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Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Business of Select Committee (15 Nov 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Will we invite officials form the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport to discuss TEN-T funding?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I believe the farming organisations, Deputies in rural areas and the Department have the biggest sequestration area in the country. Rural Ireland is what sequesters a lot of carbon and it is taking the biggest hit for everything that goes wrong. It is not the planes, the lorries or the transport. It is rural Ireland. It is their cows. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I wish to know that figure. How accurate are the figures that are being given out? To whom can we talk to ascertain how this debt is compiled? The then Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Coveney, said last year there would be a review. We were not happy with some of the ways the carbon figure was being added up in Ireland. Are we basically just taking figures from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Although we have got good, it still is said that the national herd should be slaughtered, that we should get rid of farmers and those farmers should not live. To be blunt, I would call those who are coming out with this stuff idiots. What went on in the Citizen's Assembly was misguided information. If the head of the Citizen's Assembly had any respect for the people of Ireland, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Mr. Callanan mentioned Pillar 1 and Pillar 2. Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 were introduced to ensure that the food produced is affordable This was the first aim of the EU. Without that support, food production would be more expensive and farmers would not be able to survive. Ireland is a net contributor to the EU such that money provided for Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 is our own money. As I said,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is it 175 kg for a dairy cow?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: No. I am referring to emissions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Am I right?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: If everyone involved in farming decided to plant one or two hectares, the farming sector would still get a wrap on the knuckles because other people would still claim that it is responsible for big emissions. The latter is despite the fact that we have put in place mitigation measures, etc. This is where a balance must be struck. Those involved in agriculture are starting to bring the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I only want to help the situation. Dr. Hendrick said that the carbon capture is 10 tonnes of CO2 per hectare per year. If we planted 1,000 hectares more per year, we would reduce the agricultural sector's carbon emissions for 2020 or whatever. We would also give ourselves a very sellable product everywhere around the world because our emissions would be lower. At present, the initiative...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: If we go down the route of extra planting and farming, what is the witnesses' prediction as to the number of farmers who will be in Ireland in ten years' time? When a lot of trees are sown in an area, one loses the people in a community. Deputy Martin Kenny's native county is an example and I know what he is talking about. Has the Department done any projections on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The witnesses are just not getting the message of what we are saying. We are saying where there might be families living at the end of a road, if the land is planted, no matter how one does the maths and no matter what is created, they leave that area because the trees are there. There is no point in saying they are not there. We are not saying they should have no forest. Furthermore,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The census shows what is happening in north Donegal and north-west Mayo. It shows where people are leaving, including the parts of Leitrim affected. The people would be moved into a-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Before the witnesses come back in, I would like them to give me their opinion on one other thing. There are problems, be it in Mayo or Connemara, where there are land tracts that are designated and one can do nothing with them. The National Parks and Wildlife Service has been touched on. It will come out and say where the hen harrier is there will be no planting. That is a problem for...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Staff (14 Nov 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 197. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will request the Garda Commissioner to ensure that the detective inspector post at the Office of Director of Corporate Enforcement is filled as a matter of urgency in view of the fact that this post has been vacant for the past 14 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47672/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (14 Nov 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 275. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be admitted to the National Rehabilitation Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47670/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (14 Nov 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 327. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made regarding a medical card application by a person (details supplied); his views on whether it is correct for an application to take seven months to be processed despite having received all information; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48024/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Payments (14 Nov 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 356. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the information technology system issue that is holding up payments to agricultural planners for GLAS courses (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47661/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Services Provision (14 Nov 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 422. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request Iarnród Éireann to increase the frequency of the Dublin to Sligo train service in each direction at the weekends; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47674/17]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I move amendment No. 64: In page 53, to delete line 10 and substitute the following: “(i) in paragraph (4), by substituting “2 per cent of stamp duty for the first €300,000, 4 per cent from €300,000 to €500,000, and 6 per cent from €500,000 thereafter on non-residential holdings” for “6 per cent”, and”. The rate...