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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Reviews (24 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 297. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on the review requested of an invalidity pension by a person (details supplied) who supplied further medical evidence in August 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43853/19]

Public Ownership of the National Broadband Network: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Since 2011 we have been hearing about broadband, seen programmes on television and still it is no different. The Government has failed the people of rural Ireland to put it very bluntly. Now it must do one thing or the other, for the simple reason that people are fed up hearing about broadband and I commend Deputy Sherlock and the Labour Party on bringing this motion in. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Meat Processing Plant Inspections (23 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 167. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the factories which have been found by departmental inspectors to be in breach of regulations in the grading and trimming of beef and sheep carcasses to date in 2019; the offences discovered in each factory; the penalties or warnings issued to the offending factory; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43696/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The witnesses need to put several matters into context. Dr. Florence Renou-Wilson talked about blanket bogs. She has to get one thing clear in her head. It is private property. Has she a right to go on to somebody’s private property? In fairness to Mr. Brian Lucas and the NPWS. they have drawn up a management plan on re-wetting. When people heard about re-wetting, they thought...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: We have gone into another world now about the 53 raised bog SACs and how we will save Ireland with them. That is not what the habitats directive was about. It is not helpful when the likes of the NPWS are trying to resolve issues on the 53 raised bog SACs. The National Parks and Wildlife Services, NPWS, has called them the best bogs in the country. When one has a bog that is functioning...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: My understanding is that 19 machines for 240 days is the value of work of €5 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Bord na Móna will need to get many machines if it is going to do this work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: How many tonnes per acre?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I was at a conference in Dublin Castle and a man from Holland, I believe, said it was 40 tonnes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes, I am asking about an annual figure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am asking about an average annual figure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am aware that forestry can deliver 10 tonnes per acre.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is Dr. Renou-Wilson telling me that peat delivers less sequestration?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What about my question on the middle of the bog, which Dr. Renou-Wilson said would be drained, when I asked about Ray Flynn and RPS?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: So it needs to be clarified to people that not every bog is affected by cutting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Based on what I have heard from the scientists I met, am I also correct in saying that where turf cutting takes place for domestic purposes on what we call the cut-away bog, that its regeneration is much faster than on high bog?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am not talking about peat, which is in the air, but is it not the case that following domestic turf cutting, where it has been tested by scientists the regeneration of bog has been phenomenal?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: No, there was still cutting at the face bank but out on the-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: One thing needs to be made clear by the committee. The National Parks and Wildlife Service is trying to resolve an issue in conjunction with ecologists and scientists and they are trying to find alternatives for people to make sure that those 53 bogs are as far as possible preserved and that we can get re-wetting done. We must also ensure that minerals from land do not come in. We must...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Closures (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 276. To ask the Minister for Health the reason beds in the Sacred Heart Hospital, County Roscommon are being left empty at present despite the general bed crisis nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42938/19]