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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Administration (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 427. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 365 of 21 April 2015, if he will clarify the relevance of Article 24(3) of Regulation (EU) No. 809/2014 to the Parliamentary Question asked; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21318/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Inspections (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 428. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he agrees with European Union Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr Phil Hogan, that no-notice inspections should end (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21345/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Disease Controls (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 500. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 284 of 15 April 2015, if he will provide a copy of the European Union Commission's confirmation and/or advice that the derogation provided for in Article 7 of EU Regulation No. 576/2013 is applicable to non-commercial movement of pets only, and must be applied on an all-or-none basis, and that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Audiology Services Provision (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 828. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the waiting times for audiology assessment in each of the counties Roscommon, Leitrim and Galway; if he will provide, in tabular form, the waiting times in each of these counties for the provision of a hearing aid following audiology assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22156/15]

Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (28 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: If we look at the bigger picture including tourism potential and the development of the regions, we need to ensure that we give equal treatment to Knock, Shannon and Cork. With the population that is in Dublin, Dublin Airport will always prosper. There is no point in saying it will not. The volume of people is coming through it. If we are to have balanced economic regions and people...

Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (28 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am thankful for the opportunity to speak to this issue. I acknowledge the Minister being here and I thank him for that. Some of us are on the transport committee and over the past few months we have seen people from both sides of the argument coming before the committee. One day we would listen to one side and another day we would listen to the other side; at the end, we had to assess...

Midland Regional Hospital: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on this matter. First of all, we offer our condolences to the parents who have lost their babies, be it in Portlaoise hospital or any other hospital around the country. It is a harrowing time when something goes wrong for the parents. Down my part of the country in Ballinasloe, this issue has come into the limelight as well. When we do an inquiry...

Midland Regional Hospital: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Because they were not given the resources.

Midland Regional Hospital: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I never said brain surgery.

Midland Regional Hospital: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Deputy Twomey should read the paper from last week.

Midland Regional Hospital: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Read Dr. McMullen's reply in the paper.

Midland Regional Hospital: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Accident and emergency.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Peat Briquette Production: Bord na Móna (27 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I will tell the Deputy what the wording of the legislation means. If one buys it and accompanies it from North to South one does not pay carbon tax. If a person has his hand around the bag of coal he is sound.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Peat Briquette Production: Bord na Móna (27 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the delegates for their presentation. Am I right in saying that Bord na Móna's peat prices have to come from €35 down to €23 or €25 after the levy has gone? The witnesses spoke about biomass, but I have talked to people in Bord na Móna who have looked at the ESB plant in Lanesborough. Is Bord na Móna not clutching at straws in this area? People...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Peat Briquette Production: Bord na Móna (27 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What must Bord na Móna do?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Peat Briquette Production: Bord na Móna (27 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thought it was exempt.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Peat Briquette Production: Bord na Móna (27 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is not exempt.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Peat Briquette Production: Bord na Móna (27 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: We have been led to believe it was exempt.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Peat Briquette Production: Bord na Móna (27 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What do they cost? Is it €4 or €5 per tonne?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Peat Briquette Production: Bord na Móna (27 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Mr. Quinn said Bord na Móna was teaming up with Coillte. We have to be realistic about Ireland at the moment. We are importing timber for the sawmills from Scotland. Mr. Quinn has spoken of pulp but we have uses for all timbers and we do not actually have enough of them. Am I correct that some kernels are being imported from Africa?