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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Construction Industry (6 Mar 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 251. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment given the current housing crisis, if he has any plans to bring in qualified non-EU workers in the construction industry, such as plumbers, electricians, bricklayers and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10304/25]

Waste in Public Expenditure: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: They signed up for the jobs.

Waste in Public Expenditure: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: To correct the record, we went in to meet the Taoiseach and Tánaiste and put a policy document in front of them. When we talked about trying to save the agricultural sector from a carbon tax, others decided to sign up to it. We talked about freezing it and perhaps putting it on aeroplane travel. People can decide whether to go on holidays but cannot decide whether to go to work 30 or...

Housing Commission Report: Statements (27 Feb 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I wish both the Minister and the Minister of State, Deputy Kevin Boxer Moran, the best of luck in their new portfolios. The first thing is that I think everyone is in agreement with Croí Cónaithe. It is a good thing and is getting more houses done. I think the cabin at the back of the house is a good thing. I would like if it was 200 sq. ft bigger, the same size as the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (26 Feb 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 205. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that capital value of land is reckonable for some means tested social welfare, i.e. jobseeker's allowance, and not for other means tested social welfare payments, i.e., State pension (non-contributory); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8539/25]

Importance of Agrifood to the Irish Economy: Statements (20 Feb 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: First, I wish both Ministers well. I thank them for their engagement so far. It is only fair that they get the time to settle in. There are a lot of storms on the horizon for them and to judge them on over the next few years. I brought this first thing to their attention previously and I ask both the Ministers of State, Deputies Healy-Rae and Grealish, to get involved as well. A lot...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Feb 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I wish the Minister well in her new portfolio. She will be well aware that over the last few weeks the people of the west, the north west and the midlands have suffered fair torture with the storm. In the context of legislation relating to the Department of the environment at the moment, many contractors went to help the likes of the ESB and the councils to get trees off roads and all of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Feb 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I know that.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (20 Feb 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 182. To ask the Minister for Finance if he can confirm if the Flood Insurance Bill 2021 has been enacted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7091/25]

Housing Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (19 Feb 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I wish the three Ministers well in their new portfolios. I welcome this morning's announcement on modular homes and log cabins but there is one thing I cannot fathom. I hear it is 40 sq. m. The modular homes being built at the moment are 600 sq. ft, which is 60 sq. m. I do not know why it is 20 sq. m less but I still welcome it because it is going to help people. Let us give praise when...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Development Contributions (18 Feb 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 434. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will extend the temporary waiver in respect of development contributions to local authorities for those building houses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5762/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (18 Feb 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 589. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a suckler farmer who is in BISS and has cattle but is not in any other scheme can qualify for a grant for a generator under TAMS or any other scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5691/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (18 Feb 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 607. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the area of clear fell and thinning that is the subject of a felling licence application to his Department that remains to be licenced, per county, for each of the years 2024 to 2034, for the private sector, identifying broadleaf and conifer separately and the corresponding details for Coillte, in tabular form; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (18 Feb 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 608. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the area of clear fell and thinning that is licenced per county for 2024 to 2034; the details that are available to him on the felling licence application provided by the applicant, for the private sector, identifying broadleaf and conifer separately and the corresponding details for Coillte, in tabular form; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (18 Feb 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 609. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline his Department's forestry licencing plan for 2025, particularly in terms of afforestation, roads, private felling licences and Coillte felling licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5931/25]

Response to Storm Éowyn: Motion [Private Members] (11 Feb 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the Minister.

Response to Storm Éowyn: Motion [Private Members] (11 Feb 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this matter. It is nearly three weeks since this bomb hit the west, the midlands and the north west. It is good to see people coming back but, my God, three weeks is a long time. Eamon Ryan's dream of air-to-water heat pumps turned into a nightmare for most people. They were perished in their houses. Thank God a lot of people had a chimney. We...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: First, I wish the Tánaiste well in his new position. Two weeks ago tonight, the people of the west, the north west and the midlands faced one of the toughest nights of their lives with the after-effects of this storm. They are still being felt and will be felt into the future. On Saturday morning, the clean-up operation began, where local communities and contractors got together to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Will the Government give councils and local communities funding to make sure they can do a huge clean-up after this? There is a lot of debris.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the Tánaiste's comments on trees but this needs to put into a regulation and funded. No more of this talk can go on. We can never endure again what we are after enduring. Will the Minister for trade and enterprise look at small businesses that have been closed over the past week? Some of them are going into two weeks now. A lot of places do not have power yet. Will the...