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- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Staff (25 Apr 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 57. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of employees employed by his Department at the end of 2022 and at the end of 2023; the current numbers for 2024; if there is an embargo on recruitment in his Department at the moment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18678/24]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Staff (25 Apr 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: How many people were employed by the Department at the end of 2022 and at the end of 2023 and what are the present numbers? Is it true that there is an embargo on recruiting people into his Department until others retire? Will the Minister make a statement on the matter?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Staff (25 Apr 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: That is less.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Staff (25 Apr 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the Minister for his reply. As he may be aware, new conditions are coming in from Europe every year. The export of slurry is an example. Obviously, such new conditions require resources, as do the various schemes that the Minister introduces. What I am hearing from inside the Department is that people are being told that, if they are short staffed, then they will not get new staff...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Staff (25 Apr 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: For the Minister's information, there is fierce confusion among small abattoirs about the so-called new legislation that is under discussion. Councils are basically washing their hands of abattoirs and say that, since they do not have the resources, they will not go near them. One council has actually refused to help. The Minister is well aware of that situation. I have submitted a formal...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the Minister of State for his reply, but this falls under the habitats directive. While we might not like the side of it that is looked at, it seems to put the turlough and the SAC before people. However, under the legislation and under the habitats directive there is emergency legislation to put a solution in place where a site of community of importance or an SAC is being damaged...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Two minutes, one and one.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the Minister of State for coming to Roscommon to see it. He stated that he would have an update in two weeks and that is what we are waiting for. We appreciate people coming looking at it and if I had a euro for everyone who came, it would nearly do the job, but I would rather that we get the solution. The solution is what is needed. I believe that the solution is there with the...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Some 150 children attend Mullingar regional hospital for diabetes treatment. It covers counties Offaly, Longford, Westmeath and surrounding areas. The weekly clinic and nurse on-call service are now gone. That is critical. I have spoken to parents with babies aged from two or three months to six months old. These are children who are not talking yet and cannot tell their parents how they...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: There is no clinic today.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes, I know all this.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: It will take you to sign it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Friends of no one.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Thanks for the reply but the facts are we do not have next winter or next autumn. This is now. Roscommon County Council was brought to court on emergency legislation the council has, a totally different thing from the habitats directive under emergency law. Under emergency law, a Government has a right if it sees an emergency, and this is an emergency. When the generators needed to go in...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: You do it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: We do not have time.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Talk to the Attorney General and the National Parks and Wildlife Service-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: -----because that emergency legislation, you can bring it in.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank you for your answers but ask you to please talk to them and get it in on Tuesday.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: This will be a bit different and not the usual spat at Leaders' Questions. I thank Deputies Naughten and Kerrane. We are here as Roscommon-Galway TDs, joined together and above all we are here united with the people of Lough Funshinagh in County Roscommon. The Tánaiste will be aware of the situation with Lough Funshinagh in County Roscommon, where the water is getting higher and...