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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Can it be brought in from abroad?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: How many will be? How many do the officials expect? Will it be half of them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes, but is there any way to measure odour? I do not think so.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Under the farm to fork strategy, beef prices are good at the moment. Dairy might have slipped a bit but it is still not too bad. However, there is a major problem arising in the pig industry where prices have dropped 30 cent a kilogram. Has the Government engaged, or will it engage, with the farming sector to see how it can help a sector that is starting to struggle at the moment?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I have had a few conversations with the Minister for justice and I acknowledge that he is trying to make changes. The reality, however, is that it is neither good for the person looking for asylum or good for the State if something is dragging on for six years. Those are the facts of the matter. Two years ago, I chased up on the question of how somebody is identified and we were told by...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I think everyone recognises that we need people coming into this country through the visa system. We need doctors, nurses, people in hospitality and all different types of workers. They are welcome in this country. However, from what we have read last night, we need to have a conversation about illegal immigration. Most politicians are afraid at the moment, as are ordinary people. When...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Here we go.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: In the whole immigration process, the Government said it would process an applicant within six months. That has not happened. It is going on for four, five and six years. When will that be resolved? Our system is broken at the moment. The Government has admitted that we have an influx of youngsters and accommodation is very scarce. In Poland, Donald Tusk has decided, because the country...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Budget 2026 (21 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 511. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will confirm that all weekly contributory and weekly non-contributory pensioners will receive the full ten euros increase in Budget 2026 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56523/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (16 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 397. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown, by location of each CR hub and its corresponding dedicated CR WTE allocation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56461/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (16 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 398. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide a detailed list of hub sites and identify which locations are currently providing phase III CR (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56462/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (16 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 399. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who completed a full phase III CR programme during 2024 in the community hub CR setting (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56463/25]

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the budget. I welcome the increases for pensioners and people with disabilities. They probably need more, to be frank, but I have to at least acknowledge it. I welcome the increase in the carer's supports thresholds. The ideal scenario is that if someone packs up a job to mind another person, regardless of what their partner earns or has, it saves the...

Tillage Sector: Statements (15 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: We have already gone five times.

Tillage Sector: Statements (15 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The agriculture committee has gone a few times.

Tillage Sector: Statements (15 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this. Whether people come from an area that engaged in tillage, it is awfully important. Whether people are in sucklers, sheep, dairy or whatever, the people who grow the tillage to get the straw are ferociously important. We have a decision to make. Let us look at the prices this year. What is being given under the protein aid scheme is a good...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome everyone in. I am familiar with Mr. Gildea's operation. I have been there often enough looking at it. I want to compliment Mr. Finan and Dr. Nolan for the work in liaising to try to get these off the ground. There are two different systems we are on about. Mr. Gildea is producing electricity. The first thing I will do is call out for this, and I will not apologise to anyone, is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: In fairness, Mr. Gildea’s is a phenomenal set up. It is interesting to see how the grass growth, which I also saw, is phenomenal. I was hugely impressed with that place out there. Dr. Nolan spoke about how he is getting on to gas but he spoke about how farmers out the country had done it. The big problem for farmers is that if someone is a tillage farmer, they do not need to be in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am not wrong.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I will put it this way. I am well familiar and have done a lot of research on this. With Uisce Éireann, if you go to its place, bring the sludge back and put it through anaerobic digestion, it will not give it.