Results 1-20 of 70 for sligo speaker:Michael Fitzmaurice

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (4 Jul 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: These people were prepared to travel 115 km each way. Yet, we did not have a service in the whole of the west of Ireland. We did not have it in Letterkenny, Sligo, Castlebar, Roscommon or Galway, which was to be the centre of excellence. It is a damning indictment of our country - and I come from the agricultural sector - that if that night I had an animal that lost part of its foot or was...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (4 Jul 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...for Health is not present. I think an inquiry needs to be held into this. The child is 17 years of age. He had an accident. NoWDOC is in chaos in Carrick-on-Shannon. This child went to Sligo hospital but it does not have the facilities to deal with his situation. We are supposed to have so-called centres of excellence that include Galway hospital. The Minister of State's buddy, the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Projects (22 Jun 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Deputy Harkin, along with other Deputies in the area, has been to the forefront of this. I was in County Sligo for the launch with great fanfare of Project Ireland 2040, as were other Deputies. The upgrade of the N17 road was part of it. Small amounts of money are all that are needed for the coming years. The N17 is a major road. We are talking about having a greenway from Sligo to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Projects (22 Jun 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ..., for example, the absence of a rail corridor, people in the region have to travel by bus or car. There is no other choice to reach a centre of excellence. On behalf of the people of Sligo, and those from as far as Letterkenny and the surrounding areas who have to go to Galway for treatment, I ask the Minister of State to prioritise this project and make sure the funding is put in place...

Our Rural Future Policy: Statements (14 Jun 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...Department of Transport, the budgets for roads around the country are in trouble. There is no point in saying that is not the case. We have the likes of the Galway outer bypass and we have the Sligo to Galway road. This is not us saying this but constituents will say that there seem to be more people thinking about going on a bike from Sligo to Galway than thinking they will go to work...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I met Mr. Fleming at a few meetings around the country, in fairness to him. In Sligo he would have seen the lack of confidence, as Mr. Rushe said, that is there now. That is going to take an awful lot of rebuilding.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (20 Jul 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: My understanding is that we are using figures on default and that Teagasc - and I went to Sligo to see where it was setting up on what we call peaty soil - is only now getting the figures together. That is going to take a while. Many of the figures we are using at present are worst case scenario that we have no research on. That is not good. It is the same for climate action. We are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...The following morning the price was €1.60 per litre. That oil company did not import oil from foreign seas on four different occasions that day. It was able to sell green diesel to a person in Sligo at €1.20 per litre even though it was advertising it online at €1.60. What type of gouging was that in the green diesel sector?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...€1.35. That evening I was in Mullingar at meeting of plant contractors. The prices increased that evening and the following morning. The Chair can Google it on his phone and get the quotes. I talked to a guy in Sligo the next morning and he told me that the price of diesel was going mad. I asked him what he paid for it and he told me. I smiled to myself because I had looked at...

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...are built properly. There is one very simple way of doing this through product liability. If there had been product liability from the companies involved for the poor people in Mayo, Donegal, Sligo, Clare and all of these other places, the taxpayers in this country would not be forking out to the tune they are having to. That is the reality of it. It is scandalous that the company that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Implications of Climate Action Plan for Agricultural Sector: Teagasc (14 Apr 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...spray away more tannins. Is that correct? Are we defeating the purpose altogether? In its document, Teagasc talked about peatlands and wetlands. What is its vision for people in Donegal, Mayo, Sligo, Galway or any other area which has mountains or peaty ground who are trying to farm, do the best they can and rear a family? Is the vision that such people should flood their ground for...

Project Ireland 2040: Motion [Private Members] (1 Apr 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...got to put in a community sewerage scheme are gone. A central authority will now decide the number of houses that are going to be built in each county. In the west, the likes of Galway city and Sligo town will be given priority. As we move down the ladder, the big question is what will happen to housing allocations in rural areas. The Office of the Planning Regulator is in place and we...

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Second Stage (11 Nov 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...to cross-Border issues and a subsequent speaker said Britain is pulling away. We know it is but I am thankful there is a triangle in the north of the country to ensure that people from Donegal, Sligo and elsewhere can access treatment for cancer. Unfortunately, there are people in this country who have been waiting for two, three and four years to have a cataract removed. It is a...

Regional Airports: Motion [Private Members] (11 Nov 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...funded a project going from Foynes into Limerick and on to Shannon. We should have the western arc connected to include Galway city, Limerick city, Cork city, Kerry, including Killarney, as well as Donegal and Sligo. We have links there that do not put pressure on trying to keep housing in Dublin or put pressure on people who are renting and all the different parts of it. This is not...

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Budget Statement 2021 (13 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...I refer to €4 billion or €4.5 billion. Most of the beds, however, are already allocated. I think that is something like 120 beds or perhaps 130 beds. In the same way as is the case with the N4 in Sligo, that job is done. I am sick of listening to budgets over the last three years that have been concerned with that infrastructural road. It is done and dusted and the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Sep 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...has been waiting 823 days, 681 days and 713 days for replies to applications but has not got one. The average time it has been waiting for a response for each of these 30 applications is 368 days. I was in Sligo when Project Ireland 2040 was announced. At that time, it was announced that 440 million trees would be planted. The Government said that it would plant 37,410 ha between...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...but these are six or seven years away to be quite frank. Some 300 to 400 Bord na Móna workers have been already thrown on the scrap heap and have been given redundancy. The coal yards in Galway and Sligo are where the people also have mistrust. They took the redundancy as they had no other choice. Going back to Seán Lemass's time and Shannon Airport, is Mr. Mulvey prepared...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...'s coal yard in Galway - Mr. Noone will be familiar with everything that I am talking about - was Bord na Móna owned. What was the solution? Redundancy. What was done with the workers? Nothing. The Sligo coal yard workers are gone. This is calling a spade a spade but anywhere there was a jobs announcement, it was a redundancy. There was no other solution. Just transition is...

Early Exit from Peat for Electricity Generation: Statements (6 Nov 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...been in power. The answer to the just transition in Donnelly's coal yard in Galway, which was controlled by Bord na Móna, was redundancies, and to let them off. The next phase we came to was the workers in Sligo where the coal came in. The just transition was redundancies and let them off. For people in Derryfadda or Mountdillion, or in parts of the midlands where the works have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Affecting the Quality of Water: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: My next question is for Mr. O'Leary and Mr. Ó Coigligh. At Lough Talt in Sligo Irish Water was going through the imperative reasons of overriding public interest, IROPI, process. It is dragging on. Mr. Ó Coigligh should be very familiar with the national parks. Is the process nearly complete for the people surrounding Lough Talt who have experienced a problem with the water...