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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: Yes.

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: Is it voluntary?

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: Is Ms O'Sullivan's organisation still part of 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: Who does the rewetting of the bogs and all 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: It is voluntary whereas the new one is a regulation.

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: One thing that needs to be clarified is that the State can pick up much of it. If we are talking about 800,000 ha or 800,000 acres, whichever it is, Bord na Móna has only a quarter of that, no matter how one looks at it. It has 80,000 ha. If you were to do every bit of it, which you will not, it would be a quarter of the overall amount. It goes back to the 20% we heard about in the...

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 be honest with farmers. From everything I have seen, this is going to be like catching someone by the neck and telling them that they are going to sign up to this or else they will not get the single farm payment. I worry this is where it going.

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 is Mr. Roddy's reading of 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: Are there concerns about the movement of animal medicines across the Border? In the line of competition, did any of the organisations write to the competition authority about the way they are promoting it at the moment. What is the witnesses' view? Every one of them has interaction with the Department. What is their read on it? We understood it was progressing well until probably a week...

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 thought it was a great idea. Did any of the witnesses come across that yet? I do not know where the veterinary bodies are on that. They might or might not like it. We will hear that next week. The Department is not doing a lot about it yet. These are things that could help resolve issues. Did the witnesses hear anything on that? The witnesses talked about next year being a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 578. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will have his autism spectrum disorder assessment carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52723/22]

Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this. I remember the song "Leaving on a Jet Plane" but now we are going to be using jet engines to try to keep the lights on. We might not agree with everything the Minister is doing but I do not think there is a person in the country who wants to see the lights going out. Any port in a storm, that is what we are left with at the moment. It is ironic...

Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: When people living beside Lough Funshinagh were being drowned out of their houses, the Minister could not apply that provision.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Flooding of Lough Funshinagh: Lough Funshinagh Group (26 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the witnesses. I will not repeat everything again. We all know it. There are probably many eyes from people with different interests watching this today. It is to be noted, and Mr. Kearney might comment on this, that the proposed pipe will keep the levels at normal winter levels. It will not drain the turlough. It needs to be made clear at this meeting that people are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Flooding of Lough Funshinagh: Lough Funshinagh Group (26 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: -----that the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine would engage with the OPW in helping them in the resolution. There is a simple resolution to this and that is to finish the job that is two thirds done. In regard to the turlough, I have spoken to people in the National Parks and Wildlife Service and, I will be honest and I have said this before, if you are to go through the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Flooding of Lough Funshinagh: Lough Funshinagh Group (26 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: That will happen now and that is good. We will need certain updates that it is moving forward. It cannot stand still. It has to be driven on. One important point is that this is not just about Lough Funshinagh. This is about any part of the country, and we see it in Cork, Dublin and Connemara. In any part of the country where this crops up again, we cannot wait six or seven years to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Flooding of Lough Funshinagh: Lough Funshinagh Group (26 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: If the turlough came down to the normal level, how much of the land would be left? Will the witnesses think about the force majeureprovision?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Flooding of Lough Funshinagh: Lough Funshinagh Group (26 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: That is the winter level.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Flooding of Lough Funshinagh: Lough Funshinagh Group (26 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I second it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme (26 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the Macra representatives to what at this stage is nearly their weekly pilgrimage. The Chairman and I were at a farm walk the other day on the Carlow-Wexford border at one of these farms where everything is tracked. Something that is coming out clearly is that the figures we have, be it for a cow, a weanling, a bullock, a heifer or a bit of peatland or whatever, are not...