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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 307. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when tickets for school transport will issue for two siblings (details supplied) who applied and paid for their annual school bus tickets; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40014/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 310. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when tickets for school transport will issue to a child (details supplied) who has no other means of getting to school, and who applied and paid for their annual school bus tickets; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40029/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when tickets for school transport will issue for two siblings, (details supplied), who applied and paid for their annual school bus tickets and have no other means of getting to school, with the bus passing their gate twice daily; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40030/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 313. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when tickets for school transport will issue to a child (details supplied) who is now entering 5th year in secondary school, has always had a ticket and who applied and paid for their annual school bus tickets; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40051/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether two siblings (details supplied) can travel together on wheelchair-accessible transport, where one child has been approved this service and the other gets the regular Bus Éireann school bus and cannot be at the bus stop at the allocated time due to their parent assisting with the other child being put into the wheelchair-accessible...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 316. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a bus will be made available for students on route F661, who have already been allocated tickets and are attending a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40058/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 318. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when tickets for school transport will issue to a child, (details supplied) who has no other means of getting to school, and who applied and paid for their annual school bus tickets; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40064/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 353. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when tickets for school transport will issue to four families (details supplied) who have no other means of getting to school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40317/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 763. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine If he will provide actual details of European forestry legislation relating to planting on peat; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39998/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 764. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the qualified authority that advised his Department on peat definition, which will be used to exclude land from commercial afforestation activity in the forestry programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40000/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 765. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will carry out in-person training to prepare foresters for the new programme specifically regarding organo-mineral soil with a peat depth or equal to 30cm; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40001/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 766. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will carry out in-person training to prepare foresters for the new programme specifically on how to identify modified fen of modified cutaway raised bog; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40002/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 761. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total hectares of high nature value grassland now excluded from the forestry programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39996/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 762. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine who was the qualified authority who decided the definition and area of high nature value grasslands to be removed form afforestation activity in the forestry programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39997/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality and the Nitrates Derogation: Discussion (15 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the Minister and Mr. Massey and Mr. Callanan for coming before the committee. A few things need to be put on record. There has been a lot of commentary over the past week. Being honest, if the Minister had gone out to Europe and on the beer with Commissioner Sinkeviius for a week, it was not going to change the decision; that is being straight up. The simple reason is that we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality and the Nitrates Derogation: Discussion (15 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality and the Nitrates Derogation: Discussion (15 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The Minister might just give me something at the end of the meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality and the Nitrates Derogation: Discussion (15 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: On Friday week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality and the Nitrates Derogation: Discussion (15 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The big problem here is the small family farm that is getting hammered. We have to try to protect the small family farm. How are the officials looking at classing calves? I think a year old, or between a year and two years is at 55 kg N/ha.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality and the Nitrates Derogation: Discussion (15 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: That is a woefully high figure. If a calf is 24 kg N/ha, it is a woefully high figure for what we call the yearling or the year-and-a-half-old. Is that going to be looked at in the line of nitrates? There is an awful need to look at it. It is very high. A suckler cow is 65 kg N/ha, is that not correct?