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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Do you give them money or anything?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: No, I asked a question. Did HSI flag that there would be delays?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The Minister is correct in everything he has said. I am not having a go at the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donovan. I am talking about legislation. The Minister mentioned the people of Lough Funshinagh. There is a steering group for those people. This steering group looks like it is going to sit for another three or four years with the way it is going. The water is coming. You cannot...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Over recent weeks we have seen various Ministers, including the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, our Taoiseach and our Tánaiste in different parts of the country where there has been serious flooding, where people have lost their businesses or are in deep trouble and where householders have been flooded out of it, never to get insurance again. We have seen this in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The people right around this country-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: -----need honesty because that is nine years on the go. Tell that to the people in Midleton and other places.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 365. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine given that at a recent forest service training day in Killaloe, County Clare, the forest service representative stated that the new protocol or procedure for assessing and measuring peat-oregano mineral soil was trialled on 25 sites across Ireland prior to it being implemented as department policy and procedure, if he will detail,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 366. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will organise for the industry to visit the 25 sites, or a portion of same, trialled by the forest service of his Department in the assessment of the new protocol-procedure for assessing and measuring peat-oregano mineral soil for training purposes, as the full results of the 25 sites are known to his Department and will make...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 367. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, following the issuance of an afforestation technical approval for afforestation and a corresponding financial approval, and subsequent to ground cultivation taking place on a peat-oregano mineral soil site, that species selection needs to change from one forest type to another due to peat-oregano mineral soil depth, if this is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 368. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to confirm as per a recent forest service training event in Killaloe, County Clare, on the new forestry programme, a department official stated that if peat depth is greater than 30 cm after cultivation is completed on a site that has received a valid technical and financial approval, that foresters should convert to another forest...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Education and Upskilling in the Agriculture Sector (8 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: First, I thank the witnesses for coming in. I thank Professor O'Mara for his innovative ideas. I contacted him two weeks ago. In fairness, he and Dr. Laurence Shalloo were quick about getting on the ball. I have a question for Teagasc. I am watching youngsters in national schools and secondary schools who are nearly brainwashed before we can get them because of how agriculture is being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Education and Upskilling in the Agriculture Sector (8 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: There are problems. In the line of young farmers, do we even hold what we had? I look at the age of farmers on the suckler and dairy side of it. The release of farms is a problem. There is no point in saying it is not. What do we need to be doing to keep that figure up? In our local club at home, I watch how many youngsters are knocking around and born every year to see if we can keep...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Education and Upskilling in the Agriculture Sector (8 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: My theory is that people farm for roughly 50 years. With that 1,000, it gives us 50,000. We have 130,000 farmers. What does the graph show? Are we in trouble?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Education and Upskilling in the Agriculture Sector (8 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: We have the ETBs doing it as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Education and Upskilling in the Agriculture Sector (8 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What are the figures?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Education and Upskilling in the Agriculture Sector (8 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I think the message needs to be given out, and in fairness it would be very easy for me to say different in opposition, that there are a lot of good incentives for young farmers at the moment, between the young farmer's grant and the entitlements they will get. I think we need to be clear on that. In my opinion, we need to send out the message. When I started off, there was damn all. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Education and Upskilling in the Agriculture Sector (8 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am sorry for interrupting but my general-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Education and Upskilling in the Agriculture Sector (8 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: My general thinking would be that we have the converted who go into agricultural science and who go to the ploughing championships because they are from a farming background, generally. They are the youngsters who are mad to go on a bus from school to the championships but we need to get to the youngsters who are not doing agricultural science in school but are doing art or something else....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Education and Upskilling in the Agriculture Sector (8 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: That is not such a bad thing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Concerns for Sourcing Winter Animal Feed in Shannon Callows Area: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for coming in. It has been 15 or 20 years since I met Mr. Silke to discuss bogs and designations. Mr. Broderick spoke about this committee and I will give him a few straight truths. There is no point in waffling and saying we are great people. The first thing is that the Shannon has not been drained in 100 years. As for the ground beside it, the Callows, to be...