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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: No.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: One example is Cloneen near Longford where there is an SAC raised bog. There is no management plan for that land and the problem relates to the raised bog. It has been developed into green land on which one can cut the meadow. Those involved are now being refused permission to clean a drain. The land is getting worse because of this problem, which is why I say one crowd is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes. It is an SAC raised bog, even though a person can cut silage on it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: No, it was done years ago. The Department would have given grants-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme and GLAS: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I have dealt with SACs and NHAs. We were told on numerous occasions that when adjustments had to made, clearance had to be obtained from the European Union. One is subject to the same notifiable actions on an NHA as on an SAC or an SPA. Why is there a differentiation, notwithstanding the fact that the people concerned being left with harsh conditions under which they are supposed to work?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: County Monaghan Anti-Pylon Committee (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank Ms Marron and her team for the presentation and I welcome Councillors McElvaney and Keelan. Last week we found out that while this charade was going on of making people feel good that every option would be considered, the proposal for the pylons had been submitted to An Bord Pleanála. People were wondering were they going to get underground or overground connections but the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: County Monaghan Anti-Pylon Committee (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is it is envisaged that Spain will be buying from France?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (23 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 92. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will make the provision of comfort slat mats eligible for grant aid under the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme 2 when it opens for applications later in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16033/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Management (23 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 95. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the figures for the net discounted revenue and projected financial loss resulting from the reduction in forest productivity and premature clear felling at a location (details supplied) in County Roscommon, due to turbine base construction, road construction and reconstruction, mast construction and turbulence avoidance felling; and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 96. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the projected timber and financial losses resulting from wind blow, precipitated by tree felling, pursuant to the construction and ongoing maintenance of a location (details supplied) in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16088/15]

Self-Employed and the SME Sector: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I commend Deputy Calleary for bringing forward this motion. Most people in the private sector around the country are employed by small and medium-sized businesses - one, two, three and four-person operations. Entrepreneurs never got a hand or leg up and had to do things on their own. Many of them have employed people countrywide, fought their way through the recession and struggled on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: EirGrid (21 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the delegates for their presentation. Mr. Slye indicated that expenditure on the project had reduced from an estimated €4.2 billion to €3.2 billion and, ultimately, to €2.7 billion. He talked about how the international panel had found in 2012 that undergrounding would cost three times as much as proceeding with the overground option. He suggested that he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: EirGrid (21 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Can Mr. Slye nail this for me please because we are going around in circles?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: EirGrid (21 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: In business one has to project for the future. In ten to 15 years' time, does Mr. Slye think that when England builds five new plants they will be bothered about taking electricity from us? They have kicked wind energy to touch. If we have an interconnector with France, does Mr. Slye think that we can compete? We have had meetings here to talk about energy security throughout Europe. In...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: EirGrid (21 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: In general terms? Just think of it all year round.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: EirGrid (21 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What I am trying to nail down is that, in Mr. Slye's projection for ten or 15 years' time, 70% of the time we will buy in electricity cheaper than producing it. Is there a cost-effectiveness in what we spend now for that 30%? Is it going to pay us?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: EirGrid (21 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: If we produce it for 30% of the time in ten years' time, given what we have to spend to put networks together throughout the country, will it be cost effective?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Parcel Identification System (21 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 360. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the precise statutory basis for the land parcel identification system appeals committee; the way he has delegated powers to this committee; the procedures this committee follows and the location where such information can be accessed; his views that applicants should be entitled to this information, prior to his Department offering...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Parcel Identification System (21 Apr 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 361. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 142 of 26 March 2015, if he is satisfied that there is no discrimination where verification visits and-or land parcel verifications are notified to farmers of privately owned lands, but commonage farmers are not notified in advance of such verification visits and-or land parcel verifications;...