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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Minerals Development Bill 2014: Discussion (1 Apr 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Does Mr. Breslin think it would be a good idea to include in the definition that water is not included because there will be many people worried about the water side of it if they have boreholes? I think it would be advantageous to make clear that we are not talking about a borehole for water in order to ease the anxiety that may exist in communities around the country. That anxiety would...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Minerals Development Bill 2014: Discussion (1 Apr 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: No, but it is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Minerals Development Bill 2014: Discussion (1 Apr 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: That is good. Mr. Breslin makes reference to the Mining Board. If there are areas of conflict, is it the Mining Board that decides things? At the end of the day, a board can meet and decide to give certain rights to a particular farmer but does the Minister have the power to overrule such a decision?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Minerals Development Bill 2014: Discussion (1 Apr 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: He has not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Minerals Development Bill 2014: Discussion (1 Apr 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: It is legally binding for both parties.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Minerals Development Bill 2014: Discussion (1 Apr 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Who appoints that board?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Minerals Development Bill 2014: Discussion (1 Apr 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What did Mr. Breslin say?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Minerals Development Bill 2014: Discussion (1 Apr 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I had understood that if there is any conflict, if the Minister has appointed someone to a body, it is not classed as wholly independent. I think the ESB found that out to its detriment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Minerals Development Bill 2014: Discussion (1 Apr 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: It does.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Minerals Development Bill 2014: Discussion (1 Apr 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is Mr. Breslin saying that property rights will be diminished somewhat by this?
- Other Questions: Agrifood Sector (31 Mar 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: They are all in the west.
- Other Questions: Agrifood Sector (31 Mar 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The poor old west.
- Other Questions: GLAS Eligibility (31 Mar 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Cork.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (31 Mar 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I understand where the Minister is coming from. During the past 90 to 120 days there should have been no reason that inspectors could not have inspected the 300 to 400 farms to check whether the numbers were in the ground and whether farmers were compliant. The Department should have pushed this side of it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (31 Mar 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 152. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will assure farmers in counties Roscommon, Leitrim and Longford and in east Galway, whose payments under the agri-environment options scheme have been held up due to an investigation being carried out; his views that these farmers are suffering financial problems, as this has dragged on for a long time; and if he will make a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (31 Mar 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Will the Minister reassure farmers in counties Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford and east Galway whose payments under the agri-environment options scheme, AEOS, have been held up due to a Department investigation? What are his views on this? The farmers in the area are suffering severe financial problems so will the Minister make a statement?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (31 Mar 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I have met a good few farmers who may have bought some trees. They had inspections in 2011 or 2012 and everything was in order. These people have had their payments held up as well. There are many very good farmers out there and many of them expected this money before Christmas. They are under serious financial pressure. They have gone to different public representatives, expressing how...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (31 Mar 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Sure.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (31 Mar 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the Minister's statement that he is not going to allow our dairy sector - I would have like him to have included our beef sector also-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (31 Mar 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: If a sector is going well, we need to make sure there is a focus on jobs. Whatever Europe says, if we can show that we are doing something in the most efficient way in Europe, whoever has to take the hit in other parts of Europe or the world, they should take it, provided we are the ringleader in all of this. I believe we can produce milk and beef more efficiently than anywhere else.