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- National Broadband Plan: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jan 2019)
Michael Fitzmaurice: It was a private company that did that, not the Government.
- National Broadband Plan: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jan 2019)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I support the motion. I have been here for four years. This is about the 20th time we have discussed rural broadband during Private Members' business yet the circus goes on. This has supposedly been coming to rural areas since 2012. I am from a rural area. I worry about competence in respect of what is happening. I am not saying it directly to the Minister because he is not long in the...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Commission (22 Jan 2019)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a reply will issue from the State Examinations Commission further to his reply to parliamentary questions Nos. 209 to 2014, inclusive, of 16 October 2018, in view of Standing Order 42A(1)(a) of Dáil Éireann. [2882/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (22 Jan 2019)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 429. To ask the Minister for Health if services at a location (details supplied) in County Galway will continue to operate from these premises; if patients from the town and surrounding areas will be seen in the town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2830/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (22 Jan 2019)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 430. To ask the Minister for Health if the mental health service in Glenamaddy, County Galway operating at a location (details supplied) will continue to operate from these premises; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2831/19]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Joint Committee on Rural and Community Development
Common Agricultural Policy: Discussion (22 Jan 2019) Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I have a few quick questions for Mr. Hayes. In the submission the Department will send to Europe, has the Department considered different scenarios? Has it considered front-loading to help family farms? There is talk that between a front-loading of 20 ha or 30 ha may help family farms. Has the Department considered the option? There is a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Joint Committee on Rural and Community Development
Common Agricultural Policy: Discussion (22 Jan 2019) Michael Fitzmaurice: That will be after 2020.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Joint Committee on Rural and Community Development
Common Agricultural Policy: Discussion (22 Jan 2019) Michael Fitzmaurice: Everybody had the opportunity. The issue is that someone may have been in AEOS for three years when the opportunity to jump arose. Those who wanted to stay in AEOS no longer have that opportunity. We had a budget of between €15 million and €20 million when AEOS was in place. If someone jumped from AEOS to GLAS, the funding was to be taken from GLAS and the farmer had two...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Joint Committee on Rural and Community Development
Common Agricultural Policy: Discussion (22 Jan 2019) Michael Fitzmaurice: They were offered a choice.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Joint Committee on Rural and Community Development
Common Agricultural Policy: Discussion (22 Jan 2019) Michael Fitzmaurice: Were there limits on numbers applied to GLAS?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Joint Committee on Rural and Community Development
Common Agricultural Policy: Discussion (22 Jan 2019) Michael Fitzmaurice: Would it be accurate to say there are 12,000 farmers coming out of AEOS who will not have a scheme until 2021?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Joint Committee on Rural and Community Development
Common Agricultural Policy: Discussion (22 Jan 2019) Michael Fitzmaurice: Does Mr. Hayes have concerns about-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Joint Committee on Rural and Community Development
Common Agricultural Policy: Discussion (22 Jan 2019) Michael Fitzmaurice: -----the locally-led schemes? In fairness to the Department, when it puts out a scheme the amount of money held for administration is not the same amount as in locally-led schemes and what consultants are given.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Joint Committee on Rural and Community Development
Common Agricultural Policy: Discussion (22 Jan 2019) Michael Fitzmaurice: Is it correct that one has to have 5 acres when one is planting? What about when there is a group of trees in the corner of a field? Could one put 50 or 100 trees in a corner or along a ditch to bring it to an acre and get paid for that acre? It may help in climate mitigation if one wants to go down that road but also people would not be tied to having 4 acres or 5 acres. Will the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Joint Committee on Rural and Community Development
Common Agricultural Policy: Discussion (22 Jan 2019) Michael Fitzmaurice: What is the Department's definition of a farmer? There is a query in the new CAP about what a farmer is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Joint Committee on Rural and Community Development
Common Agricultural Policy: Discussion (22 Jan 2019) Michael Fitzmaurice: What will the definition of a farmer be?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Joint Committee on Rural and Community Development
Common Agricultural Policy: Discussion (22 Jan 2019) Michael Fitzmaurice: It is not yet defined.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Joint Committee on Rural and Community Development
Common Agricultural Policy: Discussion (22 Jan 2019) Michael Fitzmaurice: On digesters, would it be used where one can put in grass or slurry? If one produced gas, could one sell it to the grid or put an engine in front of it to generate electricity? Will it be all the district heating system, which, let us be honest, will probably not work?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Joint Committee on Rural and Community Development
Common Agricultural Policy: Discussion (22 Jan 2019) Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I have a few quick questions for Mr. Hayes. In the submission the Department will send to Europe, has the Department considered different scenarios? Has it considered front-loading to help family farms? There is talk that between a front-loading of 20 ha or 30 ha may help family farms. Has the Department considered the option? There is a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Joint Committee on Rural and Community Development
Common Agricultural Policy: Discussion (22 Jan 2019) Michael Fitzmaurice: That will be after 2020.