Results 21-40 of 7,247 for speaker:Michael Fitzmaurice
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I know that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Will that date be soon? This is an urgent issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Let us not waste time now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I am reading a document on waste plastic recovery. It states that the IFFPG disclosed at this committee that the target of 70% of the farm plastics has been recycled, with up to 90% recycled in 2021 and 88% recycled in 2022. It states the volume of waste plastic being collected each year is in the region of 36,000 or 37,000 tonnes. This is what was collected. On the website, it states...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: If we are having a meeting, could the Minister of State have the 2023 figures for exports of farm plastic only and for recycling of farm plastic? None of us are conspiracy theorists, but we have a big concern. We have driven around, some of us have been in some of the factories that recycle plastic and some of us have been around looking at where plastic is stored. Some of us, though not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Why do the two sources say two different things?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: No, I did not say that. I told the Minister of State earlier that it is twice. He told us 6,000 tonnes was recycled. I do not know whether it was or was not and I do not deny it. However, there is talk about 38,000 tonnes of plastic. We are not doing a third of our plastic recycling. That is the fact. I will give the Minister of State space and time to answer those questions when he...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I will make it simpler. Can we have figures for what was exported in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I would like that. I would like to know what was exported and what is estimated to be there now. We will soon get the figures.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Was all that put out as amber or green? That is gone out of the country. The Department should have that figure. It is either amber or green.
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (14 May 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 397. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to clarify if a person (details supplied) over 65 and on over-65 jobseeker’s benefit, not having to actively seek employment and at home on a full-time basis, would be entitled to carer’s support grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21225/24]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank all the witnesses for their attendance. Who have they engaged and met with to educate themselves about this situation? Did they engage with Teagasc?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Did they visit any farms?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: That needs to be done urgently. This issue has been dragging on for seven to eight months. Farmers have been left in a quagmire, with no definite answers forthcoming. Whatever about a good decision or a bad decision, no decision is the worst of the lot. Farmers are left waiting for money. I know farmers who have not even heard back from Revenue. That is not a great situation. If I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: A hay barn or whatever.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Okay. If I put down bolts and put the shed up on those bolts, it is a permanent structure. If I put up my meal bin in the same way, what is the difference? They are both bolted.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What is a meal bin?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is a 10-tonne meal bin a structure?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: That is good to know. What about mats for slats?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: A mat cannot be cemented.