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- Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the budget. I welcome the increases for pensioners and people with disabilities. They probably need more, to be frank, but I have to at least acknowledge it. I welcome the increase in the carer's supports thresholds. The ideal scenario is that if someone packs up a job to mind another person, regardless of what their partner earns or has, it saves the...
- Tillage Sector: Statements (15 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: We have already gone five times.
- Tillage Sector: Statements (15 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The agriculture committee has gone a few times.
- Tillage Sector: Statements (15 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this. Whether people come from an area that engaged in tillage, it is awfully important. Whether people are in sucklers, sheep, dairy or whatever, the people who grow the tillage to get the straw are ferociously important. We have a decision to make. Let us look at the prices this year. What is being given under the protein aid scheme is a good...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (14 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 732. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a farmer with a TB restricted herd can sell cattle directly to a controlled finishing unit with no conditions attached, regardless of whether they are inside or outside the 30-day TB test window (details supplied); if marts will be allowed to operate under the same conditions as a farmer selling direct to a feedlot; and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for coming in. I have been on farms where, basically, a number of people have been on this together, for example, at Boyle and Ballinlough, at Murphy's in Athenry and at Barlow's in Glinsk. It is great what it has done. I cannot get my head around one thing. I am trying to fathom it. Is the Leitrim body the overarching body for all of Ireland or are there...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is €400,000 the total it gets, or are there other avenues through which it gets money?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: That is the network.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: How many people are involved in that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: How many people are directly employed for that €400,000?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What percentage do the farmers get?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I heard the figure of €80.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: They may have to go and pick somebody up as well. I think farmers should be well looked after in this regard.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What about the €100,000 that Social Farming Ireland is looking for now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I have seen it in action. I have been at places around the constituency when recognition is given to a group of people who are attending, such as youngsters with disabilities. It is a great system. I just wanted to establish the figures. Kerry is looking for €100,000 more. Is Social Farming Ireland funded enough?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Does Social Farming Ireland distribute all the money?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I heard the representatives from Kerry say they got local money from X, Y and Z. Is that in addition to what Social Farming Ireland does?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Does the Kerry group get money from Leitrim?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: They are separate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The farmer gets nothing in Kerry.