Results 61-80 of 8,158 for speaker:Michael Fitzmaurice
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Nitrates Derogation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: For Dr. Ó hUallacháin, the cleanest river in Ireland is the Islands River. About ten diggers cleaned it 12 to 14 years ago. It is one of the best rivers in Ireland. To anyone who talks rubbish about cleaning rivers and says that things will not come back, I say that rivers were cleaned for years and all the different things came back. This myth has to be got rid of. If you do...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Nitrates Derogation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What does that mean?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Nitrates Derogation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Will it help us? If an ordinary farmer has 100 cows and RENURE is coming in, how will it help?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Nitrates Derogation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Would it have to be animal manure?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Nitrates Derogation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Right.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Nitrates Derogation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Who keeps track of the overall thing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Nitrates Derogation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Could I ask one question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Nitrates Derogation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Every river recovers. That is what I am saying. I saw it happen with the Islands River. Anyone can look it up under the EPA and what it is. One question I have----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Nitrates Derogation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: It is about exported slurry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I wish Ms McPhillips the best of luck in her new role. She has a tough job ahead, with all of the different things, but she is well-seasoned, in that she knows the job inside out, so the best of luck. On Mercosur, I want to say I am opposed to it, unlike Senator Daly, for this simple reason. If we look at the backstops that have been put into it, the so-called cushions, the first thing is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I imagine it would be 1% or 2% and when we talk about farmers in Brazil being audited, it is going to be like a fly on a wall. To be quite frank, it is going to be the very minimum. On the backstop, am I correct in saying that they are talking about basically a 10% drop in European meat prices before they put a brake on it? However, my understanding is, and correct me if I am wrong on...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: It can be 9% for five years in a row, which is 45%, and there is nothing we can do about it, to put it simply.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: From my understanding it is yearly on the price. Regarding the tonnage coming in at the moment with the tariff that is on it, am I correct in saying that tariff would be lowered completely, along with the 50,000 extra tonnes?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: In fairness, the Department has been tic-tacing with Europe on the Mercosur deal. Will it be down to a vote in the Parliament and the Council of Ministers? The way it is looking at the moment, I want to call it out straight. My reading of it is that if France gets more money, Italy will throw in the towel and the veto is gone with the Lisbon treaty and all of that. It looks like it will...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Sorry for interrupting, but am I correct in saying that by doing that split, they have now eliminated the national parliaments from having a vote?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: When the Department is tic-tacing with them, who is allowing them to split this deal? Does a Council of Ministers not block them, or is it von der Leyen or is it the Commissioner or who?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: So unelected bureaucrats have proposed this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: They are not MEPs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Has Ms McPhillips ever seen this done before?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What does that mean? Is that the ministers?