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Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (28 Jul 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I join colleagues in wishing the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, the best of luck in her new role. I have dealt with her in several different Departments and she has a job of work to do in her new portfolio, first of all in the area of social protection. It is not the Minister's fault and no reflection on her, but I am saddened that rural affairs will not have a separate, independent...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU Budget Contribution (28 Jul 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 227. To ask the Minister for Finance if the net contribution made by Ireland to the EU recovery fund is €15.7 billion in accordance with a document in circulation at the European Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18372/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU Budget Contribution (28 Jul 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 228. To ask the Minister for Finance the net contribution of Ireland to the EU budget in 2019 and 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18373/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU Budgets (28 Jul 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 229. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether entering deeper into the EU debt is good for the financial health and sovereignty of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18374/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (22 Jul 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 212. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Covid-19 tests being carried out daily by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17536/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (22 Jul 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 213. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Covid-19 tests each facility can carry out daily by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17537/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (22 Jul 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 214. To ask the Minister for Health the capacity of laboratories that carry out the Covid-19 analysis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17538/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (21 Jul 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 225. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the action taken in the past seven days to reduce the current water levels on the River Shannon at Clonown South, Athlone, County Westmeath; if none, the action which will be taken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16751/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (21 Jul 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 618. To ask the Minister for Health if the new Government in respect of the legislation brought forward by the last Government to the fair deal system in June 2019 will proceed and implement legislation to extend the three-year cap for farmers; when he expects this to be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16547/20]

National Oil Reserves Agency (Amendment) and Provision of Central Treasury Services Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Jul 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: One thing the Minister needs to be mindful of when we speak about emissions and sequestration is that at present, as I told him during the talks on Government formation, we have a target in this country of 7,000 ha of forestry per year. I spoke to two sawmill owners yesterday. Next October, they will be out of timber. They are putting plans in place to bring timber in from Latvia. That is...

National Oil Reserves Agency (Amendment) and Provision of Central Treasury Services Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Jul 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes, one other thing is all I have-----

National Oil Reserves Agency (Amendment) and Provision of Central Treasury Services Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Jul 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The last point is on the carbon tax for rural Ireland. It is indiscriminate. Bring it in on aeroplanes. People in rural Ireland can decide whether they go to Majorca or Kerry for holidays but they have no decision when they have to go 30, 40 or 50 miles from A to B to work. Let us not discriminate against one part of Ireland just because there are buses and transport in other places.

National Oil Reserves Agency (Amendment) and Provision of Central Treasury Services Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Jul 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I wish the Minister the best of luck in his new portfolio and concur with the sentiments expressed earlier on land use and on the amendments. I refer to much of the land in the west, in particular. In my opinion the farmers are carbon neutral. They have cattle on two or three acres or a cow with two or three acres to herself for the simple reason that the quality of the land is not as...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Jul 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Following up on that, up to ten people can meet in a house. Anyone who had a bull's iota about rural Ireland would know that in most pubs in rural Ireland during the week there might not be four or five people. To stop them from opening is a hammer blow. The Government should look at this again because these pubs need to get up and running not only for the survival of the businesses...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jul 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 83. To ask the Minister for Finance the funds that can be borrowed from Europe from the Covid-19 fund to bridge the deficit due to the Covid-19 crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16467/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports (16 Jul 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 149. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason, when a farmer carries out an annual TB herd test, the results do not make the animals tested eligible for live export for a period of 12 months; the reason the current period is capped at 31 days; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16378/20]

Nomination of Member of Government: Motion (15 Jul 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I was shocked and saddened by the Taoiseach's actions yesterday evening in regard to Deputy Cowen. I think it was a trial by media. I wish Deputy Calleary the very best of luck. The ministerial map is at least being rebalanced a small bit for the west of Ireland. I wish the Minister of State, Deputy Chambers, whose mother hails from Castlerea, the best of luck, and likewise the incoming...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (14 Jul 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 338. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will liaise with Leitrim County Council to put a fund in place to help stabilise the situation in Drumkeerin in the wake of the recent landslide; if additional funding will be allocated to the council to reinstate the roads affected by the landslide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15902/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hardship Grant Scheme (14 Jul 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 844. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to visit the Drumkeeran area in County Leitrim to witness the damage the recent landslide has caused to farmland; if the affected farmers will be given a waiver to their basic payment scheme applications for three to five years in order to reinstate the farmland in view of the fact it was an act of God; if a fund will be...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Areas of Conservation (8 Jul 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I mean no disrespect to the Minister of State, but we were expecting this matter to be dealt with by the Minister of State with responsibility for the OPW. I understand that the mountain is a designated special area of conservation, but there is a decision to be made. Are we going to sit and watch a bridge collapse - in fairness, bridges are neither the portfolio nor the responsibility of...