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- 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]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation Provision (22 Oct 2019)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 277. To ask the Minister for Health the reason patients in acute services are reportedly taken directly to private nursing homes until their fair deal application process is complete; the reason the transitional funding reportedly available to private nursing homes is not open to HSE nursing homes, such as the Sacred Heart Hospital, County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (22 Oct 2019)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 278. To ask the Minister for Health the reason no progress has been made to date on the promised 50 bed extension to the Sacred Heart Hospital, County Roscommon; if a design team has been appointed; if construction will commence in 2020; if it will be finished by 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42940/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Savings (22 Oct 2019)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 318. To ask the Minister for Health when additional funding will be put in place to address the issue of staff shortages within the home support coordinators across the HSE community west for the past four months (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43117/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Civil Service Code of Conduct (22 Oct 2019)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 452. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number and grade of staff within his Department who have been sanctioned for breaching section 14 of the Civil Service code of conduct; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43362/19]