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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dangerous Dog Breeds and Sheep Worrying: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I know but they are not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dangerous Dog Breeds and Sheep Worrying: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Will the Department look at that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dangerous Dog Breeds and Sheep Worrying: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes, but will the Department look at the problem?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dangerous Dog Breeds and Sheep Worrying: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Generally, ewes are heavy in lamb from January-February until May if it is a mountain area. That is four of five months when it is deadly dangerous if there are dogs. Even if ewes see a dog while being heavy in lamb, they can turn over. It is deadly dangerous. The Department might look at that. I want to keep going because I want to let Deputy Carthy back in and we could have votes....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dangerous Dog Breeds and Sheep Worrying: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Laboratories are able to test all calves that are born for bovine viral diarrhoea, BVD and the beef data and genomics programme, BDGP, will come in. There is no reason we cannot do this if we are committed to doing it. Tracing a dog from a sample is doable. It is also possible to do it for horses. We must make this foolproof. The day is gone of a dog running around without a microchip...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dangerous Dog Breeds and Sheep Worrying: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: One of the witnesses might want to include my points. There is no point in making points in here all our lives and nothing happening.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the Acting Chairman for accommodating me, as a non-member of the committee. I welcome the witnesses from the RSA. A year or 18 months ago, I asked during Leaders' Questions about the situation whereby 100 driving test instructors were being let go. Has the current difficulty, with large numbers of young people looking to get their licence, stemmed from that? Why were those...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: We do not want something said here that will blow back at the witnesses. Realistically, when will waiting times be brought back to normal?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I come from a rural constituency. I am sure that, like me, many Deputies have noticed an elderly cohort of people who have no licences. They previously had provisional licences because they might only have been driving tractors. They find the process cumbersome. They are not able - one time it was jumping into the back of a bus, but the testing centres have buildings now - to answer...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank Mr. Waide for that and ask him to come back to me on it. While no one wants to talk about it, this is a reality in rural areas, especially when it comes to tractors. My final question relates to NCT. It may be of help to the RSA. In addition to cars, there are trucks and vans that must pass what was formerly the Department of the Environment test. There are competent mechanics...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the Minister and his officials for attending. I have a couple of questions on the TB budget that was laid out. My understanding is there is not yet an agreement with the farmer organisations regarding the new testing regimes. Will that budget change?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Michael Fitzmaurice: I will address the beef and sheep part of it. In light of the sheep sector having had what was probably one of its toughest winters, and it appears that since many hoggets will stay on before they are out of the system spring lamb may not be as attractive, is there a possibility that some extra sectoral budget for sheep will be brought in? There was a scheme previously for the slaughter of...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Michael Fitzmaurice: Is the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme, TAMS, grant rising to €90,000? Is that the limit?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Michael Fitzmaurice: If a person is putting up a shed, are the solar panels separate? If a young farmer is putting up a shed and drawing 40% or 60% of the €90,000 and then decides to go solar, is that a different thing? Is it included in that €90,000?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Michael Fitzmaurice: That is what I wondered.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Michael Fitzmaurice: That is good. On the agri-climate rural environment scheme, ACRES, which the Minister outlined, is there a budget left for the 46,000 or 48,000 people? Am I correct in saying we had 46,000, 48,000 or 50,000 people at one stage in the previous scheme and they are all out of the scheme now? It is not that we are not used to having the guts of at least 50,000 people on the scheme. I welcome...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes, I know that.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Michael Fitzmaurice: With regard to the figure of 46,000 people, we used to always be roughly around 50,000, give or take a few thousand, in schemes such as the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme, GLAS, energy efficiency obligation scheme, EEOS, or whatever. Where the Minister was looking for 30,000 or 60,000 more people, will he be allowing 20,000 in the next round? What way will that be done? If...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Michael Fitzmaurice: I presume the Minister agrees we are going to spend damn all money this year on forestry. By the time we get the go ahead, first of all, an application has to be put in. There is a headline figure of €1.3 billion. We have to make an application for state aid, which will not be for another month and then it could take between two and eight months. Let us say it takes four or five...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Michael Fitzmaurice: People cannot apply today.