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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What was that last sentence?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Does Mr. Price not believe people should eat meat? Is that what he is saying? Does he think we should be using the grain to eat and not giving it to animals?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Should methane not be treated in a totally different way to CO2? Should it be counted in a totally different way? One is counted in parts per million, for example.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Mr. Price talked about some countries that grow their own grain. At the moment, some countries are in difficulty, while the likes of vegetable growers in north County Dublin are going out of business because they could not sell their vegetables. With regard to EU food policy, does Mr. Price believe countries need to have more self-sufficiency? What is his view on that? Countries were...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I want to bring in Deputy Ring on the theme I brought up on Leaders' Questions regarding legislation.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am asking the Minister whether he and his Government will intervene with the ESB and Bord na Móna to bring a bit of common sense to the situation and bring some of these so-called directors back to ground?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the Minister for what he has said. I acknowledge the work by the Departments of Social Protection and Enterprise, Trade and Employment. We are moving to phase 2 on this issue and I recognise the point about the receiver process. Is it not ironic, however, that the ESB was able to bring down two Northern contractors to look at finishing the job? The job at the moment is standing,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: -----down to the Owenwinny wind farm, while the contractors down there are owed €4 million. There is a retention fund and I know what retention is. I saw the contract, to be quite frank, and if I was a receiver I would worry. I put it to the Minister that someone needs to talk to the CEO of the ESB to get him back to realism in order that the contractors in the west of Ireland and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: At the close of business last night Deputies Conway-Walsh, Calleary and Ring raised the problems in Mayo in regard to the Oweninny wind farm. The reason Deputy Ring is beside me is we are standing in solidarity with the people who have worked on that wind farm installing up to 31 turbines, three or four of which remain to be installed. There are contractors in Mayo who are owed €1.3...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 160. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when an application for permission to remain in the State by a person (details supplied) will be processed, given that the application was submitted in October 2019; the reason for the delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15138/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for joining us. Mr. Breen spoke about the stock of 2,000 tonnes of peat. With the best will in the world, 45,000 to 50,000 tonnes are used in Ireland per year. Even if 50% is added to that 2,000 tonnes in some way, would it be fair to say we will have just 8% to 9% of what is required in Ireland for the year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What does Mr. Breen see filling the vacuum for the other 85%? I am going by the figures he has mentioned. I am talking about what happens when someone is not dealing with somebody. Peat is different. For example, smaller peat producers have different markets. Does it look like it will be imported? If you have someone else buying something from you, you will not head down the road and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Does Bord na Móna have enough peat in store for briquettes up to 2024, which is the date mentioned by Mr. Breen? What is the total peat Bord na Móna has around the country, bad, good or indifferent, in cubes or in tonnage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Mr. Breen spoke earlier about employees. How much of a drop has there been in direct employees working on a full-time basis, say from 2015 to 2022?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Many people are contacting us. Some of us went to a meeting yesterday. I refer to people who are renting turf. I know that one place has an agreement with Bord na Móna. My understanding is that Bord na Móna is willing to talk to communities. There were agreements to talk to communities in relation to turf cutting. Is that correct? If a proposal is put to Bord na Móna in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I did not ask the legal position. I know the legal position. I will repeat the question I asked. We were told previously that there were agreements going back. I have unearthed two such agreements, where affidavits are being done. Those communities are willing to get together to buy a small portion. These are small portions; they are not anything massive. Is Bord na Móna willing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I understand that fully. To be clear, I am not questioning the legal position. I am talking about cases in which there are agreements and in which the community is willing to buy out a small section in order that it will not belong to Bord na Móna from then on. Is the company willing to sit down with communities, where there are agreements, to resolve the issues? It is a minimal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am asking a question that arises from a meeting I attended yesterday evening. I am repeating myself over and over again. If there is a request from a local community, is Bord na Móna willing to sit down with that community?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Okay. In the line of----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I understand all that. What I am saying is if I buy the field, the field is my baby after that. It is not Bord na Móna's or anyone else's. That is all I am saying. I welcome what has been said. I understand the legal side of it. I am not questioning that whatsoever. I am talking about - it was stated to me previously - where there were cases where there were agreements made or...