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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: You would want to be pretty good with a weighing scale. Is there any-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I believe there was one factory that was going with a higher weight. Generally, when sheep get tight – maybe on the hogget side – factories can go a bit higher. In the ICSA negotiations with the factories, can that be changed to go to 23 kg? What is the thinking behind it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: To broaden it out to the dairy side, if the weather in winter is middling and grass is plentiful, cows might have to go in and many farmers would buy store lambs. With the new nitrates rules, can the witnesses envisage a problem in that regard? Store lamb is a bad trade at the moment, to put it simply. Is it the knock-on effect that the dairy men have the banding and the new nitrates rules...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: For the ones who do buy them, is there a problem arising there with more focus on nitrates?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Why do the witnesses think the store lamb is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: There was also confusion about the lie-back and fencing that was causing-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I even got calls from County Louth about it. There would be the lie-back and the farmers would not be able to do what they always did even though-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: That is correct.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I understood that was to change.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I refer to the trend last year in the lamb trade. We bought store lambs ourselves at home. They were worth no more in February or March than they were when we bought them. You would nearly lose money on them. The next thing was that Ramadan came along and they could not get enough lambs. In fairness, a good price was paid for them-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: With hoggets, for example.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Are we all going out the one gap at the one time? It is the same with calves. Many calves are born in the first three months of the year. The factories know damn well they are going to have a glut when the calves reach 30 months in September. Is the same thing happening with sheep? I understand the farmer cannot go all year around or anything, but a lot of lambs are coming at the one...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is too costly for early lambs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Mr. Byrne is saying the sheep sector needs an injection of funding from the Minister. Is that putting it clearly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am finished my questioning.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: In the transport sector for food and beverages there is all that different equipment. Some companies are able to be Enterprise Ireland customers and others are not approved. Why is that?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (26 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when tickets for school transport will issue to a child (details supplied) who has no other means of getting to school, and who applied and paid for their annual school bus tickets; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41505/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ministerial Responsibilities (26 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 336. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can clarify which functions have been delegated under legislation (details supplied); if an order is still in place; if not, when it expired and what has replaced it; if he or named persons consulted with the Commission for Public Service Appointments prior to issuing said order; if so, if there is any documentation...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rights of Way (26 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 442. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the legal division within his Department will make a decision in respect of a request by a person (details supplied) in December 2021 seeking its consent and-or agreement to discharge a right of way from their folio in order to facilitate the sale of said person's lands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41361/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (26 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 451. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive payment under the fodder scheme for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41493/23]