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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: At the moment if a herd breaks down, to get rid of cattle, they can be sent to feed lots. Is that right?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: My understanding is that a feed lot is not always a shed. It is where there is double fencing on either side. What is to stop a badger from roaming in there to them and roaming out?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: There is more stipulation on an ordinary farmer than on a feed lot. Am I right or wrong?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes, there are, a fence each side. That is the stipulation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Farmers are also being asked to fence off setts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: And farmers. Everyone thinks a feed lot is a shed. It is not. It is also land with double fencing each side. That is the regulation and that is what they do. I am not saying a word to them. Badgers cannot be stopped from travelling there and travelling somewhere else, but the Department says infected cattle can go there, but nowhere else.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: This clock has gone arseways altogether, because I had four minutes a while ago and now I have 58 seconds.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: No, fair is fair. In the line of proposals, I have heard this from a few people. Are the paddocks where a lot of cows are together showing more infections? A "Yes" or "No", please, because my time is running out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: We are hearing from different Department officials that where there are a lot of cattle together, they are breathing-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: That is all I wanted to know. Farmers are getting sick of this. When there is a breakdown in an area, we hear about a severe or less severe interpretation. We put the gear into them and it shows they have gone down or not. Why, then, are there so many false positives on this blood test? My understanding is that there are asymptomatic cattle that never show up, but there is a UCD test....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Someone from UCD came out to a farmer near me and said to the farmer that the person was doing this test.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is it true to say that the blood test is giving a lot of false positives?

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I wrote them all down. I think it was near the end.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The Department says, on movements of cattle, that the next farmer that gets an animal will have to test it again. Is that right or wrong? Is this going on at the forum?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is an impossible question. Dr. Barrett cannot answer it.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (19 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 343. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a HAS application submitted by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33446/25]

Legislative and Structural Reforms to Accelerate Housing Delivery: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I move: That Dáil Éireann: acknowledges that: — the persistent shortfall in the delivery of housing, particularly social, affordable, and cost-rental units, constitutes a structural failure of public policy; — successive Governments have fallen short of their own housing delivery targets, and a significant proportion of zoned, developable land remains idle due to...

Legislative and Structural Reforms to Accelerate Housing Delivery: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank Mark Nolan and John Campbell for helping us out. I thank each of the speakers, whether they spoke for or against the motion. I thank them for spending the time. I will address a few of the issues raised by the Minister. Three years ago I came into the Dáil and today RTÉ is reporting that we are now in trouble. To build a house, a site has to be dug out. Stone and...

Legislative and Structural Reforms to Accelerate Housing Delivery: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The Minister spoke about different reports and bodies being set up and whatever. The bottom line is that if people do their job and are given the utilities, instruments and simplifications, everyone could do their jobs without putting layers upon layers. All we are doing, if we get a housing tsar or whatever, is getting another person to blame. We will say they should have done their job....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: First, in the line of ANC, everything changed with the new CAP, including ANC, BISS, CRISS, the eco scheme, sheep, calf and arable. When you look at the Department units led by Francis or Thomas or Margaret - Pat is in inspections and Josephine is on TAMS - we had not one problem. Okay, we would have to wait for a few weeks but if you picked up a phone, it was sorted. The one observation I...