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VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank Deputy Harkin. I thank the Minister of State and everyone else who spoke on the motion. I thank the Minister of State for his engagement on this. Everybody is entitled to their opinion and I acknowledge that Deputy Nash of the Labour Party has an amendment in. For people who go into business in their local areas, there seems to be a disconnect from what I would call the people in...

VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — inflationary pressures over the past number of years have significantly exacerbated financial pressures on both consumers and businesses, particularly within the food service sector, which has been severely impacted by the spiralling costs of energy, food produce, insurance, labour and supply chain disruptions; —...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Public Inquiries (15 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 88. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the Covid inquiry and its terms of reference; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41129/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (15 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 93. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if RTÉ received funding from the Global Ireland Media Challenge Fund to boost media coverage of major geo-political developments and the changing nature of Ireland’s role in the world; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40998/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (15 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made in respect of an application for special needs school transport for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41292/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pension Provisions (10 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 123. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 135 of 11 July 2023, if a decision is close to being reached as to the increase for pensions and deferred pensions for members of the An Post superannuation scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40695/24]

Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The Minister knows that the agriculture committee is sitting at the moment and that some of its members will try to be over and back between the House and the committee. To be fair to the Minister and his staff, we went through the Bill in detail. The committee had no problem with it. We welcome that people can be over 70 years of age and still able to sit on the board. The committee...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Impacting the Fisheries Sector and Aquaculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for coming in. I have a few questions for the witnesses. What percentage of the fish of Europe are caught in Irish waters?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Impacting the Fisheries Sector and Aquaculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Okay, I will go on. The witnesses spoke earlier, and I was looking some things up on it, on the marine Bill or was it the maritime-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Impacting the Fisheries Sector and Aquaculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes. There will be designations twice the size of our landmass in this country by 2030. Is that correct? It is proposed that it will be 30% of all marine waters by 2030. My understanding is that two sites will be designated, of 3 billion ha. What effect will this have on fishermen or fisherwomen or fisherpeople?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Impacting the Fisheries Sector and Aquaculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I know that but, with all due respect, I heard the witnesses' earlier submission. I presume, in all of these things, that the submissions put in by the witnesses' Department will include the consequences of some of these actions that are coming in the next few years, between now and 2050, including consequences for the fishing industry and the effects of offshore wind generation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Impacting the Fisheries Sector and Aquaculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Would it be concerning to the Department if one of those proposed designated areas, which I am sure it is well aware of, was off the north-west coast, up near where Pádraig Mac Lochlainn is based, and another one down off the south-east coast, where there is a proposal relating to an area equivalent to 3 billion ha? Would it be alarmed if 30% of our area was going to be protected?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Impacting the Fisheries Sector and Aquaculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Does Ms. O'Sullivan have that figure for us?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Impacting the Fisheries Sector and Aquaculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: With all the different countries coming into our waters, what is the percentage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Impacting the Fisheries Sector and Aquaculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am not going to say I am an expert on fishing but, when you talk to fishermen, no more than on all sides of it, with farmers and such, the amount of paperwork involved is one thing you will hear about. There is a scheme some people were offered under which they could cut up their boat. Why are we going down that road? When you look at the statistics on the number of people or the number...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Impacting the Fisheries Sector and Aquaculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Does the Department get many new members each year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Impacting the Fisheries Sector and Aquaculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Thank you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Impacting the Fisheries Sector and Aquaculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What about the paperwork?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Impacting the Fisheries Sector and Aquaculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What I am hearing from people out catching is that when they land at the dock or harbour, the amount of paperwork they are required to have is getting on top of some of them, no more than in farming. It is the same thing. Where does all this come from? The EU has addressed this issue for smaller farmers, even though the size that has been chosen means it will not make any difference in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: National Dialogue on Women in Agriculture: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am sorry about earlier on. There were votes and a Bill on agricultural appeals under way. I apologise that not all of us could be here when the witnesses were talking. I have known Dr. Farrell for a long time. She is a good Mountbellew woman. She has spent a lifetime trying to bring forward ideas for rural Ireland, for sustainability and to keep rural communities alive. A long time...