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

Michael Fitzmaurice: To inform Dr. MacNamara, I can send him a video of a field. In fairness the contractor - I am a contractor though I do not have the gear for that - I would not go into the field if I got €1,000 an acre because all he was doing was getting stuck and towing a valuable machine around the place. They have given a letter to that farmer that they are never coming back to do that again...

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: Dr. MacNamara might forward the committee his contact details because I want to engage with him on this one to try and bring a solution to it. On the recycling side of Bord na Móna, the company won a large contract lately for recycling plastic. Was that plastic recycled since Bord na Móna got it or was it just brought to another place in the south-west of the county?

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: It was a large contract that Bord na Móna won. I thought Mr. Breen might be aware of it.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: On the power plant, is Bord na Móna going for planning permission to keep the power plant going? Am I right that it is up in 2024?

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: I will let someone else in. I will come back after a while once they are finished.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: I believe I know where Deputy Carthy is coming from. I know the piles around Castlepollard. A problem arose last year for private individuals who had piles of peat that was to be hauled away on the moving-floor trailer to the place of processing. The Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, in its great judgment, decided to start following people around roads. It does not do what it is...

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: Hold on now. I will name those concerned if Mr. Breen wants me to. Some of them have connections with fairly big outfits here in Ireland. Why is the director, who is from Northern Ireland, from the ESB? Why did two Northern companies come to the South to price the job? I will bring proof if I need to. Let us deal with facts and not what is or is not appropriate.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: Okay. Thank you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee. I have several questions. I do not know which of the witnesses deals with the hackers hauling oil from the port in Dublin. Is it Mr. McPartlan who deals with oil tankers or is it the filling stations?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I will ask the question. One morning a large operator quoted a price of €1.40 a litre for green diesel and €1.35 for kerosene. When I spoke on Leaders' Questions at 12.55 p.m. that day these were the prices. That evening, the prices increased to €1.50 and €1.45. The following morning, the prices were increased to €1.60 and €1.55.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It was recently on a day I spoke on Leaders' Questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It was in the past few weeks. The following morning the price was €1.60 per litre. That oil company did not import oil from foreign seas on four different occasions that day. It was able to sell green diesel to a person in Sligo at €1.20 per litre even though it was advertising it online at €1.60. What type of gouging was that in the green diesel sector?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is gouging in my opinion because that is the fact. I looked at it. I was at a meeting of plant contractors that evening in Mullingar. A group of people was looking at what went on that day. Can anyone justify it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It did not rise four times in the one day.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I know that because I know other oil companies. A guy living beside me hauls oil and I speak to him regularly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It was able to sell the same oil to someone at €1.20 a litre even though it was quoting a price of €1.60. How could it do this? It sold diesel to a contractor at €1.20 even though the price quoted online was €1.60.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: No, it did not. There was no contract.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I have the proof of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: That is what has gone on around the country. I am a contractor. I buy a fair bit of diesel and I know what went on.