Results 181-200 of 8,268 for speaker:Michael Fitzmaurice
- 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-----
- 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?
- 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]
- Antisocial Behaviour: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion and commend Deputy Gogarty and his staff on putting it together. It often baffles me that when we had 9,000 and 10,000 gardaí on the streets or in the total force, there were local Garda stations. If anyone said they were not doing much, they knew everything that was going on in the area. They did not have to be taking out the...
- Migration: Statements (18 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this matter. First, I wish the Minister the best of luck.
- Migration: Statements (18 Sep 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I do not think I was in front of you before this so the best of luck. The reality of immigration is that, at the moment in Ireland, we are building 30,000 houses. There is a huge shortage of houses. Look at the numbers of people who are coming in both through legal and illegal immigration. We are scratching our heads when people want to come to work. Let us bear in mind, we need people...