whoever wrote that answer should be ashamed of themselves. Public representatives are not told, no matter where they are from, whether it is Cathal...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (27 Jan 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: If the Minister can have a look at it, I would welcome that. It will not be to the detriment of our country or our line of defence if Members know how many different Defence Forces personnel are in each part of the country. We are given a number right around the country. That would have been given previously. It would be interesting to see over the past number of years whether those...