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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Farmers are also being asked to fence off setts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: And farmers. Everyone thinks a feed lot is a shed. It is not. It is also land with double fencing each side. That is the regulation and that is what they do. I am not saying a word to them. Badgers cannot be stopped from travelling there and travelling somewhere else, but the Department says infected cattle can go there, but nowhere else.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: This clock has gone arseways altogether, because I had four minutes a while ago and now I have 58 seconds.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: No, fair is fair. In the line of proposals, I have heard this from a few people. Are the paddocks where a lot of cows are together showing more infections? A "Yes" or "No", please, because my time is running out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: We are hearing from different Department officials that where there are a lot of cattle together, they are breathing-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: That is all I wanted to know. Farmers are getting sick of this. When there is a breakdown in an area, we hear about a severe or less severe interpretation. We put the gear into them and it shows they have gone down or not. Why, then, are there so many false positives on this blood test? My understanding is that there are asymptomatic cattle that never show up, but there is a UCD test....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Someone from UCD came out to a farmer near me and said to the farmer that the person was doing this test.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is it true to say that the blood test is giving a lot of false positives?

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 wrote them all down. I think it was near the end.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The Department says, on movements of cattle, that the next farmer that gets an animal will have to test it again. Is that right or wrong? Is this going on at the forum?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is an impossible question. Dr. Barrett cannot answer it.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (17 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 748. To ask the Minister for Health whether it is possible for a brother-in-law of the person receiving long-term care in a nursing home to be named as a 'family successor”, in order to qualify for the three-year cap on family farms under the fair deal programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31835/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority (12 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 257. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to publish, or lay before the Oireachtas, any legal advice received by his Department or the NTA regarding the lawful basis for funding public realm works where the planning authority is in breach of its statutory planning obligations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31631/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority (12 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 258. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to complaints made to the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General, the Public Accounts Committee, and the Ombudsman concerning the legality and governance of NTA funding decisions, particularly those referenced in correspondence from a Councillor (details supplied) dated 7 May 2025; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority (12 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 259. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether NTA embedded staff are required to comply with local authority planning policies; whether any guidelines exist to govern oversight and accountability of these activities by elected members; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31634/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority (12 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 260. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether he has received any reports or complaints that the NTA has dividing large public works into smaller phases to bypass environmental and planning assessment requirements under the Planning and Development Acts and the SEA Directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31635/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Policies (12 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 386. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether Fingal County Council is currently in breach of statutory obligations under section 19 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, having failed to adopt Local Area Plans for multiple relevant urban areas since 2000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31636/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Policies (12 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 387. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether he has considered issuing a direction under section 31 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 to Fingal County Council for its repeated failure to adopt mandatory local area plans in urban centres with populations over 5,000, as confirmed by the High Court in Byrne v FCC & Ors [2025] IEHC 204; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Policies (12 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 388. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to clarify the current legal standing of planning permissions granted in North County Dublin in areas where local area plans have been statutorily required but not adopted since 2000, including whether such permissions are legally sound or open to challenge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31638/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Policies (12 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 389. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether county development plans adopted in the absence of required local area plans are legally valid; the advice issued to local authorities and An Bord Pleanála regarding zoning and planning in these circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31639/25]