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- Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025) Michael Fitzmaurice: It is down 25%.
- Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025) Michael Fitzmaurice: Okay. It is down 25%. That is grand. I am just trying to get through it. Can the Minister explain the carbon tax being 22.1% down? It is B13 on page 3.
- Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025) Michael Fitzmaurice: So the Department only gets a fraction of the overall carbon tax.
- Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025) Michael Fitzmaurice: Out of about €700 million or €800 million.
- Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025) Michael Fitzmaurice: It was €623 million last year before the rise.
- Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025) Michael Fitzmaurice: I refer to agri schemes. The Department was not able to give out the money in 2023 and 2024. Did that money have to be given back to the Exchequer? There is extra money this year because more people are getting paid who were owed it. What is the story with that? I ask the Minister to explain the agri-environmental scheme and the 30.6%.
- Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025) Michael Fitzmaurice: I am asking if, at the end of the year, the Department has to give it back. Why would the Minister look for more money? The Department should be able to carry it over. Is that right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for coming in. They talked about vaccinating badgers and cattle. We know from English trials that vaccinating cattle has not worked. They were showing as positive when tested a second time. How does the Department know it is working for badgers?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Forget about the science. It was said that when an animal is tested, if we put the vaccine for a bullock or heifer onto them, we cannot know - the English are going back again and redoing it - because they are showing as having TB. We have said we are not testing badgers. How do we know this is working and is not a charade of a test?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The witnesses said they are not testing the badgers that were vaccinated. Is that right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes, but the vaccinated badgers are not tested.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: How does the Department know it is working then?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Dr. Barrett is talking about science that someone else did. The Department has not done it on the ground.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The Department does not test badgers that have been vaccinated. Is it yes or no?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is there no problem about that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: If I buy a cow and she had not been tested for six months, am I not right that I have to test her again?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: At the moment if a herd breaks down, to get rid of cattle, they can be sent to feed lots. Is that right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: My understanding is that a feed lot is not always a shed. It is where there is double fencing on either side. What is to stop a badger from roaming in there to them and roaming out?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: There is more stipulation on an ordinary farmer than on a feed lot. Am I right or wrong?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes, there are, a fence each side. That is the stipulation.