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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Supports (11 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 253. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if section 9.2 of the terms and conditions of the beef exceptional aid measure can be changed to ensure that the immediate previous owner of an animal presented for slaughter within 30 days of it being purchased will receive the €100 payment regardless of whether the person who purchased the animal was an agent, dealer or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Forestry and Climate Change: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the Chair. I must have 15 minutes at this stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Forestry and Climate Change: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I will start with a quick-fire round. I have a question for Mr. Murphy. I will not mention the companies involved but am I correct in saying that cut-offs and waste timber left over from a site can be used for different processing or generation activities in Northern Ireland but that the EPA will not grant people in the South licences to use timber in that way? Mr. McAuley asked why...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Forestry and Climate Change: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I want quick answers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Forestry and Climate Change: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: When one puts up a timber roof there may be pieces left. This is called used timber even though it was never used. In the North one can bring it to Balcas or another company. One can get a licence for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Forestry and Climate Change: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is a simple way of doing this. When the single farm payment application goes out to farmers, the Department should give them €50 extra and ask them the number and type of trees on their lands. If they have been growing since 1990, they should count.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Forestry and Climate Change: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The policy is to keep replanting what has already been planted on raised bogs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Forestry and Climate Change: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is not being done.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Forestry and Climate Change: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: No, there was another. Why would people go into forestry? The Department has been dealing with the problem I have mentioned for three years. It has been handed from one person to another. Why has it not been dealt with?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Forestry and Climate Change: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am not asking Mr. Hayes to name anyone.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Forestry and Climate Change: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Mr. Hayes knows about it well. He has texted me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Forestry and Climate Change: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: There was a question to Coillte.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Government Procurement (3 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 173. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the date on which the Office of Government Procurement ceased taking supplementary requests for tenders from framework clients of the multi-supplier framework for the provision of external workplace investigations services 2015 in advance of the commencement of the replacement framework for such investigations (details supplied); and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Government Procurement (3 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 174. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the date the last supplementary requests for tenders in regard to the multi-supplier framework for the provision of external workplace investigations services 2015 were received by the Office of Government Procurement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50330/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Government Procurement (3 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 175. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the date the last award was notified to the successful framework member under the multi-supplier framework for the provision of external workplace investigations services 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50331/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. I know that Mr. Carlin said earlier that for legal reasons he cannot comment on this. I am not asking about the legal aspect but why it is taking so long for arbitration to go ahead with regard to partnerships where there are problems. At our last meeting here, we asked if there were legal issues with the certification of the farm partnerships....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: My understanding is that a legal firm wrote about issues relating to certification of partnerships. A question was asked of previous guests of the committee as to whether there were any legal letters on this matter and the committee was told there were not. I understand that a Dublin firm has written 20 letters to Coillte.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: No problem. I thank Mr. Carlin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: We got figures to the effect that Coillte had made increases to the tune of 20 ha. I am not talking about reforestation in areas where trees were cut, nor am I am talking about cases where somebody bought a wind farm from Coillte, or where Coillte is putting up a wind farm and had to replace the forestry. I am talking about actual extra hectares on top of what was pre-existing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I did not ask that question. I asked how much new land and how many acres, on top of the acreage that Coillte has always had, has been afforested. There was mention earlier of 300 ha but that is not correct. I am asking how much new land has been afforested, ignoring the pieces of land that Coillte bought to replace land it had sold and had to afforest. I am talking about new, clean land....