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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (14 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 287. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of lambs and sheep killed in meat factories here with tags with a chip number of either 08261 region UK1-Northern Ireland or 08260 region UK0-United Kingdom in each of the years 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020; the plants that the animals were slaughtered in; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30494/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (14 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 288. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the food business operators, FBOs, in which lambs and sheep were processed in each of the years 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30495/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (14 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 289. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of slaughter tags for lambs sold in each of the years 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30496/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (14 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 290. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of lambs sold to factories by farmers in each of the years 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020 that killed out at over 22 kg carcase weight; the factory locations in which the lambs were killed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30497/20]

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Financial Resolution No. 7: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: In the line of business, there are some good things in the budget. It is welcome. We need to keep people employed in this country. However, I hope it is not cumbersome. That is the one thing I hope for, because if we make it cumbersome the reality is that we will lose many jobs. I love the way figures are done. I have just come from the agriculture committee. Voted expenditure last year...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (20 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. There was reference to 20 years of growth, and it was stated that this disease is probably going to affect all the ash trees around the country. There are many along the sides of the roads as well, which many people might not notice, and those trees might break in a storm because of this disease. Given the situation that the members of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (20 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Can we get some idea of the cost? If every plant is going to get this disease, do we have any idea how many have it now? I understand that the witnesses may not know the situation around the country, but what percentage of trees have the disease now? Is there anything to prevent the disease from spreading, or is it just inevitable that it will? What would be the cost to cut to the chase...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (20 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What is the ideal scenario that will resolve this issue? Is it that people get their saws, cut down what trees are there, get the timber out, and then get a re-establishment grant and a grant for 15 years? What solves this? I know there is nothing to solve it at the moment but I am asking about Mr. White's opinion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (20 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: How many trees are there per acre? Is it 1,000?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (20 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is three times more than the spruce.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (20 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am referring to the acre, not the ha. It is not 1,000 trees to the acre. Is that correct? It is 2.5 divided by 3,000.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (20 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I would like the witnesses to clarify something to ensure I picked it up right. Generally, when a person plants trees, they decide to go for ash, oak or whatever. The person employs a forestry operator who will do up the paperwork, look after them for a certain number of years and submit the proposal to the Department for the farmer. The witnesses said the Department decided what trees...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (20 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Obviously, all imported trees must have a licence which the Department would have given. Is that the nub of the issue, namely the licensing of trees which were faulty?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (20 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: In fairness, whether they were good for hurley butts has nothing to do with the ash dieback.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (20 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for their submissions. I had to leave for a few minutes. We need to call a spade a spade here. In farming terms there is a saying that the day one buys is the day one sells. The day someone plants trees, after going through all the hoops, there should be a follow-on process for putting in a road so that he or she has everything the day he or she starts. That could...

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (21 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the opportunity to speak and commend the Regional Group on bringing this motion forward. In the previous Dáil, Deputies Danny and Michael Healy-Rae and the Rural Independent Group brought forward a motion on this matter and nothing was done. I am critical of the IPU. I will be straight about that. I warned two years ago that the ordinary postmaster and postmistress never...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Deputy McNamara will speak on the same matter. Level 5 is to come in tonight. I wish to make a plea with the Taoiseach in respect of the livestock sector, where the weanling calves are coming on market in large numbers. In fairness, over the past few months all the marts have run the show online but also ensured that people on site practised safe social distancing. There is now a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Last night I was preparing to raise an agricultural matter but this morning, unfortunately, I got a phone call on my way here from a director of nursing who was distressed and who felt helpless. The person was actually crying because they could not do anything as they were self-isolating. In a nursing home in my constituency, 25 of the 27 residents have tested positive. Unfortunately, one...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The Tánaiste said he does not know the facts. I am giving him the facts. I did not stand up here to make things up. I have talked to the director of nursing in the nursing home. They have one care assistant and one nurse to try to run that nursing home. These are the facts. Whether the Tánaiste wants to check it somewhere else, that is fine. I do not go telling the...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: A matter was raised after I left the Dáil yesterday which I want to clarify, and a few more Deputies talked about it. I did not mention any name of a place and I will stand over every bit of information that I stated on Leaders' Questions yesterday. I ask the Minister to clarify that I was not the Deputy he was referring to about scaremongering. I would like that to be clarified...