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Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...to speak on this matter. Ireland is signed up under different protocols to take in a certain number of refugees every year and we are doing that. In fairness to the Irish people, when the war in Ukraine broke out, they opened their doors everywhere as has been pointed out by Deputy Tóibín. The Irish Red Cross made a hames of it, to be quite frank, because the rooms offered...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for coming in. On the Ukraine fund for businesses that have been affected, what is the budget and how much of it has been spent?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...spoke about the number of people who have left the industry. There have been meetings with the Minister. Are there forward plans? We should have learned lessons with regard to the war in Ukraine and food security. Does the Department have a plan to encourage people to get into the industry? Does it have a pathway forward whereby we will avoid realising someday that, having lost all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disparity in the Cost of Fertiliser: Discussion (26 Apr 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...the Chair. The Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022 is being taken in the Dáil. It is not great timing that the two things are on together. First, I welcome the witnesses. The war in Ukraine began last year. We heard straight away that certain things could not come out from Russia, including certain ingredients for making fertiliser. The war is still going on, but the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: RTE: Governance Issues (25 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I did not interrupt the Deputy. Seven or eight months ago I would be at home watching the news on RTE about the situation in Ukraine and so forth. I would then come into Leinster House and speak to other politicians who were on committees and had gone to various countries. They can tell us what is going on in those countries. They are the camera where there is no camera, for example, from...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (11 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...armies would not be put together, that it could not happen. Now we learn what is being said from media reports. I have not been here long but Deputies who go on trips to other countries tell me Ukraine is a corrupt country and of other countries supported by the European project which are corrupt, but we turn a blind eye to that. We do not want to see it because that is in the best...