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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The witnesses are welcome. I am going to be pretty quick and there will be sharp questions. Going by the ACA's presentation, there is a problem with farmers getting information on nitrates that was promised by the Department. When was that information to be given in case farmers went over their nitrates limit each year? From the presentation, that was not given to agricultural consultants...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What is late?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Were they accurate?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Wrong.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Okay. What needs to be done there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I forgot one thing. Am I correct in saying that at the moment, a planner's licence is at risk if he or she verifies that slurry was moved but a farmer has not done what he or he said he or she would? A text comes to a farmer and not to the planner. Planners have to take the word of the farmer. Is the Department threatening that or is that just hearsay?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Are texts the solution?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Okay. Keep going on contracts and nutrient management plans.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: It is paid for by the taxpayer already.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I am sorry; Mr. Canning; we have to let the next man go.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The contract.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Keep going.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The farmer gets it as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: That the witnesses are carrying out fraud.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The last question I have is a quick one. In regard to the fertiliser database, what date does that have to have that filled by? Is there a risk that if a merchant does not put in what they got during the year until the end of the year, a farmer could then tip over on their nitrates? Is that risk there? Is it genuine?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I want to go back to one thing, just to be clear. I am a farmer, moving slurry. My understanding, and I want clarity on this, is that if a farmer is moving slurry, the Department sends a text to the farmer and the receiver. If I put in a BISS application and I have a problem with it, it will come to me as the farmer and it will also go to the planner who filled it out. The query goes to...
- Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Where is the suckler scheme you promised?
- Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What about tillage?
- Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: And yet there is no extra money for farmers.