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

Michael Fitzmaurice: That is not such a bad thing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Concerns for Sourcing Winter Animal Feed in Shannon Callows Area: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for coming in. It has been 15 or 20 years since I met Mr. Silke to discuss bogs and designations. Mr. Broderick spoke about this committee and I will give him a few straight truths. There is no point in waffling and saying we are great people. The first thing is that the Shannon has not been drained in 100 years. As for the ground beside it, the Callows, to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Concerns for Sourcing Winter Animal Feed in Shannon Callows Area: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: He should be de-ministered.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Concerns for Sourcing Winter Animal Feed in Shannon Callows Area: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Everyone sees it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Concerns for Sourcing Winter Animal Feed in Shannon Callows Area: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Mr. Silke is right in what he is saying, but the law is an ass at the moment, to be frank about it. All that habitat is being lost but if people try to put a machine or dredger into it, the largest window they will have is 12 weeks. They have to go through paperwork. There is a place called the Four Courts which people love going to. In the European Court of Justice judgments,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Concerns for Sourcing Winter Animal Feed in Shannon Callows Area: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: We could either go there or does this come under the nature conservation law? I do not know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Concerns for Sourcing Winter Animal Feed in Shannon Callows Area: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Ireland's MEPs voted for the nature restoration law, where that is going to cause flooding.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Concerns for Sourcing Winter Animal Feed in Shannon Callows Area: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Correct.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Concerns for Sourcing Winter Animal Feed in Shannon Callows Area: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I spoke there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Concerns for Sourcing Winter Animal Feed in Shannon Callows Area: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I will give Mr. Ryan a clear definition. Under the habitats directive, the definition of an emergency is that it has to be ongoing. Sorry for interrupting Deputy Nolan but Mr. Ryan just asked me what that was. The problem is that if there is a flood and the water levels go down, it is not an emergency, whereas if it is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Concerns for Sourcing Winter Animal Feed in Shannon Callows Area: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: My apologies, Deputy Nolan.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: Staying on education, I looked at the numbers going back over the years and there were some years when there were low numbers. I think there were 1,700 or 1,800 doing the likes of the green certificate. What does that equate to down the road in farming? Are we holding our own? Dr. Butler mentioned the 50 years of EU membership. The numbers of farmers have gone backwards since we joined....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Over recent weeks we have seen various Ministers, including the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, our Taoiseach and our Tánaiste in different parts of the country where there has been serious flooding, where people have lost their businesses or are in deep trouble and where householders have been flooded out of it, never to get insurance again. We have seen this in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The people right around this country-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: -----need honesty because that is nine years on the go. Tell that to the people in Midleton and other places.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The Minister is correct in everything he has said. I am not having a go at the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donovan. I am talking about legislation. The Minister mentioned the people of Lough Funshinagh. There is a steering group for those people. This steering group looks like it is going to sit for another three or four years with the way it is going. The water is coming. You cannot...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 365. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine given that at a recent forest service training day in Killaloe, County Clare, the forest service representative stated that the new protocol or procedure for assessing and measuring peat-oregano mineral soil was trialled on 25 sites across Ireland prior to it being implemented as department policy and procedure, if he will detail,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 366. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will organise for the industry to visit the 25 sites, or a portion of same, trialled by the forest service of his Department in the assessment of the new protocol-procedure for assessing and measuring peat-oregano mineral soil for training purposes, as the full results of the 25 sites are known to his Department and will make...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 367. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, following the issuance of an afforestation technical approval for afforestation and a corresponding financial approval, and subsequent to ground cultivation taking place on a peat-oregano mineral soil site, that species selection needs to change from one forest type to another due to peat-oregano mineral soil depth, if this is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 368. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to confirm as per a recent forest service training event in Killaloe, County Clare, on the new forestry programme, a department official stated that if peat depth is greater than 30 cm after cultivation is completed on a site that has received a valid technical and financial approval, that foresters should convert to another forest...