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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Reference was made to grants. Have the witnesses examined the percentage of farmers who have slatted sheds and the length of time cattle are housed in sheds? Farmers in the west would have cattle housed for way longer than their counterparts in the area from which the Chairman comes because the land quality there would be different. Farther south, cattle would be out grazing earlier,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thought it would be more. Does that include a compressor and everything else?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Would you need a further compressor for a three-bay shed with double suspended passage or would one compressor cover it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank Mr. Price. He mentioned other countries so is it correct that he is more in favour of farmers with cattle in sheds, or they produced fewer emissions? That is when compared to farmers with cattle in a field. Did I pick that up wrong?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Some professors I have spoken to have said that basically eliminating methane emissions would lead only to a reductive effect of hundredths of 1°C. What would Mr. Price say to the people from different countries that have researched this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am just wondering what Mr. Price thinks of their views.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am just asking the question about elimination of methane and the effect it would have on the global temperature. It is not my view but I have been told the change would be minimal compared with what could be done by bringing down CO2 emissions. What is Mr. Price's view on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Leaving aside what we have signed up, does Mr. Price agree that if we eliminate methane completely, it would have a fraction of the effect of eliminating CO2 from other sources?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What would be the worldwide effect?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Perhaps Mr. Price will educate me on this point. One is counted in parts per million and the other is counted in parts per billion. Will Mr. Price tell me how that works?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I was just trying to remember. Mr. Price mentioned fertiliser. Would he be an admirer of mixed species grasses? We have visited Dowth and we have looked at how fertiliser use can be reduced by something like 50% with mixed species grasses. Is he in favour of this to reduce fertiliser use?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What was that last sentence?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Does Mr. Price not believe people should eat meat? Is that what he is saying? Does he think we should be using the grain to eat and not giving it to animals?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Should methane not be treated in a totally different way to CO2? Should it be counted in a totally different way? One is counted in parts per million, for example.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Mr. Price talked about some countries that grow their own grain. At the moment, some countries are in difficulty, while the likes of vegetable growers in north County Dublin are going out of business because they could not sell their vegetables. With regard to EU food policy, does Mr. Price believe countries need to have more self-sufficiency? What is his view on that? Countries were...

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I agree with the previous speaker that if the individual targets are not laid before the House one by one, it is totally undemocratic. If I go on a journey from my place to Dublin and check it on Google, it tells me where I will start and finish. We have not done the measurements in the line of anything in agriculture. We are at a default position. I met members of Teagasc and we looked...

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is a wonder that the EPA does not know that with new vehicles it bought.

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What is a committee? It is carrying out the orders of the Government, for God's sake.

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The Minister will see with planning. He knows this country. We cannot take a drop of water in Roscommon two miles not to mind putting a wind turbine out on the sea. We are letting people drown in Roscommon and we are talking about building 200 m masts abroad in the sea. For God's sake.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Agriculture Schemes (6 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: First, to give the Minister of State a bit of background, this is an area of what one would call marginal land. Obviously, if there is a slide from bog, as the Minister of State knows because I know where he comes from and met him up in his own country, where there is bog, the land around it is marginal. These people are rearing families on small portions of land and in my opinion, they...