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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is on farmers' land. However, it is a way leave.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...from Ballymore Eustace to Leixlip, for instance. It goes cross-country, but all that ground has to be reinstated because of the way leave. Whose responsibility is it? Is it the farmer on whose land the fertiliser is put on? The civil contractor has to reinstate all the ground, put in the pipe and do everything as a contact with Irish Water or otherwise. That is all. If it is an issue...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: We will talk about peaty land if we can.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Bord na Móna is rewetting some of its ground but I am not overly concerned about that. I am talking about farm families who reclaimed land - be it 10 acres, 20 acres or whatever - to make their farms sustainable. That is the big concern we have for every farmer. Every county will be affected by this. It is not just about what will happen outside my back door; this is going to affect...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...that went on in forestry, but, funnily enough, the hierarchy in forestry seems to be the same hierarchy for this environmental scheme. There are two years to prepare for it at the moment. The generic land-mapping system is giving trouble. The whole basis of where we are going in this scheme is very hard for a smaller farmer on 30, 40 or 50 acres, whom the scheme should be targeted at to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: As we discussed earlier, a myriad of people sow a few spuds or have a garden without cattle or a herd number. Some people have land but are not involved with the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine. Cross-country pipelines are being done providing fertiliser for companies. What is the theory to solve all those?

Tailte Éireann Bill 2022: Second Stage (22 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...we need clarification. Regarding the PRA, everything used to be based in Dublin but it now has a branch in Roscommon. In fairness, the work it does in Roscommon is mighty for people in the west of Ireland. That is the first thing to say. I want to get my head around how the merger is to be done. Will the three bodies work from the same place and will there be more expertise? It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Industry: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...I want to get clarified. Am I picking it up right that if someone is in the industry in Norway, a licence takes three, four or six months or whatever, like a normal planning process, whereas in Ireland it is 11 years? It was said there are 2,000 direct and 16,000 indirect employees. It is a high ratio at 8:1. Could our guests explain that to me? Is the problem that the likes of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Regulations (20 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: If the Minister supports the regulation in its present form, he will be a traitor to the people in rural Ireland. That is the fact. What has been proposed would make Cromwell blush when compared with what he tried to do to Ireland. The Minister used the word "voluntary". This is bringing into law a regulation that will affect people with land containing peaty soils. The Minister should...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Regulations (20 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am talking about land that is reclaimed, that cattle are on.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Regulations (20 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The Minister talked about forestry. It is a good job there might be someone in the EU who will stand up for their citizens. Sweden and Finland are to oppose the regulation, just so the Minister knows. He talks about the past 50 years. Over the past 50 years the EU has given grants to these farmers to shore their land and to make a living on marginal farms. Is the Minister the person who...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Regulations (20 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: You want to rewet all their land.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Regulations (20 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: There will be no mechanism of flooding people's land.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Regulations (20 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 58. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will oppose the proposed European Union regulation on land and peat restoration with reference to the biodiversity strategy and climate strategy as part of the European Union Council of Ministers, given that the consequences for Irish farming will be detrimental if this regulation is left in its present form...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Regulations (20 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: This question concerns COM (2022) 304, to ask the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will oppose the proposed European Union regulation on land and peat restoration with reference to the biodiversity strategy and climate strategy as part of the European Union Council of Ministers, given that the consequences for Irish farming will be detrimental if this regulation...

Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (15 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...in Ahascragh at the moment, where the company is finishing a job. That is great. I also know that an upgrade is coming in Ballymoe, County Galway. I will tell Members the reason. It is because of a river called the Island river. The media will talk about all of these farmers, what they are doing and not doing, and they are wrong no matter which way they turn. The facts are that this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...they becoming harder to get? Will they be gone further down the line? A farmer cannot just get rid of ten or 20 cows when different rules come in just because he or she does not have the extra land that is required. There is not much extra land being made around the country at the moment. We cannot just drop a bomb on top of someone. We would nearly need a just transition....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (20 Jul 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...this? What must the average farmer do? Will they have to stay under the nitrates threshold of 170 kg per hectare for the next seven or eight years? Some public representatives who never farmed land in their lives have spoken of a need to have a cull. What are the guidelines or where are we with this? Can the officials give us some information? We have to talk to the ordinary people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (20 Jul 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...to the problem. That message needs to go out there rather than what is heard in the media about the farmer, which is just propaganda. It is not acceptable, and we will not accept it. Rural Ireland has to be stood up for. It is our land, our private property, in our country that will help the person who is able to do nothing about the climate problem. Farmers should be treated with...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Legislative Programme (31 May 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...the summer recess. I have looked at schedules and maybe I have missed something but I cannot see it there. The Government does not realise the torture this is causing. There are people who want to plant land and cannot because this Bill is held up. There are people who want to build a house and cannot because the very minute a council looks at the application, the area is put down as...