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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target and General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: One thing that needs to be clarified is that the State can pick up much of it. If we are talking about 800,000 ha or 800,000 acres, whichever it is, Bord na Móna has only a quarter of that, no matter how one looks at it. It has 80,000 ha. If you were to do every bit of it, which you will not, it would be a quarter of the overall amount. It goes back to the 20% we heard about in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target and General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: We have to be honest with farmers. From everything I have seen, this is going to be like catching someone by the neck and telling them that they are going to sign up to this or else they will not get the single farm payment. I worry this is where it going.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target and General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What is Mr. Roddy's reading of that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target and General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Are there concerns about the movement of animal medicines across the Border? In the line of competition, did any of the organisations write to the competition authority about the way they are promoting it at the moment. What is the witnesses' view? Every one of them has interaction with the Department. What is their read on it? We understood it was progressing well until probably a week...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target and General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thought it was a great idea. Did any of the witnesses come across that yet? I do not know where the veterinary bodies are on that. They might or might not like it. We will hear that next week. The Department is not doing a lot about it yet. These are things that could help resolve issues. Did the witnesses hear anything on that? The witnesses talked about next year being a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fuel Prices (18 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 282. To ask the Minister for Finance the percentage of each of the different costs which make up the price the consumer pays for petrol, diesel and agricultural diesel at the pumps; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51506/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (18 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 457. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the Junior Certificate results will be released to those persons who sat their Junior Certificate in June 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51613/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Industrial Relations (18 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 744. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made in getting a review (details supplied) up and running; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51422/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (18 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 745. To ask the Minister for Health the number of radiation therapists who have been recruited by the HSE in each of the years 2010 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51423/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (18 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 864. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to any semi-state body connected with forestry that is putting together a special vehicle to draw down funding from the premium system on forestry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51514/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: First of all, I thank the witnesses for coming in. I have a few questions. In my opinion, there is a cult in media that does not understand what we are talking about. It was interesting to hear Mr. Neenan. I would know a good bit about bogs and I learned from him there. Did Growing Media Ireland respond to thejournal.ie? I saw this investigative journalist telling us about everything...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The usual stuff.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is substitute consent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 2030 will nearly have landed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I have one question to put back to Mr. Mahon. I am fairly familiar with this subject. The EU is good at saying responsibility lies in Ireland, and I am not defending anyone here, above all things. I was over there as well, however, and I was told it was the member states that decide this, that and the other. The people in Brussels are good at telling us this. One directive is causing all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Did it print it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I have one question. Is it 15 ha at a certain height? I ask this because there will be white peat on top, then brown peat and finally black peat be reached. In some bogs, it could be 1 m down and in others it could be 2 m down. It works, however. What I am trying to put together is whether one bit will work for horticulture and the other bit will suit the mushroom growers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is brus.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I ask the witnesses to tell me about the two different planning types. My understanding is that if 30 ha are hydrologically separated, basically with a deep drain around the land as far as the lough, that would mean those hectares would come under different working arrangements than a situation where 30 ha of land is stuck onto a neighbour's holding of 20 ha or 30 ha, or more, like a high...