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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: If one is in Bord Bia, one cannot use it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Many farmers are in Bord Bia.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: We are not talking about bringing it in the lorry from the place out in the field.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I agree with what Mr. Macken has said.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What is the solution?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: To summarise, one has a double win. It is a win for sensitive areas and water quality and savings on fertiliser of 15%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Does a person only have to do that, I presume-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: To be clear, Mr. Macken is talking about bringing it from the sludge pit into the proper anaerobic digester and bringing the heat treatment in the latter up to a certain degree-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank Mr. Kennedy for the submission and, as usual, for helping us. I was out at the Devenish place and learned a lot. There are a few things that need to be grasped in this. A lot of people think that they are carbon neutral within the city and that the only people who can solve a lot of this are the farmers. This is the first thing that people need to realise, that from the minute...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013: Post-Enactment Scrutiny (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. From what I heard, it is my understanding that everybody has to get a dog licence. Why can we not incorporate all of this? If I own a car, for instance, I must have the serial number and everything right when I got to tax it. If I do not have everything right then it will not be taxed and will obviously be seized. I am reading into what the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013: Post-Enactment Scrutiny (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: That is all I wanted to know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for coming in. I will ask few quick-fire questions. Would they accept that people who own land have a right to decide what to do with it? They referred to Leitrim County Council. I know of Galway County Council. I am sure the witnesses are aware of it but you can put a set-back distance in a county development plan, as is being done in Galway at the moment, in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I have seen it done in certain areas. I know the witnesses' counties very well. There is a concern where there is a house and a forest on either side of it. God forbid if a fire ever broke out, but there is a huge risk. There is no point in saying there is not. There is a situation in Leitrim where some people - and it is hard to blame them in some cases - were farming fairly marginal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: In terms of what happened in Leitrim down through the years - Mr. Smyth is right about the big corporates - it was one of the counties where you would swear there was a vendetta to plant as much of it as could be planted. It has more than its share, and I would be the first to say that. It is about how you resolve the issues or about how you strike a balance in each county. We need a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I have another two brief questions. When one looks at objections to felling licences in Leitrim and other places, although a lot of them came from that neck of the woods, the harm is done at that stage given that the trees are grown. Why do the witnesses think there were so many objections to the felling of the timber? The timber was grown. If it is grown, it is end timber. That is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: First, I thank the witnesses for coming in. The representatives from SEEFA talked about the problems that are going on and the elephant in the room. They want significant change. In a few words, what do they call the likes of the elephant in the room or the problems? What is the change that they want? I would like to get an answer and just do quick-fire with them for a few minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I do not buy the European Court of Justice ruling.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I want that to be clear. I dealt with the habitats directive in 2010 and 2011 and, I am sure, the Department dealt with it before that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The forest management service has issued a new licensing plan. Does SEEFA not believe that plan will work?