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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I forgot one thing. Am I correct in saying that at the moment, a planner's licence is at risk if he or she verifies that slurry was moved but a farmer has not done what he or he said he or she would? A text comes to a farmer and not to the planner. Planners have to take the word of the farmer. Is the Department threatening that or is that just hearsay?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Are texts the solution?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Okay. Keep going on contracts and nutrient management plans.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is paid for by the taxpayer already.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am sorry; Mr. Canning; we have to let the next man go.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The contract.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Keep going.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The farmer gets it as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: That the witnesses are carrying out fraud.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The last question I have is a quick one. In regard to the fertiliser database, what date does that have to have that filled by? Is there a risk that if a merchant does not put in what they got during the year until the end of the year, a farmer could then tip over on their nitrates? Is that risk there? Is it genuine?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I want to go back to one thing, just to be clear. I am a farmer, moving slurry. My understanding, and I want clarity on this, is that if a farmer is moving slurry, the Department sends a text to the farmer and the receiver. If I put in a BISS application and I have a problem with it, it will come to me as the farmer and it will also go to the planner who filled it out. The query goes to...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Where is the suckler scheme you promised?

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What about tillage?

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: And yet there is no extra money for farmers.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (7 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an increase in capitation funding for primary schools will be considered in view of rising costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53783/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (7 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 684. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) who is in a nursing home and in receipt of the fair deal support will be examined. [53697/25]

Community Pharmacy Agreement: Statements (2 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this. I agree with the agreement. It is a step forward. Pharmacists are highly qualified people. Doctors around the country are under pressure. An awful lot of people, especially those who do not have medical cards, cannot get an appointment for weeks. If a person has a chest infection or something simple that can be diagnosed quickly, they still...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security; Interinstitutional Relations and Transparency: Mr. Maroš Šefovi (2 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I want to get in as much as I can. First, I thank Mr. Šefovi for coming. Can he explain one thing on the trade deal? When is the movement of the products going to happen? Has it happened already or will it be when it is ratified by the EU?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security; Interinstitutional Relations and Transparency: Mr. Maroš Šefovi (2 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am talking about the trade deal. When do the products go over and back tariff free? Are they moving already or is it when they are ratified? The second question is on the 10%. My understanding in reading it is that if beef reduced by 8% in a year, it does not kick in, and if that happened over four or five years, it still does not kick in because it is under the 10% each year. Clarify...