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

Michael Fitzmaurice: They are not too far apart. Bord na Móna has aspirations about biomass but I have done research on willow and know the amount of area one needs as compared with the amount available. I also know about the quality of land which will be required if Bord na Móna teams up with Coillte for spruce or the other trees it grows. We are importing timber from Scotland, manufacturing goods...

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is Bord na Móna expecting to produce peat and supply it to the ESB at €25 per tonne? It will not be able to buy biomass for anything near that. It will cost between €45 to €50 per tonne to import it.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: I have two other questions. Did any of the hierarchy of Bord na Móna take the 30% pay cut that it is expecting the people who do the work, day in, day out at Mountdillon or in Offaly, to take? It is my understanding that the higher echelons in Bord na Móna have not taken a cut and the ordinary people who do the work on the ground are very upset about it.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: Mr. Quinn spoke about the new mix of 50:50 peat and biomass for the new briquette Bord na Móna is bringing out. Will the briquette be dearer than the current peat briquette? Bord na Móna sells peat currently for €23 a tonne or €25 a tonne, and it makes briquettes from some of its stock, and so it can produce a briquette much more cheaply. How much will profits be...

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: I do not want to know the exact pricing. I simply wish to know the approximate percentage.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: Does Mr. Quinn think that Bord na Móna will lose market share given that peat briquettes coming in from Estonia and other places are being sold more cheaply than the price at which Bord na Móna can produce them? I would be the first to say that they may not be of the same quality. If the price of the biomass briquette increases, which will be the case until Bord na Móna can...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Audiology Services Provision (27 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 159. To ask the Minister for Health if he will take all necessary steps to ensure that a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon, and persons in similar circumstances, will have access to an audiology test within a reasonable time frame in order that they may be fitted with a hearing aid; his views that it is entirely unsatisfactory that a person of 98 years of age would be required to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data (26 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 749. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who availed of long-term nursing home care since the introduction of the nursing homes support scheme, also known as the fair deal scheme, from October 2009 to 31 December 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20789/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data (26 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 750. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who availed of the nursing homes support scheme, also known as the fair deal scheme, since its introduction in October 2009 to 31 December 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20790/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data (26 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 751. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who availed of the nursing homes support scheme, also known as the fair deal scheme, since its introduction in October 2009 to 31 December 2013, and who also availed of the ancillary state support loan scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20791/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data (26 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 752. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who availed of the nursing homes support scheme, also known as fair deal scheme, since its introduction in October 2009 to 31 December 2013, and who also availed of the ancillary state support loan scheme, which in turn resulted in a deferred charge being placed on their property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20792/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data (26 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 753. To ask the Minister for Health the number of farmers who availed of the nursing homes support scheme, also known as the fair deal scheme, since its introduction in October 2009 to 31 December 2013, and who also availed of the ancillary state support loan scheme, which in turn resulted in a deferred charge being placed against their farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (19 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 265. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason funding for the school completion programme is no longer ring-fenced; if he will indicate the future of the programme, post-2015; his views on whether the current indeterminate nature of the funding is causing a problem for the programme, its participants and its teachers; whether the ring-fenced funding this programme...

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Some €300 million.

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is not enough.

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: In 2016.

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is Frankfurt's way.

National Dementia Strategy Implementation: Statements (14 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank Deputy Finian McGrath for sharing time with me. I represent the constituency of Roscommon-South Leitrim. County Leitrim has the highest number of people, per capita, with dementia, while County Roscommon has the second highest. The statistics show that our population is ageing and every family has someone, be it a cousin or other relative, who has been touched by dementia. Early...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (14 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 153. To ask the Minister for Health further to this Deputy's correspondence to his Department on 18 March 2015, and the Minister of State's reply of 16 April 2014 (details supplied), if he will ensure that the Health Service Executive has the resources necessary to provide home help and the home care package to those persons in County Roscommon and in the south of County Leitrim who have been...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (13 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 58. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if it is the case that the rate band changes introduced by her on 1 September 2012 militate disproportionately against working women when they reach pension age, as evidenced by the fact that approximately 61% of those negatively impacted by the rate band changes are women, and approximately 39% are men; while she may have sought to ensure that...