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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Sustaining Small Rural and Community Business: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is it good for the Credit Union Development Association if we bring in officials from the Central Bank and explain where we are coming from in rural Ireland? We are all rural Deputies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Sustaining Small Rural and Community Business: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What about the interest rates?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for the presentation. I have a few quick questions. Mr. Donnellan was not there at the time, but Donnelly's Coal in Galway was closed last year with redundancies. This Christmas, the coal yard in Sligo is closing and Bord na Móna is involved in that. Derryfadda on the western side of the Shannon is out of peat production. Mr. Donnellan referred to 150 jobs...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is everything west of the Shannon.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Why are there no pilots west of the Shannon?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I would like to make sure I understand what Mr. Shier is saying. Obviously, gas and coal have to be brought from one place to another. Is Mr. Shier telling me that when we are comparing, the comparison cannot be with the little train that is used to bring peat from the bog in the midlands to various places? Is it the case that the comparison must be with gas and coal?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: If that is the case, the EU has gone mad.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What if we are talking about bringing peat in from right beside the station?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank our guests for their presentation. We are way behind with the infrastructure required for electric cars, particularly when one hears what people who own such vehicles have to go through in order to charge them. If Ireland moves fast in the context of providing incentives and so forth for electric cars, it appears it will not be able to keep up with providing enough power points to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I heard that with the subsidy it works out at approximately 20 cent per unit where the developer is a supplier.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What is the cost involved if there is a move to 80% wind, for example?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I also asked about the volume of wind being produced this year. Has EirGrid statistics for that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: My understanding is that this year has been the second worst in history. I am not talking about the number of turbines.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seeker Accommodation (13 Nov 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 266. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has approved a contract to a company (details supplied) to accommodate up to 80 refugees at a hotel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46704/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (13 Nov 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 355. To ask the Minister for Health the number of places available for day care services per day in the Sacred Heart Hospital, Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46713/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (13 Nov 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 356. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons attending the day care services on a daily basis that are available in the Sacred Heart Hospital, Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46714/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (13 Nov 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 357. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who attended the Sacred Heart Hospital, Roscommon on a daily basis in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46715/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Local Improvement Scheme Expenditure (13 Nov 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 536. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the timescale for the spending of local improvement scheme, LIS, funding can be postponed to March 2019 in order to allow county councils to allocate funding in view of the fact that he has not yet issued direction to councils (details supplied) in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46948/18]

Water Services: Motion [Private Members] (6 Nov 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Water and wastewater services are important to all parts of the country, be they urban or rural, and we need proper wastewater systems. Regarding the group water schemes in rural areas especially, we welcome the €230 subvention last year for schemes that have their own well and their own pump and the upgrade of moneys in that regard. That is badly needed because many of them were...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (6 Nov 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 103 of 30 November 2017 and a reply received from his Department of 27 September 2018, (details supplied) the reason for the discrepancy in the replies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44823/18]