Results 2,301-2,320 of 7,978 for speaker:Michael Fitzmaurice
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agricultural Schemes: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: There was mention of €175 and something else.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agricultural Schemes: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Okay. How much is the BEEP on its own?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (9 Nov 2022) Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the Minister for coming in. I also thank his staff in Agriculture House, and I wish Mr. Conroy the best of luck in his new position. I ask the Minister to be blunt and straight with us and to give it to us as it is. There would be a lot of appreciation for that approach. To pick up on one thing with the Minister, early on he spoke about forestry. He said many more licences were...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (9 Nov 2022) Michael Fitzmaurice: Right.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (9 Nov 2022) Michael Fitzmaurice: Okay.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (9 Nov 2022) Michael Fitzmaurice: Okay, I am not going to be nit-picking. The Minister knows I have supported him regarding the new CAP. The Minister and his Department officials were in Tuam last night and I think he is in Cavan next week. The more town hall meetings that can be done the better. I would be the first to say that, and it is not popular for members of the Opposition to say this, many farmers must learn or...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (9 Nov 2022) Michael Fitzmaurice: I am sorry, it is organic. The riparian buffer zone rate is €1,500 per acre. The equivalent figure for permanent pasture is €200 but it is possible to get €300 for organic farming. It is important for farmers to know this information. I have several queries. Regarding the overseas funding budget, and I see it is in again, I understood we paid all this a few years...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (9 Nov 2022) Michael Fitzmaurice: When? How soon?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (9 Nov 2022) Michael Fitzmaurice: That is good, I thank the Minister.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (8 Nov 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 903. To ask the Minister for Health the date his Department intends to issue the €1,000 Covid-19 pandemic bonus payment to section 39 agency staff (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54110/22]
- Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: When people living beside Lough Funshinagh were being drowned out of their houses, the Minister could not apply that provision.
- Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this. I remember the song "Leaving on a Jet Plane" but now we are going to be using jet engines to try to keep the lights on. We might not agree with everything the Minister is doing but I do not think there is a person in the country who wants to see the lights going out. Any port in a storm, that is what we are left with at the moment. It is ironic...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Flooding of Lough Funshinagh: Lough Funshinagh Group (26 Oct 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the witnesses. I will not repeat everything again. We all know it. There are probably many eyes from people with different interests watching this today. It is to be noted, and Mr. Kearney might comment on this, that the proposed pipe will keep the levels at normal winter levels. It will not drain the turlough. It needs to be made clear at this meeting that people are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Flooding of Lough Funshinagh: Lough Funshinagh Group (26 Oct 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: -----that the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine would engage with the OPW in helping them in the resolution. There is a simple resolution to this and that is to finish the job that is two thirds done. In regard to the turlough, I have spoken to people in the National Parks and Wildlife Service and, I will be honest and I have said this before, if you are to go through the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Flooding of Lough Funshinagh: Lough Funshinagh Group (26 Oct 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: That will happen now and that is good. We will need certain updates that it is moving forward. It cannot stand still. It has to be driven on. One important point is that this is not just about Lough Funshinagh. This is about any part of the country, and we see it in Cork, Dublin and Connemara. In any part of the country where this crops up again, we cannot wait six or seven years to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Flooding of Lough Funshinagh: Lough Funshinagh Group (26 Oct 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: If the turlough came down to the normal level, how much of the land would be left? Will the witnesses think about the force majeureprovision?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Flooding of Lough Funshinagh: Lough Funshinagh Group (26 Oct 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: That is the winter level.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Flooding of Lough Funshinagh: Lough Funshinagh Group (26 Oct 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I second it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme (26 Oct 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the Macra representatives to what at this stage is nearly their weekly pilgrimage. The Chairman and I were at a farm walk the other day on the Carlow-Wexford border at one of these farms where everything is tracked. Something that is coming out clearly is that the figures we have, be it for a cow, a weanling, a bullock, a heifer or a bit of peatland or whatever, are not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme (26 Oct 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: One thing that needs to be said is that a lot of young farmers are looking to do the green certificate at the moment, which is encouraging. I do not think there are even enough spaces and there is a backlog. That is a good thing and is welcome. In my time, when we did the green certificate, I remember you had to be able to show one labour unit. That is a while ago, my hair will show you...