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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (23 Jul 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 309.To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the appropriateness of the requirement for credit unions to require a business plan to be developed before business loans above €25,000 can be issued as per regulation 16(3) of Central Bank Statutory Instrument 1 of 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30916/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (23 Jul 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 310.To ask the Minister for Finance the number of volunteer directors working on credit union boards of directors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30917/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 Jul 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 2204.To ask the Minister for Health when the national review of cardiac services report will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31870/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (23 Jul 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 2205.To ask the Minister for Health if there will be adequate and sustained funding to restore hospital-based cardiac rehab (CR) staffing to at least a minimal level, to include the multidisciplinary team required to provide comprehensive, high-quality CR; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31871/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 Jul 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 2206.To ask the Minister for Health in the absence of a current cardiovascular health strategy, how cardiac rehab will be supported by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31872/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Going by the reports done by the EPA and if it has to send a report next year, I know the witnesses have said it is an annual report. Regarding the report that has already gone to Europe on nitrates, would it be any better than what was sent before?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The west would have a high percentage of forestry. I see the EPA has done a chart on the pressures and it looks at it nationally. Leitrim is down as being high in phosphorous. Is that down to forestry because a huge percentage of the county is forestry?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is it possible to get that? Does the EPA have that information?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: People involved in the farming groups, including one in Senator Paul Daly's county, and farmers around the country are watching a lot of what is going on and are getting proactive. There seems to be considerable runoff. When you see green grass growing behind a sewage treatment plan, you know that something is coming out, to put it simply. The farming community is sending us photos, day in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I take Dr. Cotter's point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I understand that inspections happen on an annual basis.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is anybody checking on the recording in every plant? Dr. Cotter mentioned 73 areas. How many Uisce Éireann plants are there around the country?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Would it be fair to say that the EPA is looking at 15% of them? Dr. Cotter mentioned 73 sites.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is there any person-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: That is all right. Dr. Cotter said "on an annual basis". Does she mean once a year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What is the average?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: That is all right. I am throwing out a question to the witnesses. I presume the EPA has all the records of every plant in Ireland. Is that the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The records of the loads that are taken out and brought to another treatment plant. There is a flow meter. I will put it simply for anybody who understands sewerage. There is a flow meter in and a flow meter out. When you treat your sewage, you have a flow meter going out that indicates how many cubic metres have been let out and a flow meter going in that indicates how many cubic metres...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I take Mr. Byrne's point and thank him for answering. I am asking about the EPA's monitoring. Say I have a sewage treatment plant. It is like having a 100 horsepower tractor and a 200 horsepower tractor, to put it simply. Our witnesses will know what I am on about. For processing, one plant could be twice the size of another. Does the EPA know the amount of sewage that comes into the...