Results 161-180 of 8,158 for speaker:Michael Fitzmaurice

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (2 Jul 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is the Department fighting that? It is crazy to have to have documentation if you, as a small operator, are buying fertiliser or selling sheep or cattle. The paperwork involved in this will be horrendous.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (2 Jul 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is the Department concerned about potential problems with the COM? A large producer group will have a contract or whatever. I am referring to farmers who sell ten or 15 cattle or 40 or 50 sheep. How will such contracts work? Does this refer to merchants selling farmers fertiliser or meal? Does that have to be a contract under all of this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (2 Jul 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Do we know what they are yet?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (2 Jul 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: An ordinary farmer------

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (2 Jul 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Are we not going down a certain road with the word "derogation"? I have read about derogations for years. Sooner or later, a derogation comes along and there is a battle with Europe. We have seen that happen with animal medicines, the dairy side and many other derogations. There were so-called derogations for bogs. Are we kicking the can down the road in respect of derogations? In five,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (2 Jul 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Can Ms Dunne answer one question I am trying to get to grips with. Maybe she has said it and I did not hear it right. Will an ordinary farmer selling 20 cattle or 40 or 50 sheep have an exemption whereby they do not need to have this contract? Are farmers bound by the regulation if they are not a purchasing group?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (2 Jul 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: That is only seven or eight cattle.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (2 Jul 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Can we block this if we are not happy? Can the Minister block this? I have concerns about some of this. I am worried about derogations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (2 Jul 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Could we get more information on that? The committee would be interested in examining this. The value of €20,000 today might include seven cattle if they are fit for killing. Could that be increased to €100,000 or whatever?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (2 Jul 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Dog Control and Sheep-Worrying: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Will Mr. Fitzgerald be quick?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (2 Jul 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: How long is the derogation for?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (2 Jul 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: There will have to be a written contract.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Reviews (2 Jul 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 14. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 86 of 9 September 2024, if he will provide a copy of the findings of the mid-term Irish Farm Film Producers’ Group review, which his Department advised it was completing, which was initiated in November 2023 and was to be completed in the last quarter of 2024; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Programmes (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 604. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in relation to the 2022 pilot farm environmental study programme, the delivery of which was awarded to an organisation (details supplied) after a public tender process; when the decision not to proceed with the study programme was made by his Department; when the organisation was informed by his Department that it no longer planned...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Programmes (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 606. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the decision not to proceed with the 2022 Pilot Farm Environmental Study Programme was made by his Department; when an organisation (details supplied) was informed by his Department that it no longer planned to proceed with the study programme; the reason the programme did not proceed as planned; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 674. To ask the Minister for Health if the funding for podiatry services has been discontinued for people with type 2 diabetes (details supplied); if so, the date this was discontinued; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35204/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 800. To ask the Minister for Health at the time of the overview, the WTE number and grade of CR staff employed in each hub site; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35842/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 801. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who participated in a phase 3 cardiac rehab programme in each site (hospital and hub) in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35843/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 802. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria used to deliver funding to support 13 permanent cardiac rehab posts to integrated health authority regions (IHA) 1 and 2 (Galway, Mayo, Roscommon); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35844/25]