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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality and the Nitrates Derogation: Discussion (15 Sep 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: A 13-month-old or 14-month-old heifer weanling is 55 kg N/ha. That is what they go down as. I ask the officials to look at that. There is an opportunity and the guys who came out to Brussels with us, namely, the Cathaoirleach and Senators Paul Daly and Lombard, think there is an opportunity under animal welfare to make a case to be able to work with the Commission on that, though I might...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality and the Nitrates Derogation: Discussion (15 Sep 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: There is one other thing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality and the Nitrates Derogation: Discussion (15 Sep 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: There was mention of force majeureand the Commissioner. There may be an avenue under animal welfare. We cannot in six months get rid of cattle. I apologise to Deputy Kerrane.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality and the Nitrates Derogation: Discussion (15 Sep 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: There is one derogation farm in Leitrim.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality and the Nitrates Derogation: Discussion (15 Sep 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Mr. Callanan might answer this question. A family farm of 60, 70, 80, 90 or 100 cows - a small farm - will be under pressure to get land, and there is no point in us codding ourselves, whereas a bigger conglomerate would have more flexibility as to where it will go. Particularly where there are small family farms with a lot of them doing the same thing, the land would not be available. It...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality and the Nitrates Derogation: Discussion (15 Sep 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I am trying to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality and the Nitrates Derogation: Discussion (15 Sep 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: If land is designated as a special area of conservation, one of the 36 things farmers are supposed to do is to get the go-ahead to put out slurry. It is the damnedest ever with what is involved. It is not the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine that is involved, it is the National Parks and Wildlife Service. There is fear in certain areas because of the pressure coming on land....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality and the Nitrates Derogation: Discussion (15 Sep 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Does the Department not agree that small family farms are the biggest losers in all of this? They do not have the numbers or the capacity to do what someone else may be able to do. Does Mr. Callanan understand what I mean? The small family farms that supply milk in many parts of the country are the ones that will really take the hit on this. They do not have the same flexibility as...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality and the Nitrates Derogation: Discussion (15 Sep 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: It is not a political question; it is a straight question. Mr. Callanan knows better than I do that someone rearing a family on a farm with 60, 70 or 80 cows does not have flexibility or acreage. If everyone around them is doing this, the land is not available. They do not have the flexibility to go 70, 80 or 100 miles for land compared to someone who has 1,000 acres.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality and the Nitrates Derogation: Discussion (15 Sep 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I am talking about small farms. They do not have flexibility and the hit is worse for them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality and the Nitrates Derogation: Discussion (15 Sep 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Can I ask one question about cattle?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality and the Nitrates Derogation: Discussion (15 Sep 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I have only one question. We touched on it earlier and said we would leave it until the end. Is the new register for movement of cattle cross-border?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for coming in. I note Dr. Cotter said the EPA goes by science. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I saw the EPA going to court stating, with regard to peat bogs, that the whole bog was hydrologically connected. As Dr. Cotter is aware, when a case was brought in the past few weeks and the EPA was asked for the evidence and science of it, it had none to produce even though the EPA believes in science. An ordinary person had to spend large amounts of money to show hydrologically and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: But Dr. Cotter stated several times-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The reason the EPA had-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: First of all, the problem is that the others unfortunately might not have had the large amounts of money that people are required to have in their arse pocket to spend on the science, hydrologically and ecologically, when they go into court to show what is needed. We did it on a private capacity with the national parks and it has been well verified and peer reviewed that they are not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Are all those monitored?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: When Dr. Deakin says the EPA is monitoring them, how often every year are samples taken of those 2,800?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: How many rivers are tested monthly?