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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Agricultural Land for Renewable Energy: ESB Networks (12 Jun 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Recently there have been serious problems where forestry is being put up. A tree will grow to 70 ft or 80 ft over 30 years. Why does ESB Networks not look for them to be 20 m or 30 m back from its power lines? In Rooskey and Kilmore in County Roscommon people have been tortured over trees falling. Obviously, the land there would not be hectic and the trees might flip over pulling the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Agricultural Land for Renewable Energy: ESB Networks (12 Jun 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: In relation to ESB Networks bringing the power with the network it has at present, what I cannot fathom - they might explain it to me - is the wind farms I see being built beside mountains. Oweninny is a perfect example. There are corridors being built now, here and there. The big cities are the big users of power. How is that we are bringing it right across the country? My understanding...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Agricultural Land for Renewable Energy: ESB Networks (12 Jun 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Instead of causing controversy, for example, when it is trying to bring more capability in power supply or bring the power from place to another, why is ESB Networks not using underground? Going by other European operators, it is quite possible. Rather than rows starting over pylons going down fields, etc., why not do that, especially given the profits ESB Networks makes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Agricultural Land for Renewable Energy: ESB Networks (12 Jun 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: No, my question concerns when electricity is being brought from generation to supply. Let us take the example of electricity being brought from where it is generated to, say, for instance, Carrick-on-Shannon. This is one place in the west where most of the power works through. This is what I am talking about here. I am not talking about going down every road to Johnny and Mary with no...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Agricultural Land for Renewable Energy: ESB Networks (12 Jun 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Right. Basically, that is all I have to ask. I thank the Chair for keeping me on track.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Agricultural Land for Renewable Energy: ESB Networks (12 Jun 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Sound. I will go back to that.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Grant Payments (11 Jun 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 241.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason the hair and beauty sector that are primarily small businesses in the retail sector, have been excluded from the second payment of the increased cost of business grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24907/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (11 Jun 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 399.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that Uisce Éireann’s delivery programme has been truncated because of inflation costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25010/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (11 Jun 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 400.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is going to increase Uisce Éireann’s budget to account for inflation costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25012/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (11 Jun 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 401.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, in light of water quality reports and need for sewage treatment plants upgrade and new builds due to extra housing, he will increase the budget that is required for these works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25014/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (11 Jun 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 402.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if future infrastructural projects that are required to accommodate the housing that is required are properly funded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25015/24]

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: 679.To ask the Minister for Health the procedures used for the allocation of beds in the cancer care centre at University Hospital Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24638/24]

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.