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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Directive, Water Quality and Pollution: Discussion (13 Oct 2021)
Michael Fitzmaurice: That is grand, thanks. If a farmer has more cows than space, for example, and cannot get into the targeted agricultural modernisation schemes, TAMS, could that farmer make more room for soiled water, for example, to get a grant? Is that the proposal?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Directive, Water Quality and Pollution: Discussion (13 Oct 2021)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is that even for soiled water?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Directive, Water Quality and Pollution: Discussion (13 Oct 2021)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Directive, Water Quality and Pollution: Discussion (13 Oct 2021)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Are there proposals for the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications to back the likes of anaerobic digesters through promotion or grant aid?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Directive, Water Quality and Pollution: Discussion (13 Oct 2021)
Michael Fitzmaurice: There is another question on water quality and fencing off watercourses. Is the Department aware that in designated areas, you must get planning permission to put up a fence and a farmer cannot just rock up and start hammering down a stake? Is the Department aware that in commonages this is a problem? Is it solely on derogation that land can be fenced? Will the Department explain the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Directive, Water Quality and Pollution: Discussion (13 Oct 2021)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I have a final question and I want to let in others. Representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency were in earlier and spoke about a section of the country where the water quality was affected by nitrates. There is a theory that the departmental officials might know but is it the case that 50% of all fertilisers in Ireland are used by 18,000 dairy farmers, with the other 110,000...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Directive, Water Quality and Pollution: Discussion (13 Oct 2021)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Given what we have seen on maps, the fact there are some fairly intensive dairy farms in the areas and the comments from the EPA, is there a concern that the proposals may not work effectively?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Directive, Water Quality and Pollution: Discussion (13 Oct 2021)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Am I not correct in saying that if I was a farmer with a single farm payment who leases it to Senator Daly so as not to make a single farm payment application, I would not be subject to any limitation on nitrates?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Directive, Water Quality and Pollution: Discussion (13 Oct 2021)
Michael Fitzmaurice: So I am not subject to anybody looking at my nitrates.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Directive, Water Quality and Pollution: Discussion (13 Oct 2021)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Nobody will send out a letter to me saying that I have gone over my nitrates because he or she does not know.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Directive, Water Quality and Pollution: Discussion (13 Oct 2021)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is that being examined?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Directive, Water Quality and Pollution: Discussion (13 Oct 2021)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Directive, Water Quality and Pollution: Discussion (13 Oct 2021)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I am specifically referring to the sludge that comes from the cities. Is the EPA not aware of the amounts involved in the three or four main cities?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Directive, Water Quality and Pollution: Discussion (13 Oct 2021)
Michael Fitzmaurice: There are new Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, proposals coming out relating to sowing trees and spreading with GPS fertiliser spreaders, which would help water quality. There are something like five different examples, and this refers back to water quality. Are those options available up to somebody on the 170 kg/ha/year limit? Does the Department deal with that?
- Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the opportunity to speak. It is welcome that the thresholds for the carer's allowance have been lifted a bit. My honest opinion is that anybody who gives up a job to mind someone belonging to them as a carer should not be means tested because the service such a person does for the State is unbelievable. I also welcome the move on childcare. The devil will be in the detail and...
- Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What about rural dwellers?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the officials for coming before us. They spoke about co-operatives, merchants and vets. Have they met the responsible persons?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I know that. Have the witnesses met them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Have the witnesses met the responsible persons around the country and have they looked at the impact on their careers and livelihoods, as distinct from their employers, be they co-operatives, vets or merchants?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)
Michael Fitzmaurice: So the witnesses have met them to go through that.