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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine's Response to Ash Dieback: Limerick and Tipperary Woodland Owners (25 Oct 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: No, of course not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine's Response to Ash Dieback: Limerick and Tipperary Woodland Owners (25 Oct 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank Mr. White.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Expenditure (26 Oct 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 240. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cost to his Department of outsourced ecology services for 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47140/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Expenditure (26 Oct 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 241. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the projected cost of outsourced ecology services to his Department for 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47141/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Oct 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 242. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the weekly average number of forestry licence issued across all sections by his Department to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47142/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine's Response to Ash Dieback: Limerick and Tipperary Woodland Owners (25 Oct 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What is the ideal scheme? Does Mr. White have any clue about what budget would be required?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Environmental Investigations (7 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is not every day that someone from Monaghan and someone from Galway, which, in fairness to the Deputies here, are not near Dan Brennan's farm, come together. When Dan Brennan came in, I did not know him from Adam. The words of the song "Willie McBride", "torn, battered and stained", came to my head. He has gone through hell and back with his family. When you listen to his story, it is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Environmental Investigations (7 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for giving us this time. Cattle do not go from 200 kg to 400 kg overnight. There is some reason for this. The cattle were pining away and then after a certain length of time they started thriving because a place was closed, to put it simply. You do not have to be a scientist or a vet to know that; it is weights on scales that will tell, and it is obvious when a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Environmental Investigations (7 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: In fairness UCD was not able to search for some stuff. The Minister should have a look at that and read it. It is there in black and white.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Environmental Investigations (7 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Look at the terms and conditions for what each one looked at.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Environmental Investigations (7 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Cadmium is the problem. If it cannot be investigated then there is a problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Education and Upskilling in the Agriculture Sector (8 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: First, I thank the witnesses for coming in. I thank Professor O'Mara for his innovative ideas. I contacted him two weeks ago. In fairness, he and Dr. Laurence Shalloo were quick about getting on the ball. I have a question for Teagasc. I am watching youngsters in national schools and secondary schools who are nearly brainwashed before we can get them because of how agriculture is being...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (7 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 728. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on the review requested on behalf of a person (details supplied) who is in receipt of a State pension (contributory) and,, as a result of an error, has had their qualified adult allowance stopped; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47744/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Education and Upskilling in the Agriculture Sector (8 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: There are problems. In the line of young farmers, do we even hold what we had? I look at the age of farmers on the suckler and dairy side of it. The release of farms is a problem. There is no point in saying it is not. What do we need to be doing to keep that figure up? In our local club at home, I watch how many youngsters are knocking around and born every year to see if we can keep...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Education and Upskilling in the Agriculture Sector (8 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: My theory is that people farm for roughly 50 years. With that 1,000, it gives us 50,000. We have 130,000 farmers. What does the graph show? Are we in trouble?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Education and Upskilling in the Agriculture Sector (8 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: We have the ETBs doing it as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Education and Upskilling in the Agriculture Sector (8 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What are the figures?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Education and Upskilling in the Agriculture Sector (8 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I think the message needs to be given out, and in fairness it would be very easy for me to say different in opposition, that there are a lot of good incentives for young farmers at the moment, between the young farmer's grant and the entitlements they will get. I think we need to be clear on that. In my opinion, we need to send out the message. When I started off, there was damn all. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Education and Upskilling in the Agriculture Sector (8 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am sorry for interrupting but my general-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Education and Upskilling in the Agriculture Sector (8 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: My general thinking would be that we have the converted who go into agricultural science and who go to the ploughing championships because they are from a farming background, generally. They are the youngsters who are mad to go on a bus from school to the championships but we need to get to the youngsters who are not doing agricultural science in school but are doing art or something else....