Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 November 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Michael FitzmauriceMichael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I might have with vex.

First of all, I am a contractor, but I am a small Mickey Mouse contractor when it comes to slurry in case someone would go throwing it at me. In relation to the low emissions slurry spreading which is planned to come in more over the next few years, it is contractors that put out 90% to 95% of slurry. To be quite frank about it, and farmers themselves would tell the Minister this, some of them have got the tankers and the gear for putting behind it. With them being busy or with, maybe, a tractor not big enough for agitating or whatever, they struggle at times. Is there any work with the Association of Farm and Forestry Contractors in Ireland, FCI, to see could it come up with something to help them on the TAMS side of it?

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