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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Aug 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Does the Minister of State not think there is a HR issue? Have inspectors lost confidence in senior management?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Aug 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Every Deputy backed the Minister of State when she brought in legislation that was to be the silver bullet to solve everything at the back end of last year. How would she gauge that? Would she give herself until Christmas to have this turned around? If she has not turned it around by then, will she review her position and ask whether she has got into an area that she needs to hand over to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Aug 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am putting on record that I am hearing from the Department that its intention is to get Coillte licences out fast in order to tick that box. That does not solve the problem with afforestation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Aug 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: How is the Department going to solve the planting situation? Does the Minister of State realise the situation with planting in Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Aug 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the Minister of State for her response. I will let somebody else in but, first, I want to say that forestry is a dirty word in farming communities because they have been waiting on the Department for three or four years. They were willing to engage in forestry but they were let down badly. Contractors have also been let down. We have nurseries in danger of closing because this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (27 Jul 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1437. To ask the Minister for Health the work being carried to secure funding at source for medication produced by a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33286/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (27 Jul 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1438. To ask the Minister for Health when medication produced by a company (details supplied) will be funded at source; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33287/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (27 Jul 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1903. 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. [35803/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (27 Jul 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1904. To ask the Minister for Health when the six epilepsy nurse specialists will be recruited for the pregnancy prevention programme to help ensure pregnant women are fully informed of the side effects of sodium valproate given that to date only two of these nurses have been put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35804/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (27 Jul 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1905. To ask the Minister for Health when the stakeholder group consisting of representatives of those involved in the treatment of women with epilepsy will be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35805/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care (27 Jul 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1906. To ask the Minister for Health when the community operations programme will commence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35806/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 2777. To ask the Minister for Health if post-mortem tests were carried out on each person that died with Covid-19 in order to confirm the cause of death as being due to Covid-19 in view of comments made (details supplied); if so, the number of tests that were carried out; the results of same from March 2020 to June 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39108/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (27 Jul 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 2943. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the budget for aids and appliances for persons with disabilities for each of the years 2018, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39609/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (27 Jul 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 2944. 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. [39610/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (27 Jul 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 2945. 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. [39611/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (27 Jul 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 2946. 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. [39612/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (27 Jul 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 2947. 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. [39613/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (27 Jul 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 2948. To ask the Minister for Health if his office 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. [39614/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Alleged Issues in the Horse Racing Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Jul 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the Chairman. At long last, I got in. I thank the witnesses. I concur with Deputy Kehoe that we need to go back to last night's programme. I am not going down that road now. Let me go back to the previous questions Deputy Kehoe asked in relation to authorised officers. Am I correct in saying that the Department handled all this years ago and then there was a change that it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Alleged Issues in the Horse Racing Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Jul 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes.