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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Industry: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I think most Deputies would support what Deputy Ring has said. If he or his staff sends an email to the clerk to suggest inviting the Department to the committee, it can be put on the work schedule with the agreement of the members.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Industry: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: That is not a problem. We can do it all together. Please ensure the request is made to the clerk. Deputy Browne says he has already made his request. Deputy Ring can make his. I do not wish to pre-empt anything but I believe that all of the committee members give their support.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Industry: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: A vote has been called in the Dáil so I suggest that we suspend and resume once the vote is over.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Industry: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Industry: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: We will suspend the meeting and resume after the vote, if that is okay with everyone.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Industry: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: While we wait for Deputy Browne to return, there are a couple of things that I want to get clarified. Am I picking it up right that if someone is in the industry in Norway, a licence takes three, four or six months or whatever, like a normal planning process, whereas in Ireland it is 11 years? It was said there are 2,000 direct and 16,000 indirect employees. It is a high ratio at 8:1....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Industry: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: There is one thing I am trying to establish. It was said it was four months in Norway. In France or any other country in Europe that has one of those farms, how long is the process there compared to Ireland?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Industry: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What is less time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Industry: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Less than a year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Industry: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: To put it simply, EU regulation is tying us up in knots.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Industry: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank Ms Morrissey. Deputy Martin Browne I said I would fill the vacancy while you were gone.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Industry: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: There were 800 sites designated, including marine, or what we would call coastal areas, on 7 December 2004 by the International Geographical Congress. They were adopted by Europe but for the individual site analysis, which Ms McManus has mentioned, the statutory instrument has only been applied to a lot of sites inland because I have been watching them fairly closely for different reasons....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Industry: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Was it ever looked at that the State was neglectful in not pursuing the legislation, which ensured that the aquaculture industry was held up?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Industry: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I am talking about operators because their licences were held up. Were operators able to work in the meantime?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Industry: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is it something like what is done with quarries and substitute consent?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Industry: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Could Mr. Mulloy explain about those grants?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Industry: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank witnesses for their presentations. Deputy Ring stated that he will send an email to the clerk to the committee to invite the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine to appear. Deputies Browne and Mac Lochlainn named two other parties they want brought in as well. I think there was a question earlier from Deputy Flaherty that our guests may have to supply further information...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Industry: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The Deputy is okay with that and we have no further business.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Industry: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I understand that. I am trying to establish whether we are the goody goodies of Europe who have to dot ever “i” and cross every “t”, resulting in it taking 11 years. Is there any country that is able do it in four, five or nine years or what?
- Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the budget. I was happy with some of the things in the budget and there are some things I was not as happy with. I cannot for the life of me understand why people would go on the rural schemes such as Tús from what I have read today. People on such schemes will receive an extra €5 but if people do not go on the scheme and stay at home they...