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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland (28 Oct 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Was anything done about it or was anything said?

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Can we deal with the cartel issue?

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: This is going to take intervention at a high level. The Tánaiste told me to go to the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport. We have had two Ministers in that Department since 2011, neither of whom has cracked this cartel. These are the facts. It has not been done. No one is making the move. There are people who it appears cannot be challenged. What is left to the people at...

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The Tánaiste is not answering my question at all.

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes, but I am not talking about that. I am talking about a cartel.

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The Tánaiste is not answering the question I asked about a cartel.

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I have made it clear that the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission has said that what is going on is wrong.

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: On coming to power, the Government promised to break down barriers, break up the cosy cartels, open up competition, eliminate the system of nods and winks and abolish quangos. The transport industry is very important and creates large numbers of jobs. It welcomes the measures the Minister for Finance took in the budget on taxation paid on large vehicles. Those who drive lorries must...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sport Ireland: Chairperson Designate (21 Oct 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome Mr. Mulvey. Although I do not know him, I must say I was impressed by his straightforward and honest contribution to a television programme he appeared on last night. It seemed to come from the heart, which is not something we encounter in bucketfuls around this place. It was good and refreshing to see someone so impressive whose heart is in the right place. We all know we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sport Ireland: Chairperson Designate (21 Oct 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes. Can something be done regarding the high-performance team? Perhaps some other body could take it over. Can Mr. Mulvey intervene now, even at this late stage, by putting his neck on the line to ensure this is pulled out of the fire? I ask him to intervene with our boxers, Billy Walsh and whomever else in order to ensure that common sense prevails so that we can go forward to the next...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sport Ireland: Chairperson Designate (21 Oct 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: We had Sinn Féin as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Emissions Readings for Volkswagen Cars: Discussion (21 Oct 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I think Mr. Himmer for the presentation. I presume the cars with 1.2 litre, 1.6 litre and 2 litre engines are all diesel cars.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Emissions Readings for Volkswagen Cars: Discussion (21 Oct 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Am I correct in saying that in 2009, Volkswagen changed the emissions? Does this mean that the emissions from a car built now are the same as those from a car that was built in 2008, because this did not work, or are they greater now? Is it true that Volkswagen has now stopped selling all of its vehicles, including Transporter vans, Caddies and so on, in Ireland? Is there a plan for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Emissions Readings for Volkswagen Cars: Discussion (21 Oct 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I apologise for interrupting. Are most Volkswagen cars and vans at a standstill?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Emissions Readings for Volkswagen Cars: Discussion (21 Oct 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: So what Mr. Himmer is saying is that Volkswagen will have to modify the injectors or install different ones?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Emissions Readings for Volkswagen Cars: Discussion (21 Oct 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Bosch injectors were used. Are they a problem?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Emissions Readings for Volkswagen Cars: Discussion (21 Oct 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I referred to cars going for an NCT.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Emissions Readings for Volkswagen Cars: Discussion (21 Oct 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Mr. Himmer is missing my point. How were the cars able to con NCT machines in Ireland when they were revved to check the emissions? The problem appears to have started in 2009, and once a car is two or three years old, it has to be tested. Emissions testing for cars involves the use of spec sheets to test standards. How were cars able to fool the emissions machines here?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (20 Oct 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 307. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason payments for the Keelderry and Roxborough commonages in the Slieve Aughty area of South Galway are being withheld under the areas of natural constraint scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36222/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Inspections (20 Oct 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 322. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 142 of 26 March 2015, 366 of 21 April 2015 and 558 of 22 September 2015, the way landowners who are not applicants to a scheme can refuse to allow an inspector onto their lands, where his Department's inspectors have entered the lands without any notice, as was the case during the commonage...