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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Will the overall CAP budget in Europe be bigger? Will Ireland's budget be bigger to accommodate us if we are going to have to tweak it? Will we have pillar 1 and pillar 2? Will it be the same system?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: If we do not, will the Government step in and make sure it is propped up?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Does the Minister or the Council have a veto on it if agreement is not reached?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Does the Minister have a veto?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Does the Council have a veto?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: When the CAP has been agreed, does the Minister have a veto on the Council?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: GAEC 2 is done and in. Is that fair to say? It would be advisable to do a video on GAEC 2 to explain in detail to farmers about where shoring or drainage is done, because there are many questions. The Minister is minimising it a bit. Last year, if I was out in a digger pulling a shore and a Department man came in, he could not do anything to me. This year, if I was pulling the same...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes, but it has been three years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I know that. I am not blaming the Minister.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Then we will go-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Chair?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: May I ask the Minister a question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Or one of his officials behind him. Is it acceptable that, as a public representative, I rang three times in this area and was not rung back but got a press of a button every time? That is not acceptable for any TD to get, so-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes, the Minister does. I am talking about the senior official behind him.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Willie Murphy was excellent, by the way.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: When will the farmer be paid this? After two years' or three years' waiting?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Time up.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The clock is going.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The Tánaiste is well aware that a few months ago, at the end of January, there was a devastating storm in the west midlands and the north west. In fairness, the Minister, Deputy Calleary, and the Minister of State, Deputy Michael Healy-Rae, are well familiar with the devastation that has been caused. I know the Minister, Deputy O'Donovan, has had meetings with the different...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the Tánaiste for his reply. I know a small bit about civil engineering work, and it will be a miracle. The photo I sent was taken this morning. If all the infrastructure will be in place by 3 June, with Monday a bank holiday, I would be amazed. I hope the Tánaiste is right and that what Eir told the Government is correct but I do not think it will come true. I ask the...