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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Sector: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (17 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I am talking about the changeover from zero for the two years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Sector: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (17 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The point is taken. I agree with Mr. Dillon that a measure has been put in place. The only thing is that if one is a smaller farmer, one is walking away from it because if one goes into GLAS, one can get €5,000. I know Mr. Dillon spoke about the measures and I understand the point, but if one gets the €180 per hectare on a 15 hectare farm, one will not get to €5,000....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Sector: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (17 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Where is the 310 starting off?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Sector: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (17 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: They are going to be new now. Are they in the new system?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Sector: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (17 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: For what is the OFS2 form needed? I realise that when one gets 75% of one's payments, one has to send in the form. What is the reason for it? Does the Department subsidise the organic bodies? I asked that earlier but the delegates may have omitted to answer. As with a farmer who draws down the single farm payment, for example, why can this not be looked after by the Department? Is it...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Over the last number of years, in this country and other countries in Europe, we heard great talk about a cashless society, where everyone was moving to cards and going away from chequebooks. I know the Taoiseach is an admirer of European policy and he has bought into this idea of a cashless society. Fine Gael often talks about SMEs. They are the backbone of business across the country....
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: This is a scandalous situation that small businesses have to contend with in this country.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The reality is that if a person is building a house with €50,000 or €60,000 worth of materials, the person that supplied them, that is, the merchant or the hardware business, would pay back to the bank approximately €1,000 of the money they took in because they accepted this card.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: This is a scandalous situation. As bad as the chequebook situation was, where a person might write five, six or eight cheques and they cost approximately 70 cent each to the person that was writing them, what is happening now-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: People are being lured in by this new great card they are being given. The people who have accepted them are being robbed by the banks, with what is going on.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I ask the Taoiseach to join with me and make it very clear to businesses, while this con job is going on around the country, in the banks that we have bailed out-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: -----that people are told to continue using their chequebook-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The situation at the moment, in most places, be it in marts or in business-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: -----is that they are not accepting those cards.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Will the Taoiseach join with me and put out this warning to the Irish people?
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Everyone else talks as long.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: This is a problem that has arisen over the last two months, where banks have said to their customers, "We are moving from cheque books and we are going to give you this card". Businesses accepted those cards in good faith, believing there would be the normal charge. There is a duty on politicians to explain to businesses what is going on. We do not want to see businesses losing money...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: He means it is okay for the banks to rip off businesses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: ESB: Chairperson Designate (18 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank Ms Graham for her presentation. Like other Deputies and Senators, I would like to see the ESB drive on its apprenticeship programme. For far too long, we have neglected apprenticeships in this country. I would ask Ms Graham to pursue this programme and, where possible, to increase numbers in that regard. I read in the media recently that the ESB subsidises wind energy to the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: ESB: Chairperson Designate (18 Nov 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I would ask that ESB drive it on to ensure the creation of as many apprenticeships as possible.