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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord Bia: Chairperson Designate (10 Apr 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome Mr. Murrin and wish him the best of luck. I was listening to his submission. He has a fair bit of experience and knowledge of the whole industry. I would echo the Chairman. If there is one thing I would ask Mr. Murrin to do it is on the calf and dairy side. There is rocky water ahead. We need to make sure they are smoothed for all the farmers. I do not know how much Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord Bia: Chairperson Designate (10 Apr 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: If you talk to farmers, you will hear they fear getting in with Bord Bia. Bord Bia will be controlling Ireland's new PGI status, which is good. If we are producing a premium product, can Bord Bia envisage a premium price? If we are producing a premium product, why is there a clause in the terms and conditions concerning Bord Bia? A calf born to a suckler cow in Ireland will be out for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord Bia: Chairperson Designate (10 Apr 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: That is less than 50% of the farmers of Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord Bia: Chairperson Designate (10 Apr 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: That is no problem because I understand Mr. Murrin is only entering his position. I would have thought the matter would have been considered. The EU is considering how to eliminate paperwork for small farmers as much as possible, so you would imagine there would be an exemption for farmers with up to 20 suckler calves to keep the small family farm on the road. That is one matter I ask the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord Bia: Chairperson Designate (10 Apr 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I apologise for interrupting. Is Mr. Murrin saying that the Department of agriculture lays down all the terms and conditions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord Bia: Chairperson Designate (10 Apr 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Just to fill Mr. Murrin in on some of them before he goes any further, in the line of the anaerobic digesters, Teagasc gave support and the Department had no problem. It was only Bord Bia that seemed to have a problem. It did not seem to be the other two that were laying down the terms and conditions. I do not want to walk Mr. Murrin into something.

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Apr 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the nature fund. Luckily for Irish farmers, the nature restoration law is being opposed because it has not been thought out. It is a damnable day, one I never thought I would see, that I would be thanking someone in Italy, Poland or, I think, Türkiye or wherever that Orbán fella is, for not supporting the nature restoration law being applied....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: This will be a bit different and not the usual spat at Leaders' Questions. I thank Deputies Naughten and Kerrane. We are here as Roscommon-Galway TDs, joined together and above all we are here united with the people of Lough Funshinagh in County Roscommon. The Tánaiste will be aware of the situation with Lough Funshinagh in County Roscommon, where the water is getting higher and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes, I know all this.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It will take you to sign it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Friends of no one.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Thanks for the reply but the facts are we do not have next winter or next autumn. This is now. Roscommon County Council was brought to court on emergency legislation the council has, a totally different thing from the habitats directive under emergency law. Under emergency law, a Government has a right if it sees an emergency, and this is an emergency. When the generators needed to go in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: You do it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: We do not have time.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Talk to the Attorney General and the National Parks and Wildlife Service-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: -----because that emergency legislation, you can bring it in.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank you for your answers but ask you to please talk to them and get it in on Tuesday.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord Bia: Chairperson Designate (10 Apr 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Bord Bia might come back to me on those few points.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (9 Apr 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 18. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a decision will be made in the application for foreign birth registration by a person (details supplied), who applied in August 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13981/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Horse Racing Industry (9 Apr 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 575. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 173 and 174 of 6 March 2024, the amount of funding provided by either Horse Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland to equestrian related bodies in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023; under what programmes and for what purposes, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14823/24]