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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.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (31 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Let us consider An Taisce and many of these bodies. Some people would rather see people sitting in their houses then actually out earning a living. We should know where we are coming from as a nation.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (31 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The same An Taisce probably does not want us to have houses in rural Ireland either. Anyhow, I believe we need to focus on what we are good at as a nation, which is agriculture. The Minister should check on the matter, but some of the larger countries in Europe have already put their hands up and said they will not achieve what they are supposed to achieve by 2020. If we are going to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (31 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 150. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of an exclusive report in last week's Irish Farmers' Journal of a proposal in Europe to get rid of 33% of Ireland's beef herd and 5% of its dairy herd, and with proposals that Ireland will increase its dairy herd by approximately 50%, his views that our agri-sector must be left alone to help our country; and if he will make...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (31 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Last week the Irish Farmers' Journal stated in an exclusive report, and the Irish Farmers' Journal claims to have seen the document, that it is proposed in Europe that 33% of Irish beef would have to go by the wayside, as well as 5% of our dairy sector, to comply with the 2020 targets. I know the Minister has referred to the matter. The Minister is alleged to have said yesterday that we will...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Eligibility (31 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 162. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will consider splitting land parcels for the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme as it is not ideal for smaller farms as currently constituted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12750/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Eligibility (31 Mar 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 169. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the problems under the organic farming scheme and the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme, where a farmer may have 12 ha but cannot receive two different payments on the same ground regarding the double payment issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12751/15]