Results 501-520 of 7,773 for speaker:Michael Fitzmaurice

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (11 Jun 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 680.To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to urgently remediate the systemic problem at the cancer care centre at University Hospital Galway, where patients are regularly experiencing delays in cancer treatment, to fulfil its mandate to operate as a centre of excellence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24639/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (11 Jun 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 732.To ask the Minister for Health when he intends to conduct a review in respect of the extra funding that is required for private nursing homes to keep their doors open with many closing as they struggle with business costs,; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24908/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (11 Jun 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 848.To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding drawn down for the complex needs homecare package in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25353/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (11 Jun 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 849.To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of funding drawn down in 2023 for the complex needs homecare package, out of the overall budget for the complex needs homecare package; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25354/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (11 Jun 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 850.To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding used in County Galway in 2023 for the complex needs homecare package; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25355/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I have been listening to the speakers and I will probably go a different way than that of the other questions that were asked. I was listening to all of the answers and there is a lot of experience and knowledge about the whole dairy industry. In the witnesses' view, is the model being used accepted?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Do the witnesses buy into the modelling that is being used of X amount of cattle in a radius of whatever mileage or kilometres, plus there is X amount of sewage treatment in plants and there is X amount of tillage and there is X amount of this, that and the other? Do the witnesses buy into that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am not saying or questioning that the witnesses agree to the arbiter. The question I am asking is about the modelling that is being used.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: My problem is the validation whereby X number of rivers are done on a regular basis and Y number of rivers are done maybe once a year and there is a fair variance between what is happening there. I do not know whether people were watching our committee meeting a few weeks back when we had people from the Department of the environment in. I asked the witnesses whether they were comfortable...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I presume our witnesses are all in support of anaerobic digesters if it was economically viable to pellet the likes of the digester?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I have one final question. Everyone is looking at the nitrogen part here. There is huge swathe of our country in trouble with phosphorus apparently. The reality is, I intend to keep following it for as long as I can, that a huge amount of sewage treatment plants are not functioning in this country and it is not the fault of the people living in those towns who do not have the treatment...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Look at the current map of Ireland and at this famous map that has landed. I come from an area where there are no dairy cows and the most pristine river in Ireland is in it, but this new map has gone over it as if it is a black spot.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes, it is because of phosphorus. The way they are doing things is very unjust, but do the witnesses believe the phosphorus can be solved relatively simply?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is it a problem for the witnesses or for farmers that when looking at the data, it is changing? At one time, in fairness to the Chair, we were going through the export of slurry. At one time the figure for the export of slurry was five but overnight it mysteriously came down to two point something. We got more accurate figures that were a bit higher than that and were in the threes. If...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is work being done on phosphorus in areas? Am I correct in saying it is being done and it is not all being concentrated on two or three areas?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: That is good to hear. I thank the witnesses for their time.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Sector Staff (29 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 151. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current number of vacant TAO and SAO positions; the breakdown of same across the divisions per county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24369/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Sector Staff (29 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 152. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of TAO and SAO that have currently applied to retire in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24370/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Sector Staff (29 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 153. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of current TAO and SAO employed in each division per county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24371/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (28 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 158. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has instructed Transport Infrastructure Ireland to withhold funding for overlay of national roads or national secondary roads in counties Mayo, Galway and Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24039/24]