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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (9 Mar 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank Mr. Ryan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (9 Mar 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What is the story with the letter, the pricing of cattle, the appeals and the solo run?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (9 Mar 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Just to be clear, Mr. Ryan is saying that farmers knew about this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (9 Mar 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I ask Mr. Ryan to touch on the other issues because other people want to talk. Why do the people working not get compensation? What has gone wrong with the pricing of cattle? The Department is basically judge, jury and executor of every farmer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (9 Mar 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What I am asking is why the Department got a second valuation when it did not agree with the first one. I have seen this on a number of occasions, where the Department then did not agree with the second one because it was higher than the first one and it decided to go back to the first one. The farmer cannot do that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (9 Mar 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: They are not person to person.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (9 Mar 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: That is not a rationale. Regarding small farmers with no choice but to work off-farm to keep the farm going, what is the rationale for not giving them the hardship grant? It is the cattle that will suffer. Why is this discrimination taking place?

Banking Sector: Statements (3 Mar 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I express my sympathy to those who have lost their jobs in Bank of Ireland and to people in rural Ireland. Many parts of my own area, including Dunmore, Ballyhaunis, Ballygar, Elphin and Strokestown, have no bank now. Ballyhaunis is a big town as we understand it in rural Ireland and it has no bank. The banks are not going to come back and there is no point in saying Bank of Ireland is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Schemes (3 Mar 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 341. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when funding will be announced for the disabled persons grant scheme for 2021 for counties Roscommon and Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11714/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (3 Mar 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 429. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on an application for a school bus ticket for children (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11313/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (3 Mar 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 677. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) who has been granted a stamp 1 G visa will receive the visa; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11527/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda National Immigration Bureau (3 Mar 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 678. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when an immigration officer will be appointed in the Tullamore district; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11528/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Mar 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 909. To ask the Minister for Health the reason churches have not been allowed to reopen for public worship in the same week that schools are allowed to reopen given that no case of Covid-19 has been linked to church attendance and given each church has previously succeeded in practising social distancing and following all guidelines in place. [11767/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Medical Certificates (3 Mar 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 857. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for an assessment for a primary medical certificate in counties Roscommon or Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11543/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Medical Certificates (3 Mar 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 858. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for an assessment for a primary medical certificate in counties Roscommon or Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11544/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (3 Mar 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1046. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if those farmers who at the inception of the young farmer scheme were farming in their own right for over five years and therefore not eligible and who are now over 40 years of age and without a green certificate will have a chance of entry into a new scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11224/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rewetting of Peatland and its Impact on Farmers: Discussion (2 Mar 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I do not know what is wrong. I am in my office in Dublin but there is nothing on my screen. There is some technical issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rewetting of Peatland and its Impact on Farmers: Discussion (2 Mar 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I do not have the Chairman's pretty face in front me, whatever problem is occurring. I welcome the witnesses. I had a Zoom meeting with Bord na Móna one week ago. There are concerns around the country about drains that have been deepened and pumps are operating, boundary or mairning drains between farmers and drains that go through land to a river. There are places near Ballinasloe...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rewetting of Peatland and its Impact on Farmers: Discussion (2 Mar 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Will the farming organisations be pushing for a written agreement for the future? Will they be working together to try to achieve this? At my meeting with them, while they were very co-operative, they were not jumping out through the fence to provide a written agreement. This needs to be a red line issue for the farming community.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rewetting of Peatland and its Impact on Farmers: Discussion (2 Mar 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: There are a few points I want to come back to there. From the meeting I had with them, a lot of the bogs at issue were raised bogs once but a lot of the peat would be off them now. We have bogs around us, 3,000 ha that were re-wetted by the NPWS years ago and to be honest, there has not been a problem, provided it is done right. That is the bottom line. The ecologists I spoke to are...