Results 121-140 of 8,268 for speaker:Michael Fitzmaurice
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Does Social Farming Ireland distribute all the money?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I heard the representatives from Kerry say they got local money from X, Y and Z. Is that in addition to what Social Farming Ireland does?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Does the Kerry group get money from Leitrim?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: They are separate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The farmer gets nothing in Kerry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The witnesses are welcome. I am going to be pretty quick and there will be sharp questions. Going by the ACA's presentation, there is a problem with farmers getting information on nitrates that was promised by the Department. When was that information to be given in case farmers went over their nitrates limit each year? From the presentation, that was not given to agricultural consultants...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What is late?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Were they accurate?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Wrong.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Okay. What needs to be done there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I forgot one thing. Am I correct in saying that at the moment, a planner's licence is at risk if he or she verifies that slurry was moved but a farmer has not done what he or he said he or she would? A text comes to a farmer and not to the planner. Planners have to take the word of the farmer. Is the Department threatening that or is that just hearsay?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Are texts the solution?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Okay. Keep going on contracts and nutrient management plans.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: It is paid for by the taxpayer already.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I am sorry; Mr. Canning; we have to let the next man go.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The contract.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Keep going.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The farmer gets it as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: That the witnesses are carrying out fraud.