Results 341-360 of 7,254 for speaker:Michael Fitzmaurice

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Right. Looking at subheads A and C, there is less money going into the farmers' pocket. There was a drop of 1%. Is that right?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: There is more money coming for sheep but I am looking at a budget of €21.440 million. We are back to €20 million this year. Can the Minister square that circle from me?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is the sheep figures of €21.440 million versus €20 million this year.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Which one has €1 million less? Animal welfare, schemes for sheep, has €21.440 million versus €20 million this year. That is minus 7%.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: There will be a saving of €1.4 million. Is that right?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: In regard to the agri-environment climate scheme, what is that €133 million going back to €92 million? That is minus 31%. What is that?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Results-based environment-agri pilot project, REAP, might be in there as well. Is it?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: In regard to forestry, subhead B10 has €98.932 million back to €97 million. What is the story there?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: To be clear, last year was our worst year at planting. Is this the budget we spent?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: For how many thousand hectares?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: So €40 million was carried over?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: On the budget that is there, how many hectares is the €97 million for?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: That is 8,000 ha, is it?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes but is our target 8,000 ha? That is my understanding.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is 8,000 ha. How would the Minister only be putting €40 million back, if we are only doing a quarter of it?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I understand that but we have a lesser figure in, so how would we be planting more, giving higher premiums and still have €1 million saved?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Where is that?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Okay.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It looks like we will struggle to get 15,000 farmers.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: You have not. Look at the figures.