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- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food, and the Marine (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Michael Fitzmaurice: The money is the money that is laid out. We will not change it here. No matter what we do, it will be the same. There is no point in holding the Minister all night. We got a few phone calls in recent days from people about slurry. Next year, from what I can see, most farmers will need to be using the low emission slurry spreading system, LESS, going by the nitrate regulations and all...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food, and the Marine (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Michael Fitzmaurice: No, I am talking about different things. The last one was EU direct payments, which is also the final area covered in the Minister's presentation. There is €28 million of a deficit. Am I right in that? The other area I talked about was slurry. They are straightforward issues.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food, and the Marine (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food, and the Marine (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Michael Fitzmaurice: Okay. Will the Minister look into the slurry issue? I can see a problem. I am a contractor. The bit I do will not change Ireland but I am talking about the number of farmers ringing at the moment who are not familiar with what they have to do this year and next. On Sunday evening, two of them rang me wondering what they have to spread with this year. Next year, they have to look at...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food, and the Marine (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Michael Fitzmaurice: From my recollection and from what the FCI put to us last week, other countries were able to get around it under the rural development plan. I ask the Minister to look at the issue.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food, and the Marine (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Michael Fitzmaurice: It was remiss of me earlier not to point out that the former Deputy, Noel Treacy, who passed away earlier today, represented part of my constituency. He was a member of the Chairman's party at one time. I send my condolences to his family and I also extend my condolences to the Kitt family on the death of Mrs. Kitt.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food, and the Marine (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Michael Fitzmaurice: Would it be because of Brexit or anything?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food, and the Marine (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Michael Fitzmaurice: I was looking at administration costs. Is the increase due to new schemes coming in?
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (8 Feb 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 805. To ask the Minister for Health if the €1,000 pandemic bonus will be paid to healthcare assistants who are employed by private providers but who work in the homes of HSE clients as part of a home care package; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6741/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff (8 Feb 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 811. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the date the current senior inspector in the Forestry Service secured employment with his Department; the date that they were appointed to their current role; the responsibilities attached to that position; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5862/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff (8 Feb 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 812. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the date the head of the environment section within the Forestry Service secured employment with his Department; the date they were appointed to their current role; the responsibilities attached to that position; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5863/22]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hedgerows, Carbon and Biodiversity: Hedgerows Ireland (9 Feb 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for attending and making their presentation. The first thing that must be recognised is that in the 1980s, the same EU that the witnesses have spoken of, in respect of what it is looking for now, paid farmers around this country to knock every ditch and hedge down. Farmers basically had to get bulldozers and drive them into a corner. It is the same EU that is looking...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hedgerows, Carbon and Biodiversity: Hedgerows Ireland (9 Feb 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I am not saying it has to be hedges, but 4% has to be idle for biodiversity. Is that a good thing? Does Mr. Hickey welcome that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hedgerows, Carbon and Biodiversity: Hedgerows Ireland (9 Feb 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The witnesses talked about gapping in hedgerows. What is the solution to gapping?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hedgerows, Carbon and Biodiversity: Hedgerows Ireland (9 Feb 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: We have noticed that breasting a hedge, which can be done with a machine, by putting a scraw on the end of it, as it was done traditionally in rural Ireland, thickens the whole hedge and takes the daylight areas out of that. Regarding the statistics about Monaghan compared with statistics around the country, was it a section of Monaghan or was every part of Monaghan looked at?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hedgerows, Carbon and Biodiversity: Hedgerows Ireland (9 Feb 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Was every hedge in Monaghan looked at?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hedgerows, Carbon and Biodiversity: Hedgerows Ireland (9 Feb 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Am I correct in saying that 10 sq. km have been used in total out of the county?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hedgerows, Carbon and Biodiversity: Hedgerows Ireland (9 Feb 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: When Ms Clerkin says that a certain amount has been lost, has she also looked at or contacted the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine to discover, through GLAS and the other schemes which involved people sowing trees, to add up what was added to compensate for what might be lost?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hedgerows, Carbon and Biodiversity: Hedgerows Ireland (9 Feb 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I would be surprised if there were no additions with some of the environmental schemes going back to 2010 or, even before that, with the rural environment protection scheme, REPS. Ms Clerkin will be familiar with the land too. There was a substantial amount of sowing under the schemes, including in Monaghan or any other county, especially those counties in the west or where there are many...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hedgerows, Carbon and Biodiversity: Hedgerows Ireland (9 Feb 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Did it cover sections of 40 m, 20 m or 15 m? It gets more accurate.