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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (6 Mar 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 164. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to a matter in relation to the Horse Sport Ireland board (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11081/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (6 Mar 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 165. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware that as Minister for Agriculture he appoints up to two directors to the co-op board of the Irish Horse Board; when does this term expire; if he will continue to appoint a person or persons to that board; if he has sought input from that director on the Irish Horse Boards suitability or capability to undertake a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (6 Mar 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 166. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware that under EU legislation, studbook rules are required to be published by each breed society; the reason Horse Sport Ireland has not published studbook rules on its website for any of the studbooks it operates under licence from his Department; to confirm if his Department received copies of studbooks rules as part...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (6 Mar 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 167. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for delays each year in the opening of breeding schemes for breeders of sport horses administered by Horse Sport Ireland; if he will confirm that the breeding schemes for 2024 will open to breeders during the actual breeding season or if as 2021, 2022 and 2023 schemes will open during or after the season; the rationale...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (6 Mar 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 168. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter in relation to Horse Sport Ireland (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11085/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (6 Mar 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 169. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter in relation to the Irish Horse Board (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11086/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (6 Mar 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 170. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will make the terms and conditions of published for the Equine Technical Support Scheme operated by his Department for 2023 available; if he can confirm the recipients of the funding, the initiative supported and the amount grant awarded and eventually paid to each recipient, in tabular form; if he is satisfied that each...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (6 Mar 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 171. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number and grades of each person within his Department responsible for sport horse policy; the qualifications of those persons; the number of those persons with a direct involvement in the sport horse sector, such as competing horses in sports competitions by them or direct family members; if there any conflicts of interest or...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (6 Mar 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 172. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he receives regular updates from Horse Sport Ireland on the current passporting difficulties experienced by equine breeders; the current numbers waiting for 2023 passports to be issued by each equine studbook, by breed, reason for delay, duration of delay in tabular form; if the migration to SNP DNA testing could have been...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (6 Mar 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 173. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding provided by either Horse Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland to equestrian related bodies in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023; under what programmes and for what purposes in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11090/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (6 Mar 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 174. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding provided by Horse Sport Ireland to equestrian related bodies in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023; under what programmes and for what purposes in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11091/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (5 Mar 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 442. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when maintenance payments to carers will be disregarded as means for social welfare payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10237/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (27 Feb 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 398. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when his Department will issue an ECO payment due to a person (details supplied); the reason this payment is being withheld; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9245/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (20 Feb 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 450. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 116 of 31 January 2024, when his Department will have the IT system in place to pay those persons who are part of a partnership arrangement (details supplied) who have applied under ACRES; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7527/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (20 Feb 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 451. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applicants who are part of a farm partnership have received payment under ACRES; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7528/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Reports (20 Feb 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 455. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to detail, in tabular form, the peer reviewed research reports his Department relied upon in the definition of organo mineral soil and the maximum depth of 30 cm; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7667/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Reports (20 Feb 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 456. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to detail, in tabular form, the peer reviewed research reports which prove that native woodlands sequester more carbon on peat soils that conifers, taking account of the full life cycle of the timber used in construction, etc; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7668/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 Feb 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 457. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if peat lands excluded from the afforestation scheme in the new forestry programme can potentially be used for other farming purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7669/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Home Care Packages (15 Feb 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 309. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when home care support for a person (details supplied) will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7171/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (13 Feb 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 323. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she can seek assurance from the Teaching Council of Ireland that it will ensure that persons completing their masters in physical education in the UK can be facilitated in Ireland in 2024 to complete their two-year induction as there is a lack of physical education teachers within education settings; and if she will make a statement on the...