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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Foresty Partnership Agreements: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I will address my first point to Mr. Murphy. There is no talk at all about the establishment grant, although Mr. Murphy referred to €20 million being paid out. At the moment, €800 per acre is given twice in an establishment grant. Is that correct? I know Coillte has 12,000 ha involved in the partnerships. There has been talk that all of this money was paid out. All the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Foresty Partnership Agreements: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: A meeting is where one meets a person face to face.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Foresty Partnership Agreements: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is Mr. Stanley referring to telephone calls?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Foresty Partnership Agreements: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: To clarify this matter, we are having a meeting today. Is Mr. Stanley referring to meetings or telephone calls? Which is it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Foresty Partnership Agreements: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: People are kidding themselves in all of this. I know more than seven parties contacted me and they would have contacted other public representatives. I know the farming organisations have been contacted by 60 to 70 people. It is ironic that these people are coming to me, other public representatives and the farming organisations but Coillte does not seem to know about them. I am at a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Foresty Partnership Agreements: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Does that apply no matter where is the location?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Foresty Partnership Agreements: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: It is a function of the licence.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Foresty Partnership Agreements: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Why does Coillte not go into partnership in the second round if it is so good for everyone?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Foresty Partnership Agreements: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: They were given a woeful price. I have seen all the figures.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Foresty Partnership Agreements: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I know the figures for what contractors get because I am a contractor.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Foresty Partnership Agreements: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I know.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Foresty Partnership Agreements: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: There was a partnership in which Coillte refused to put in a short bit of road to get the lorries in because the council looked for bonds. Is that right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Foresty Partnership Agreements: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What will be done with the timber?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Foresty Partnership Agreements: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I am referring to this particular farmer. How will the timber be taken out if there is no access road with a short bit to swing the lorry around on?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Foresty Partnership Agreements: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: How does Mr. Ruane know what I am talking about? Coillte has refused this one.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Foresty Partnership Agreements: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is it in the west of Ireland?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Foresty Partnership Agreements: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Does Mr. Murphy agree that partnerships are under pressure? At the moment, one can get €5,200 for average blends. When one looks at the Coillte figures, which I do not dispute, the land is there but one has to go on and plant it after that. After 30 or 35 years, one has to plant it but one gets nothing. Does Mr. Murphy think partnerships are under pressure when one looks at the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Foresty Partnership Agreements: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Does Coillte or the owner of the land get the carbon credits if a private operator sows the field?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Foresty Partnership Agreements: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Could the committee be updated in the coming months to ensure that progress is being made? The committee could seek an update from the farming organisations and Coillte to keep the committee posted because if the process is not moving they will have to be called before the committee.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Licences (27 Feb 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 320. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to amend legislation to allow for persons to hold pepper spray or an electroshock weapon in their own homes for the purposes of self defence in view of recent reports that members of An Garda Síochána have used pepper spray more than 500 times in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9442/18]