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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...

Regulations for the Sale and Distribution of Turf: Motion [Private Members] (5 May 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...rights, commonage rights, licensed rights, leased rights, inherited rights, familial rights or any other recognised ownership rights; — people who assisted the State by providing their bogs for preservation as part of the designation of boglands, and who participated in the Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme, whether they sold their bogs to the State, took compensation to buy turf...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for coming in. I will ask few quick-fire questions. Would they accept that people who own land have a right to decide what to do with it? They referred to Leitrim County Council. I know of Galway County Council. I am sure the witnesses are aware of it but you can put a set-back distance in a county development plan, as is being done in Galway at the moment, in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...but there is a huge risk. There is no point in saying there is not. There is a situation in Leitrim where some people - and it is hard to blame them in some cases - were farming fairly marginal land in places. We might not like it in Roscommon, Galway or Meath, but some of the farmers in Leitrim planted their own land and are renting land up the country. Would that be fair to say?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...a thing that was done at the time. Government needs to take a decision on that and on what it is going to do down the road. At one time - I would be in favour of this coming back - we had the Land Commission and it helped smaller farms to consolidate. We have to clear about this. If a farmer is selling his or her farm, or is going to do something with it, he or she is entitled to his...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...to do this without a licence? Under the new results-based environmental agri pilot, REAP, scheme, will it be possible for people to go into forestry and not be penalised for using a piece of land?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...with the co-operatives to show a spirit suitable for the current situation and the war. By mutual consent, both parties of a contract could change it. It would be a similar scenario to me renting land for a five or six-year period and approaching someone on a lease and telling them that I was not able to fulfil my end only for that person to say that was sound and there would be no...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Agriculture Schemes (6 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: First, to give the Minister of State a bit of background, this is an area of what one would call marginal land. Obviously, if there is a slide from bog, as the Minister of State knows because I know where he comes from and met him up in his own country, where there is bog, the land around it is marginal. These people are rearing families on small portions of land and in my opinion, they...

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...arm and a leg, and you would be nearly better off trading it in for a different one. That is the way we have gone. It will take a ferocious turnaround to get things back to where they were, and it will not be Ireland on its own; it will need to be an effort on the part of the EU and the wider world. I acknowledge the Minister of State indicated he will grant us a meeting to discuss...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Can it be put out like digestate, where it would go out through a pump system, to put it in simple terms, which would be better for people with land that would be more difficult to cover? Are the pipes in the system along the floor? Mr. Boyle might explain that, because I am trying to get my head around it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (24 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...sheds and the length of time cattle are housed in sheds? Farmers in the west would have cattle housed for way longer than their counterparts in the area from which the Chairman comes because the land quality there would be different. Farther south, cattle would be out grazing earlier, perhaps in February. What is the average length of time cattle are housed in sheds? From the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...to take it out. Is there a way that Bord na Móna will sit down with farmers where mistakes have been made and resolve those issues because if it is not suitable and if it has been a disaster, it costs to put it back into land? Where mistakes were made and people have been advised wrongly, is Bord na Móna prepared to sit down with that poor divil, an elderly person who thought...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: .... With regard to wind farms, Bord na Móna has teamed up with the ESB in Oweninny in Mayo. Mr. Breen will be aware that a company has gone into receivership and that subcontractors are badly affected. The land on which the wind farm is to be constructed is that of Bord na Móna and the project entails co-financing. Deputies Ring, Conway-Walsh, Calleary and I contacted the ESB...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Issues (1 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 833. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a copy of the completed sale agreement for a parcel of land (details supplied); if he will provide proof of the way the Congested District Board acquired ownership of 86 acres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11125/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hedgerows, Carbon and Biodiversity: Hedgerows Ireland (9 Feb 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...Brazil are cutting an area the size of a football field every day from the lungs of the world. Mr. Hickey talked about the new CAP. My understanding is that, to qualify for the CAP payment, 4% of land has to be used for biodiversity. Some 4% of a farmer's land can either be idle or in hedges or such.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hedgerows, Carbon and Biodiversity: Hedgerows Ireland (9 Feb 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...if there were no additions with some of the environmental schemes going back to 2010 or, even before that, with the rural environment protection scheme, REPS. Ms Clerkin will be familiar with the land too. There was a substantial amount of sowing under the schemes, including in Monaghan or any other county, especially those counties in the west or where there are many farmers. Do the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hedgerows, Carbon and Biodiversity: Hedgerows Ireland (9 Feb 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...think of roads and road safety too, as Senator Paul Daly said. The sides have to be trimmed or a hedgerow will come out into the middle of the road. What is the witnesses' view on handling that land? The contractor going along has mirrors and the worst thing that could happen is a bramble catching one of them. Everyone wants to have these. Farmers will buy into this and into the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Draft Common Agricultural Policy Strategic Plan 2023-2027: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...is it, or was it 2,500 trees per ha last year? We should take an holistic view of this. There is an opportunity which I have spoken of many times. Just think that there are 130,000 farmers in Ireland. Each single farm payment application is something around 32 ha. One thousand trees is an acre, generally. There are bigger farmers and smaller ones. I am just averaging it out. If you...