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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: We had to do a lot of this stuff in trying to show we were not having an adverse effect in the line of the habitats directive and all that. Had our guests hydrology and ecology reports? I heard a scientist saying once that a bog was like a paper bag and that if you filled it with water and put one hole in it, the whole bog was gone. It was the most wrong statement ever made. I saw...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Okay. In fairness to everybody on the committee, most of us are living in the country and we understand it but there is a block there. I am not going to come in here and tell the organisations we know how to solve it. The only way it will be solved is to haul in one of the chiefs who did the programme for Government and tell them this cannot keep going the way it is because there are too...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: God help ye if ye are.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Mr. Mahon might tell us what an operator has to do in some other country in Europe, compared with here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Okay. I thank the Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: In what I have seen before, you have to be able show that something is not hydrologically linked to the other thing. That is a hydrologist and an ecologist. We have worked with RPS before on bogs. We had to show that, as well as doing the screening, the appropriate EIA and all the usual palaver that we have to do now. I have seen it before, where a drain or a ditch was rounded that was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: No one can justify peat coming from another country. That is the first thing. The fact of the matter is that horticulture, the mushroom industry and domestic turf cutting do not use even 1% of the bogs of Ireland. People go on about re-wetting and sequestering carbon but it would take approximately 50 years to do Bord na Móna's holdings and others that are not being used. We are not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: To be clear, when bogs are separated, certain tests have to be done on them. There is stuff that has to be one. A pipe is put in the ground to allow water to upwell and determine the depth of lock and so on. It is provable. Do the witnesses understand? What I am trying to find is a solution to get things moving. We need to give an exemption so that people do not have to go through all...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fuel Prices (18 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 282. To ask the Minister for Finance the percentage of each of the different costs which make up the price the consumer pays for petrol, diesel and agricultural diesel at the pumps; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51506/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (18 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 457. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the Junior Certificate results will be released to those persons who sat their Junior Certificate in June 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51613/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Industrial Relations (18 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 744. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made in getting a review (details supplied) up and running; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51422/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (18 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 745. To ask the Minister for Health the number of radiation therapists who have been recruited by the HSE in each of the years 2010 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51423/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (18 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 864. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to any semi-state body connected with forestry that is putting together a special vehicle to draw down funding from the premium system on forestry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51514/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target and General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee. It is a good idea for the committee to hold a few meetings because we cannot cover all the topics we need to cover in one. Earlier when someone asked a question, Ms O'Sullivan and Mr. Condon seemed to be coming from two different angles. What is Ms O'Sullivan's response to Mr. Condon's statement on Articles 4 and 9?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target and General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What should not be under it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target and General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: We have to realise that many people with peaty-type land or peatlands on mountains in Donegal, Connemara or wherever else have to make a living from that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target and General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What does Mr. Condon think about that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target and General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I have a question for the witnesses. The night I had the debacle with the Minister, Deputy Ryan, spoke about phase one of land use being done, which I did not even know was done. Phase two will be finished in 18 months. What is the witnesses' interpretation of that? I would like them to answer as quickly as they can because I want to try to ask as many questions as I can?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target and General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: We got a few emails. Farm organisations will have been involved in the Life project. My understanding is that is voluntary. Is every farm organisation still involved in it or are they out of it? That is a question for every organisation. We got an email today from an MEP which we were talking about before the meeting started. There is a dispute about the information we were given from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target and General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: No, I refer to the Life project - the Atlantic one or the rewilding one.