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- Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (5 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: At least the Minister of State, Deputy Calleary, is well familiar with the area. I am grateful for the opportunity to bring this motion on the nature restoration law to the Dáil. At the outset I want to make it clear that those of us who signed this motion are not against nature. Every one of us lives in nature; we promote nature; we were brought up with nature. We come from the land...
- Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (5 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank all the different speakers who have spoken, regardless of whether it was giving us stick or supporting us. I thank those who came to the House to speak in this debate. A few points need to be addressed. Let us be honest with the people out there. A regulation has no flexibility. I heard references to various areas of biodiversity loss. I have looked into the hedgerow part of...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The new agri-climate rural environment scheme, ACRES, was welcomed by many farmers. There was to be a system of a scorecard and an app that the Department had put together, especially for those in the commonage areas, for marking the different types of flowers and so on. This app has not worked properly and it was 23 days late in transferring the different portions of land across. The...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Postal Services (11 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 135. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will approve the increase for pensions and deferred pensions for members of the An Post superannuation scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33883/23]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for coming in. I note Dr. Cotter said the EPA goes by science. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I saw the EPA going to court stating, with regard to peat bogs, that the whole bog was hydrologically connected. As Dr. Cotter is aware, when a case was brought in the past few weeks and the EPA was asked for the evidence and science of it, it had none to produce even though the EPA believes in science. An ordinary person had to spend large amounts of money to show hydrologically and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: But Dr. Cotter stated several times-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The reason the EPA had-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: First of all, the problem is that the others unfortunately might not have had the large amounts of money that people are required to have in their arse pocket to spend on the science, hydrologically and ecologically, when they go into court to show what is needed. We did it on a private capacity with the national parks and it has been well verified and peer reviewed that they are not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Are all those monitored?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: When Dr. Deakin says the EPA is monitoring them, how often every year are samples taken of those 2,800?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: How many rivers are tested monthly?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: No. Just tell me how many are done monthly. That is all I want to know. What is the figure again? Is it 3,200 or-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What is the reason the other 300 are not monitored? Can Dr. Deakin explain that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: How many did Dr. Deakin say were monitored monthly?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I will ask Dr. Deakin to explain this to me because I want to get my head around it. Is it fair to say that the EPA puts the 179 river water bodies into what we will call tier 1? For what are they monitored 12 times a year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is there then a three-year test?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: That relates to the 179 water bodies. Will Dr. Deakin tell me about the other 2,721?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is that for the 2,700?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Some 2,400 are monitored.