Results 2,561-2,580 of 7,788 for speaker:Michael Fitzmaurice
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback and its Impact on the Private Forestry Sector: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I think the 15-km rule is because we have brought in the habitats directive. The EU legislation is destroying Ireland.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback and its Impact on the Private Forestry Sector: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I do not want to go down this road too much but I have looked at Germany and other places where a snail held up a fairly big factory so that is what Europe is doing to us but people do not seem to appreciate that. All I can say to Mr. White is that we will keep the pressure up. I suggest to the Chairman, and I presume the committee will back it, that we bring in representatives from the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback and its Impact on the Private Forestry Sector: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: They have to do something with them. They cannot keep looking at the trees there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback and its Impact on the Private Forestry Sector: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Mr. White is saying they will not pick it up. They have to do something because the trees are affected and will die.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback and its Impact on the Private Forestry Sector: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: So what Mr. White is saying is the monetary compensation is a waste of time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback and its Impact on the Private Forestry Sector: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Does the Chairman want me to take the Chair?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback and its Impact on the Private Forestry Sector: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Does the Chairman want to put me in there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback and its Impact on the Private Forestry Sector: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I will revert to Senator Paul Daly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback and its Impact on the Private Forestry Sector: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: You are not allowed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback and its Impact on the Private Forestry Sector: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is there not a monetary value to the stuff you are cutting?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback and its Impact on the Private Forestry Sector: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Has the group had meetings with the Department?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback and its Impact on the Private Forestry Sector: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Did it have meetings with the new director, Mr. Barry Delany?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback and its Impact on the Private Forestry Sector: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: He is the director at the forestry section in the Department.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback and its Impact on the Private Forestry Sector: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: We should note that if people are not here to defend themselves, we must be careful about what we say about them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback and its Impact on the Private Forestry Sector: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: It is okay. I am just putting that on record. Are the witnesses aware of a new policy on forestry that is to be published at the end of this week or early next week? Did they have any involvement with that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback and its Impact on the Private Forestry Sector: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Mr. White is recommending that the committee bring in Teagasc to find out what is going on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback and its Impact on the Private Forestry Sector: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I interrupted Senator Daly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback and its Impact on the Private Forestry Sector: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is Senator Daly finished?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback and its Impact on the Private Forestry Sector: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I call Deputy Ring.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback and its Impact on the Private Forestry Sector: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Deputy Ring, you have frozen. We cannot hear you. Can you hear us? Does Deputy Cahill want to come in?