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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (15 Sep 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 638. To ask the Minister for Health if the cost of PPE has been included in the budget for appliances for persons with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43484/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (15 Sep 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 641. To ask the Minister for Health if the inclusion of PPE in the budget for appliances for persons with disabilities will result in patients receiving inferior care or quality of prosthetic limbs, surgical footwear, hearing aid and personal emergency response systems; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43489/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (15 Sep 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 639. To ask the Minister for Health the average cost of the various personal emergency response systems, surgical footwear, hearing aids and prosthetic limbs provided by the HSE, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43487/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (15 Sep 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 640. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the costs incurred with the provision and care of persons with hearing aids, surgical footwear prosthetic limbs in 2018, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43488/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (15 Sep 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 642. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered having the budget for the provision of prosthetic limbs separate to the overall budget for appliances for persons with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43486/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Decision-Making (15 Sep 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 645. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the director of decision support services to submit the code of practice in respect of Part 8 of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 to him for approval and publication in view of the inordinate delay since December 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43495/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the different farming organisations. I ask the witnesses to take note of my questions because I have a few lined up and want their thoughts. With the new proposals on the litreage - the 92, 102 and 82 - is there a fear in the dairy sector and among the farming organisations that the cow producing less milk and not producing a good calf, namely, the Jersey cow, would be used...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: My question is, does anyone bring slurry 100 miles? We must have a bit of common sense about this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am asking does anyone bring it 100 miles. It is a straight question. In fairness, that is what I am referring to.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Sep 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the witnesses. I agree with the Chairman on the number of licences and funnily enough in the last two weeks it has increased again but we must take what is said to us verbatim. I read Mr. Gleeson's opening statement and listened to him. He referred to the Sweetman case in 2018. Mr. Gleeson is probably aware that at the biogeographical conference in 2004, Ireland submitted 832...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Sep 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I have not got much time and will be pretty blunt with Mr. Gleeson. We were nobody down in the middle of countryside as turf cutters, yet we knew about appropriate assessment. We knew about screening out. Mr. Gleeson and his Department headed up in 2012 and it was not being done and the procedures were not put in place. This has landed us with somebody else bringing it to court. I am not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Sep 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Sep 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The reality of it is there was a 15 km buffer zone in 2011 and 2012. I dealt with it at the time. Everybody knew about it at the time and unfortunately it was not dealt with. Let us move on to the next question. The monthly target for the licences that are with the ecology section has not been reached. Mr. Gleeson has talked about the number of staff he has got in. It has not been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Sep 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The question I am asking Mr. Gleeson involves 34 and 12 licences. That is 46 licences. The Department has 27 ecologists. That is fewer than one ecologist to do one of them in a month for two months. What is wrong there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Sep 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Will Mr. Hayes clarify one point before he says too much? The Minister of State was before us in June and made us aware that there would be one month of a delay, which every Deputy here agreed to, and that was the month of July. I am looking at July and August. We were told that four weeks would be the total of the delay but the delay seemed to go on and on. What is the reason for it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Sep 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Has Mr. Gleeson received - the Minister of State is supposed to have received it - a scathing letter from one of the committees in Project Woodland about how frustrated the members are getting? Are there, as we hear, people ready to resign from the Project Woodland committee system?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Sep 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: In 2017, there were 1,409 applications for planting. This year to date, there are 330. What does that tell Mr. Gleeson?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Sep 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Given what has gone on, would Mr. Gleeson blame them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Sep 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Would Mr. Gleeson blame them, I am asking, with the way the licences were held up?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Sep 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Agreed. For example, I know a guy who has 50 acres. He put an application in. It was in two and a half years. He was sitting there waiting. All that land is now ploughed. It is now drained. It now will have 30 years of slurry. It will have 30 years of fertiliser and 30 years of cattle, with the help of God, for that person, all because of what went on within in the licensing system....