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- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food, and the Marine (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food, and the Marine (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Michael Fitzmaurice: Okay. Will the Minister look into the slurry issue? I can see a problem. I am a contractor. The bit I do will not change Ireland but I am talking about the number of farmers ringing at the moment who are not familiar with what they have to do this year and next. On Sunday evening, two of them rang me wondering what they have to spread with this year. Next year, they have to look at...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food, and the Marine (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Michael Fitzmaurice: From my recollection and from what the FCI put to us last week, other countries were able to get around it under the rural development plan. I ask the Minister to look at the issue.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food, and the Marine (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Michael Fitzmaurice: It was remiss of me earlier not to point out that the former Deputy, Noel Treacy, who passed away earlier today, represented part of my constituency. He was a member of the Chairman's party at one time. I send my condolences to his family and I also extend my condolences to the Kitt family on the death of Mrs. Kitt.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food, and the Marine (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Michael Fitzmaurice: Would it be because of Brexit or anything?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food, and the Marine (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Michael Fitzmaurice: I was looking at administration costs. Is the increase due to new schemes coming in?
- National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The Minister of State might be able to answer this. Why are people who put in their postcode and were told they would have broadband in 2021 or 2022 now getting information back that it could be 2025 or 2026?
- National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I gave them to the Department.
- National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I will give the Minister of State a little insight because I know the game fairly well. I know many of the contractors - not the main contractors or the subcontractor - but a lot of the ordinary hedge-cutting contractors that do the different types of work related to broadband provision. I can tell the Minister of State what is going on out there because seemingly people do not realise it....
- National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I was watching the Minister of State on the screen earlier on when he talked about doing more connections. Am I not correct in saying that, under this contract, if Eir goes into the intervention area for somebody so they get high-speed broadband, then NBI or David McCourt is paid for it? Is that not correct?
- National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: It is a question. He might answer it.
- National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The Minister of State is saying to me that if Eir went in and did 50 houses where they have the high-speed broadband, McCourt does not get any money. Is he saying that to me-----
- National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: -----because I have read the contract.
- National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Therefore it can get paid.
- National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Who would sign-----
- National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Who would sign a contract like that?
- National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Who would sign a contract like that, where even if I do not do the work I am going to be paid? What civil servant would allow a Minister to sign something like that?
- National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: No, I do not. I am going to move on because I have only five minutes.
- National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: All right. The Minister of State might be able to answer-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The EU has a proposal to bring gas and nuclear in under the green banner. I do not have a problem with it where gas is concerned. However, the fact is we are relying on gas coming from Russia and it is like a tap at the moment, in that it can be turned up or down at any stage. US President Joe Biden announced yesterday they were going to do all in their power to ensure Europe was going to...