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- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Michael Fitzmaurice: Will that budget change? Has the Department decided and that is it?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Michael Fitzmaurice: Provided they have an existing licence.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Michael Fitzmaurice: It is not that it is available now. It is just that when we get going, better will be available.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Under the programme for Government, Ireland is projected to plant 450,000 ha of forestry between now and 2050. That is about 1.1 million acres. In 2023, with all the debacle that has gone on with forestry over recent years, farmers, if they want to apply to plant trees, cannot do so because the Department will tell them that it is waiting for state aid approval. Along with that - this...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I can email them to the Taoiseach.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The Taoiseach said first that the Government supports the proposal, and then he said it has grave concerns. If it has grave concerns, how is it that every other country, including the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden, has written back already and most of the countries in the EU have written back opposing this in is present form? Why have we not written back and outlined the things in it that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dangerous Dog Breeds and Sheep Worrying: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank Ms Creedon for her attendance. Every dog can be dangerous. You could have the quietest dog in the world and it could bite. I have seen it myself. It could be a Bichon Frise or a collie that is after cattle. If children come into a house, the dog is not used to children and the children pull the dog's tail, the dog can nip them. You can watch all the patterns and all the things...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dangerous Dog Breeds and Sheep Worrying: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Cattle farmers take out public liability insurance so that if our cattle break out on the road and a car hits them, we cover the cost for people who might damage their car if our animal is in the wrong but a dog can run out in front of a car and do whatever it wants or go after sheep. Generally every farmer with a dog has it covered on its farm policy but I think everyone will have to go...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dangerous Dog Breeds and Sheep Worrying: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I would go further because you will not see a dog after sheep in the middle of the night. We need a system whereby if there is blood on sheep, you could get some kind of evidence.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dangerous Dog Breeds and Sheep Worrying: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: With the best will in the world, it is hard to do because there could be 100 dogs in the area and you would be scratching your head.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dangerous Dog Breeds and Sheep Worrying: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: That would not work. What I am saying is that if we want to have dogs, and people are paying €800, €1,000 or €1,500 for small little gougers of dogs, we should have insurance. If you are able to pay that, the other parts of it would not over-rob you.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dangerous Dog Breeds and Sheep Worrying: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I missed the beginning of the meeting due to a vote. What thoughts do the witnesses have on banning dogs from going up mountains while ewes are on them before lambing? There is a huge danger with ewes in lamb.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dangerous Dog Breeds and Sheep Worrying: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I know but they are not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dangerous Dog Breeds and Sheep Worrying: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Will the Department look at that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dangerous Dog Breeds and Sheep Worrying: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes, but will the Department look at the problem?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dangerous Dog Breeds and Sheep Worrying: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Generally, ewes are heavy in lamb from January-February until May if it is a mountain area. That is four of five months when it is deadly dangerous if there are dogs. Even if ewes see a dog while being heavy in lamb, they can turn over. It is deadly dangerous. The Department might look at that. I want to keep going because I want to let Deputy Carthy back in and we could have votes....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dangerous Dog Breeds and Sheep Worrying: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Laboratories are able to test all calves that are born for bovine viral diarrhoea, BVD and the beef data and genomics programme, BDGP, will come in. There is no reason we cannot do this if we are committed to doing it. Tracing a dog from a sample is doable. It is also possible to do it for horses. We must make this foolproof. The day is gone of a dog running around without a microchip...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dangerous Dog Breeds and Sheep Worrying: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: One of the witnesses might want to include my points. There is no point in making points in here all our lives and nothing happening.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the Acting Chairman for accommodating me, as a non-member of the committee. I welcome the witnesses from the RSA. A year or 18 months ago, I asked during Leaders' Questions about the situation whereby 100 driving test instructors were being let go. Has the current difficulty, with large numbers of young people looking to get their licence, stemmed from that? Why were those...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: We do not want something said here that will blow back at the witnesses. Realistically, when will waiting times be brought back to normal?