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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The CAP contains different proposals that are voluntary for farmers. Is this a regulation or a directive? Is it a legally binding document that Europe is trying to bring forward?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I do not understand how all the gears in the EU work. I understand this is COM (2022) 304. The member states were written to. Has Ireland written back yet, giving our opinion? Based on documentation I have seen, I understand Sweden has opposed this regulation. Have any other countries opposed it? What is the process in this? Where does DG Environment come in? Where do the MEPs come...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I had understood the Netherlands had a lot of peaty soil. Is it in bother with this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Article 16 deals with access to justice. Have I read this right that NGOs, some of the environmental people who love writing to Europe and telling them all the stories about Ireland - have a right and will be covered financially under the Aarhus Convention or something to object to Johnny farmer in Galway, Mayo, Roscommon or wherever who did not rewet his piece of ground? They can take on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Ireland has property rights that are different from those in many other European countries. How does one fit that in? We have the right to private property, for example. Is that being diminished or what is going on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am trying to get my head around this 70-year thing. Is it that you go back 70 years and look at what you had? How does one square that circle? I ask Mr. Curley to elaborate on that. We were discussing it but sort of moved away from it. Has Ireland written back yet? After the State writes back to these people who are looking for the support or otherwise of each member state, does it go...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Bord na Móna is rewetting some of its ground but I am not overly concerned about that. I am talking about farm families who reclaimed land - be it 10 acres, 20 acres or whatever - to make their farms sustainable. That is the big concern we have for every farmer. Every county will be affected by this. It is not just about what will happen outside my back door; this is going to affect...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I want to let other members in because I have taken up enough time. I thank Mr. Curley for all the work he has done on this but I ask him to pass a little message to them out there that, especially after they cross the River Shannon, they will get a horrid shock if they think they are going to rewet what we have been trying all our lives to dry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Can the Chairman tell him to come in on the piece where I asked what the stages are?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (11 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 795. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if large-scale investors associated with a semi-state forestry company will be allowed to claim forestry premiums in the next forestry programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50165/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (11 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 796. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Forestry Service advertised and accepted applications for a forest-frost reconstitution scheme without having a standard operating procedure in place to deal with the applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50166/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (11 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 797. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 738 and 739 of 4 October 2022, the number of forest-frost reconstitution applications that are with his Department now; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50167/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is that definite? We have been hearing the contrary over the past two days.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: No decision has been made in the past day or two.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I do not want the Minister of State to do so. I understand that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The Department has not seen-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The CVO assured the antiparasitic stakeholders committee that he had relayed to the Minister the concerns of merchants and co-ops-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The CVO, or the chief veterinary officer. He relayed to the Minister concerns that many of the current proposals were unworkable. Has the Minister's statement that he wants solutions to this issue that will not be detrimental to the various parties involved been acknowledged within the Department? Is there a concern in the Department stemming from the submissions we have seen and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Does that mean that the Department has made a decision and that the vet-----