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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I was looking at a map on which the whole of the country was red, meaning it needs additional measures. I was looking at some of the areas and there would be more cows in a corner of some counties than there would be in the whole of the county. What is the reasoning behind the EPA report on that? Second, if I am a farmer and I do not draw grants, it does not affect me, does it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I will ask a few questions and get it on record. Regarding the EPA, we saw a case last week where evidence was required from the EPA and it was not able to produce it. Let us say farming organisations had a body or scientist that wanted to look at all the information. Has all of this been checked? I am involved in a group water scheme where you keep samples of the water. Is there a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: My first question is probably for Mr. Flynn. Do we know for sure whether the inorganic nitrogen output of soils is directly correlated with the end concentration in rivers? Turning to Mr. Callanan, there are farmers on derogation who have 500 to 700 cows. Was there any attempt to try to protect farmers with smaller herds, for example, 100 cows? We hear of farmers who have to go from 80...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Do we know?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is Mr. Flynn telling me some are monitoring every ten minutes while the EPA might be only sampling a thing once a year, once every six months or once every three years?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: To me, that is no system.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I spoke about group water schemes supplying water 20 years ago and supplying it now. With regard to testing, is it at a higher standard now? I know that when water is supplied to people, it is a completely different ball game. It is chalk and cheese compared with 20, ten or even five years ago. The standard keeps going up.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is that the same so that if we had the same standard as we had ten years ago, we would still be in trouble and classed as bold boys?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: That is all I wanted to know.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on Ireland's Forestry Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (5 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Annex I is for a designated area and people could not plant in that area last year or the year before. What is the question about that? That was there before. The EIA was there last year and the year before. All of these things that Mr. Dunne has rhymed off were there before. How could it be questioned again when people could not plant on it before this, or are they to go planting...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on Ireland's Forestry Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (5 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Annex I came in back in 1999. I know a bit about it because it concerned bogs. Let no one say that for the last 23 years we did not know about it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on Ireland's Forestry Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (5 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Let us cut to the chase. Is it 50 cm and 30 cm that are the different options in the debate at the moment? Is that right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on Ireland's Forestry Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (5 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Am I correct in saying that the Commission is looking for no more than a depth of 30 cm and the Department is talking about 50 cm? Is that right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on Ireland's Forestry Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (5 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: This is what Senator Boyhan is asking. What are the main issues?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on Ireland's Forestry Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (5 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What is the solution to that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on Ireland's Forestry Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (5 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Let us look at the 50 cm and the 30 cm. What is the solution to this debate? What has the Department written back to the Commission? Is it that we are sticking with 50 cm or going back to 30 cm? What has the Department said? That is all we are looking for - what the Department said back to the Commission.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on Ireland's Forestry Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (5 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Does the Department have to do backup on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on Ireland's Forestry Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (5 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Does the Department have to do hydrology, ecology and all of that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on Ireland's Forestry Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (5 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: If they are planted on 50 cm, which the Department was looking for, is that okay as well?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Update on Ireland's Forestry Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (5 Jul 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Why was the Department’s position 50 cm if it is doing that and if 30 cm was working?