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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I wish Ms McPhillips the best of luck in her new role. She has a tough job ahead, with all of the different things, but she is well-seasoned, in that she knows the job inside out, so the best of luck. On Mercosur, I want to say I am opposed to it, unlike Senator Daly, for this simple reason. If we look at the backstops that have been put into it, the so-called cushions, the first thing is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I imagine it would be 1% or 2% and when we talk about farmers in Brazil being audited, it is going to be like a fly on a wall. To be quite frank, it is going to be the very minimum. On the backstop, am I correct in saying that they are talking about basically a 10% drop in European meat prices before they put a brake on it? However, my understanding is, and correct me if I am wrong on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It can be 9% for five years in a row, which is 45%, and there is nothing we can do about it, to put it simply.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: From my understanding it is yearly on the price. Regarding the tonnage coming in at the moment with the tariff that is on it, am I correct in saying that tariff would be lowered completely, along with the 50,000 extra tonnes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: In fairness, the Department has been tic-tacing with Europe on the Mercosur deal. Will it be down to a vote in the Parliament and the Council of Ministers? The way it is looking at the moment, I want to call it out straight. My reading of it is that if France gets more money, Italy will throw in the towel and the veto is gone with the Lisbon treaty and all of that. It looks like it will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Sorry for interrupting, but am I correct in saying that by doing that split, they have now eliminated the national parliaments from having a vote?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: When the Department is tic-tacing with them, who is allowing them to split this deal? Does a Council of Ministers not block them, or is it von der Leyen or is it the Commissioner or who?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: So unelected bureaucrats have proposed this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: They are not MEPs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Has Ms McPhillips ever seen this done before?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What does that mean? Is that the ministers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Voting against or abstaining?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is either that or then it goes to the Parliament, is that it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: That is not correct. If it drops 9%-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: In fairness, if it drops 9%, you are not-----

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Invasive Species Policy (23 Sep 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 378. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Statutory Instrument No. 374 of 2024, European Union (invasive Alien Species) Regulations 2024, are retrospective to before the date of the statutory instrument or S.I.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49931/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Sales (23 Sep 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 510. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider a review of his Departments approach to online restricted herd sales, in order that marts are allowed to operate on the same terms as private sales to CFUs; if he will move to 60 days; if so, when (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49868/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Nitrates Derogation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Who keeps track of that?

Situation in Gaza: Statements (1 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the opportunity to speak in this debate. When we were growing up, long before we were in politics, we looked at the news at night and saw the United Nations and said to ourselves, God they are powerful men in suits. We looked at the G7 or the G8 - whatever you want to call it - and said, my God, they are going to solve the problems of the world. To look at the atrocities going on...

Investment in Sport and Sporting Infrastructure: Statements (1 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Sports capital grants have done great things in small communities right around the country. I remember playing football and togging out in places they would not tog out in nowadays. It is incredible what it has done. With the population increasing and different sports coming into play, more money should be put in to attract young people to get more of them involved in sport. The budgets...