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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Rising Veterinary Costs on Dog Ownership and Surrenders and Abandoned Dogs: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: To dog homes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Rising Veterinary Costs on Dog Ownership and Surrenders and Abandoned Dogs: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What I am asking is does anyone know what the councils get as well?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Rising Veterinary Costs on Dog Ownership and Surrenders and Abandoned Dogs: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: No matter how we go, there is about €14 million or €15 million being spent between different Departments, between grants the Minister gives, and what is given to local authorities. This is to solve something that should not be, to be quite frank about it. This is for the simple reason that when one gets a dog, one is responsible for it. When one buys a car, there is a tax...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Rising Veterinary Costs on Dog Ownership and Surrenders and Abandoned Dogs: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes but it is corporates in the UK, that is what I am on about. I am not on about corporates here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Rising Veterinary Costs on Dog Ownership and Surrenders and Abandoned Dogs: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am not saying that. I am saying that to the corporates in the UK, it was manna from heaven. With regard to the vets, in fairness to any vet - and we have a few dogs at home ourselves - any time you go to the vet, they will tell you before they start. If there is a problem and an operation to be done, they will give a fairly good guide as to what it will cost. You can decide then, as Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Rising Veterinary Costs on Dog Ownership and Surrenders and Abandoned Dogs: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: When the dog is brought to the vet, they get their vaccines etc. Over the last five years, in my opinion - and I often ask how much that costs - it has nearly been the same price over the last four or five years, bar you are going for something big like an operation. That is going into a different category. It is like horses. There is now a hospital for horses. It is going to cost more,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Rising Veterinary Costs on Dog Ownership and Surrenders and Abandoned Dogs: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is he from north Tipperary?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: An Rialálaí Agraibhia: Engagement with Chairperson Designate (6 Dec 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Like Senator Paul Daly, I wish Mr. Healy and Ms Lenehan the best of luck. As the Senator said, Mr. Healy has been in front of the committee many times and he is a Galway man like myself. Ironically, when Mr. Healy and Ms Lenehan were talking to Senator Paul Daly, this week's price of cattle came up on my phone. I was looking through it and I saw that there was not 5 cent between it and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: An Rialálaí Agraibhia: Engagement with Chairperson Designate (6 Dec 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Do the witnesses believe the legislation is there so that if they felt there was a cartel, they could go in and investigate that?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (5 Dec 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 530. To ask the Minister for Health when building works will commence on the planned 50-bed building at the Sacred Heart Hospital, Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53362/23]

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I want to thank the officials for the briefing they gave us on the Bill via Zoom a week or two ago. Planning in this country is in a total mess. We can bring in all of the legislation we want but at the end of the day it depends on what planning authority one is dealing with because there is no consistency in the planning system. It also depends on who is the director of planning and...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (7 Dec 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 278. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments will commence for ACRES; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54233/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (7 Dec 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 289. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to detail the specific section of the specific policy document that specified a maximum peat depth of 50 cm applied to the afforestation scheme in the last forestry programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54368/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: A few weeks ago the Tánaiste was taking Leaders' Questions and I brought up a difficult case in County Roscommon of a youngster who has autism. He basically rips 20 T-shirts a week, takes out everything from the fridge at night, and can go out and damage the car. His father was at his wit's end and actually lost his job over it. His father was looking for residential care for his...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What the Taoiseach has said does not give great hope for those parents who are waiting at the moment. In fact, I know of a parent today who had to go to the other end of the country to pay for a consultation and a diagnosis. It is not acceptable to have to travel 120 or 130 miles to try to get a diagnosis and to pay for it themselves rather than the State helping them out. While it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: First, I thank the witnesses for coming in. I will be quick and I ask for short, quick answers. There is a lot of confusion about the SCEP. If I have an enclosed herd and my cows were four or five star and they came down to three stars, am I correct that nothing changes while I am in SCEP? Is that right or wrong?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Right. That is for the cow. If I have an enclosed herd and I bought a four or five star bull, which bulled the cows last summer, and I have calves coming forward, even if my cows have been reduced to two stars, and my bull has been reduced to two stars, are the heifer calves coming forward that I hold on my farm eligible under SCEP at this time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: They are not eligible for the person going forward in the SCEP.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is it correct that if I am selling them they are not eligible either?