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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I have been listening to the speakers and I will probably go a different way than that of the other questions that were asked. I was listening to all of the answers and there is a lot of experience and knowledge about the whole dairy industry. In the witnesses' view, is the model being used accepted?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Do the witnesses buy into the modelling that is being used of X amount of cattle in a radius of whatever mileage or kilometres, plus there is X amount of sewage treatment in plants and there is X amount of tillage and there is X amount of this, that and the other? Do the witnesses buy into that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: My problem is the validation whereby X number of rivers are done on a regular basis and Y number of rivers are done maybe once a year and there is a fair variance between what is happening there. I do not know whether people were watching our committee meeting a few weeks back when we had people from the Department of the environment in. I asked the witnesses whether they were comfortable...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...country in trouble with phosphorus apparently. The reality is, I intend to keep following it for as long as I can, that a huge amount of sewage treatment plants are not functioning in this country and it is not the fault of the people living in those towns who do not have the treatment plants they deserve or require. What are the witnesses' thoughts on the phosphorus part, because a lot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Look at the current map of Ireland and at this famous map that has landed. I come from an area where there are no dairy cows and the most pristine river in Ireland is in it, but this new map has gone over it as if it is a black spot.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...of slurry. At one time the figure for the export of slurry was five but overnight it mysteriously came down to two point something. We got more accurate figures that were a bit higher than that and were in the threes. If there is not as much excrement coming out of an animal, there is not as much methane. The figures are changing a lot with the research we have done because,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is work being done on phosphorus in areas? Am I correct in saying it is being done and it is not all being concentrated on two or three areas?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Sector Staff (29 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 151. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current number of vacant TAO and SAO positions; the breakdown of same across the divisions per county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24369/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Sector Staff (29 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 152. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of TAO and SAO that have currently applied to retire in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24370/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Sector Staff (29 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 153. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of current TAO and SAO employed in each division per county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24371/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (28 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 158. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has instructed Transport Infrastructure Ireland to withhold funding for overlay of national roads or national secondary roads in counties Mayo, Galway and Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24039/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (28 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 159. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the budget for Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) for 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24042/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (28 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 160. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding has been withdrawn from Transport Infrastructure Ireland by his Department for the three road projects (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24043/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (28 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 161. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the budget has been cut to Transport Infrastructure Ireland for overlay works on national roads and national secondary roads countrywide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24044/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (23 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 130. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the exemption to the waste recovery levy for C and D will be removed; if so, when this is proposed to commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23363/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (23 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 131. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the exemption to the waste recovery levy for C and D is coming to an end, how much per tonne will be charged on this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23364/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (23 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 132. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment what is proposed for 2025/2026 for waste recovery levy for C and D; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23365/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (21 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 518. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he can confirm that a number of buildings in Castlerea, County Roscommon are to be used to house international protection applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22626/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (21 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 629. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Guillain-Barré syndrome cases in Ireland from 2018 to 2023, inclusive, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22872/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (21 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 630. To ask the Minister for Health if Ireland is planning to introduce a vaccine injury fund similar to other countries in the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22873/24]