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

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is that done for free?

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: I know that.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am very into the pelleting, and I know the energy used is a problem. Can the witnesses see a day when that will happen?

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: On the point about going from different places to the grid, what is the maximum it can go? I am talking about viability.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: What is the maximum?

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: I will give the members directions.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: How does that go? Does it send out a lorry? What do the farmers get back?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (15 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of hours a person (details supplied) has completed in both national school and in secondary school since their time registered with her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55726/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (15 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 304. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is no acute asthma management plan in place, in and being adhered to in University College Hospital Galway; or if there is such a plan, if she could provide a copy of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55678/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (14 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 732. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a farmer with a TB restricted herd can sell cattle directly to a controlled finishing unit with no conditions attached, regardless of whether they are inside or outside the 30-day TB test window (details supplied); if marts will be allowed to operate under the same conditions as a farmer selling direct to a feedlot; and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for coming in. I have been on farms where, basically, a number of people have been on this together, for example, at Boyle and Ballinlough, at Murphy's in Athenry and at Barlow's in Glinsk. It is great what it has done. I cannot get my head around one thing. I am trying to fathom it. Is the Leitrim body the overarching body for all of Ireland or are there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is €400,000 the total it gets, or are there other avenues through which it gets money?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: That is the network.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: How many people are involved in that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: How many people are directly employed for that €400,000?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What percentage do the farmers get?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I heard the figure of €80.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: They may have to go and pick somebody up as well. I think farmers should be well looked after in this regard.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What about the €100,000 that Social Farming Ireland is looking for now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I have seen it in action. I have been at places around the constituency when recognition is given to a group of people who are attending, such as youngsters with disabilities. It is a great system. I just wanted to establish the figures. Kerry is looking for €100,000 more. Is Social Farming Ireland funded enough?