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Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What is the story with the two figures below it in E13 and E20? There looks to be another issue.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Okay. That is lovely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Does HSI have governance over them and look at what is going on? It seems that a lot of attempts are made for extraordinary general meetings, EGMs. We had a lot of difficulty under the green, low-carbon, agri-environment, GLAS, for rare breeds in the line of stud books. It was tough going for some farmers. Did the HSI have a look at that? We get a lot of correspondence from people in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: In the new system of DNA and the stud books, why jump from one thing to another? Why can HSI not run two things in parallel? It is under pressure to get stuff out to the people. Why does it not look at other ways? It is either full duck or no dinner. Surely to God a system should be trialled so that it could be done within a certain length of time. Then, if it was failing, it should...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Who took that decision?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: When it was getting the information, did HSI flag that there would be delays?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine insisted on keeping going.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: That is perfect. That is interesting. Unfortunately, I am not an expert in horses. Yet, any time I come in, there is litigation going on, committees are resigning, and one is looking at the other. Is all that over? What is the story with all this litigation? Has that been parked to one side? I understand this is an interim board. When does it think it will have all the people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Mr. Dowling spoke earlier about how different groups were not happy that there were not some people from their side or background on it. Can the board be made bigger to accommodate or try to bring a happy family together for once? This is the last thing I will say. We should talk to the Department to ask if it has been flagged about the delay and see that it actually persists with it. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee. First, does HSI have anything to do with the Connemara ponies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Do you give them money or anything?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: No, I asked a question. Did HSI flag that there would be delays?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The Minister is correct in everything he has said. I am not having a go at the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donovan. I am talking about legislation. The Minister mentioned the people of Lough Funshinagh. There is a steering group for those people. This steering group looks like it is going to sit for another three or four years with the way it is going. The water is coming. You cannot...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Over recent weeks we have seen various Ministers, including the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, our Taoiseach and our Tánaiste in different parts of the country where there has been serious flooding, where people have lost their businesses or are in deep trouble and where householders have been flooded out of it, never to get insurance again. We have seen this in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The people right around this country-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: -----need honesty because that is nine years on the go. Tell that to the people in Midleton and other places.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 365. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine given that at a recent forest service training day in Killaloe, County Clare, the forest service representative stated that the new protocol or procedure for assessing and measuring peat-oregano mineral soil was trialled on 25 sites across Ireland prior to it being implemented as department policy and procedure, if he will detail,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 366. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will organise for the industry to visit the 25 sites, or a portion of same, trialled by the forest service of his Department in the assessment of the new protocol-procedure for assessing and measuring peat-oregano mineral soil for training purposes, as the full results of the 25 sites are known to his Department and will make...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 367. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, following the issuance of an afforestation technical approval for afforestation and a corresponding financial approval, and subsequent to ground cultivation taking place on a peat-oregano mineral soil site, that species selection needs to change from one forest type to another due to peat-oregano mineral soil depth, if this is...