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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Reviews (2 Jul 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 14. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 86 of 9 September 2024, if he will provide a copy of the findings of the mid-term Irish Farm Film Producers’ Group review, which his Department advised it was completing, which was initiated in November 2023 and was to be completed in the last quarter of 2024; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Programmes (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 604. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in relation to the 2022 pilot farm environmental study programme, the delivery of which was awarded to an organisation (details supplied) after a public tender process; when the decision not to proceed with the study programme was made by his Department; when the organisation was informed by his Department that it no longer planned...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Programmes (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 606. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the decision not to proceed with the 2022 Pilot Farm Environmental Study Programme was made by his Department; when an organisation (details supplied) was informed by his Department that it no longer planned to proceed with the study programme; the reason the programme did not proceed as planned; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 674. To ask the Minister for Health if the funding for podiatry services has been discontinued for people with type 2 diabetes (details supplied); if so, the date this was discontinued; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35204/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 800. To ask the Minister for Health at the time of the overview, the WTE number and grade of CR staff employed in each hub site; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35842/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 801. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who participated in a phase 3 cardiac rehab programme in each site (hospital and hub) in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35843/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 802. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria used to deliver funding to support 13 permanent cardiac rehab posts to integrated health authority regions (IHA) 1 and 2 (Galway, Mayo, Roscommon); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35844/25]

Legislative and Structural Reforms to Accelerate Housing Delivery: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank Mark Nolan and John Campbell for helping us out. I thank each of the speakers, whether they spoke for or against the motion. I thank them for spending the time. I will address a few of the issues raised by the Minister. Three years ago I came into the Dáil and today RTÉ is reporting that we are now in trouble. To build a house, a site has to be dug out. Stone and...

Legislative and Structural Reforms to Accelerate Housing Delivery: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The Minister spoke about different reports and bodies being set up and whatever. The bottom line is that if people do their job and are given the utilities, instruments and simplifications, everyone could do their jobs without putting layers upon layers. All we are doing, if we get a housing tsar or whatever, is getting another person to blame. We will say they should have done their job....

Legislative and Structural Reforms to Accelerate Housing Delivery: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I move: That Dáil Éireann: acknowledges that: — the persistent shortfall in the delivery of housing, particularly social, affordable, and cost-rental units, constitutes a structural failure of public policy; — successive Governments have fallen short of their own housing delivery targets, and a significant proportion of zoned, developable land remains idle due to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: First, in the line of ANC, everything changed with the new CAP, including ANC, BISS, CRISS, the eco scheme, sheep, calf and arable. When you look at the Department units led by Francis or Thomas or Margaret - Pat is in inspections and Josephine is on TAMS - we had not one problem. Okay, we would have to wait for a few weeks but if you picked up a phone, it was sorted. The one observation I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: No. The number of people that did not get paid at the end of 2023.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: How many people were waiting at the end of 2024?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Does Mr. Savage think it is acceptable that farmers waited two years? Would he wait two years for his few quid?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Where is the accountability?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: We will go back a little bit. I have been here ten years. I was here for GLAS and I saw for two or three years, the same dangling going on below in Wexford with that. We were in trouble for a few years. To be fair, it was sorted quicker. We are three years into this scheme and Mr. Savage mentioned figures earlier of 1,625, 558 and 3,300. In the case of how many farmers is it their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Mr. Savage mentioned it earlier when talking about farmers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: How many?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is the Department going to do a review of this to try to simplify it over the coming months to make sure that whatever needs to be dropped or got rid of, be it IT or whatever is going wrong, the Department will have it perfected for the payments come the end of this year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What is the Department going to do for the farmer who had delays in 2023 and 2024 and now 2025? For tax purposes, what is the Department going to do for them? Have our witnesses talked to the Department of public expenditure? If farmers have kids in college, there is a threshold on it. What is the Department going to do for those farmers because of its mistakes, not theirs?