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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (22 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for coming in. An issue was raised by the most recent group that appeared before the committee. They said they were a year waiting for the Minister and they did not get a meeting. Have the witnesses had meetings with the Minister?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (22 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The IFA has been seeking a meeting for the past year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (22 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: From what the representatives of sawmills who appeared previously before the committee were saying, they have lost faith in the Department, to put it simply. I presume the same is true for the farmer organisations,. What is the view of the witnesses in that regard?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (22 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Mr. Rushe does a bit of dairy farming. There is pressure on land at the moment around the country. How can this be resolved so that one part of the country is not taking the hit for everything, no matter which type of farming we are talking about? The IFA has looked at the grants that are being proposed at the moment for forestry. Given what we are hearing about the price of land for rent...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (22 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: We are looking at rooting up some of the trees that Coillte and others have planted on what we would call peaty ground. There is talk about rooting them up and rewetting that land. Where does all of this magical land come out of to suffice the dreams of all the different pressures that is on it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (22 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: We have seen the Gresham House set-up and, no more than the IFA, we do not agree with it. We have seen the different interests, including not-for-profit organisations, trying to buy land. I would be out talking to farmers a fair bit. If farmers with less than 50 acres were asked to plant 1 acre and to look after it well, those with 50 to 100 acres were asked to plant 2 acres and so on, we...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (22 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: They were paid to destroy them in the 1980s. The EU wanted everything ripped out of the place.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (22 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I met Mr. Fleming at a few meetings around the country, in fairness to him. In Sligo he would have seen the lack of confidence, as Mr. Rushe said, that is there now. That is going to take an awful lot of rebuilding.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (22 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The witnesses were coming in here in the afternoon.
- Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: If it is being abused in any way by the veterinary sector, will the Department be able to look at that in six months or a year?
- Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the crew from Mountbellew and Gerry Connellan from Elphin. We have discussed this Bill at committee and had the different farming organisations in. The Minister is aware of the different views in the line of fertiliser. Last year many people could not afford to spread fertiliser but I hope some of the monopolies in the context of inflated prices might be sorted out in the second...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: My fear is that, if we set a period of five years and the regulator wanted to nail something from earlier than that, we could be in danger of not tackling a full case or of letting something go. Would the Minister be open to applying a timeline if the regulator wrote to him about cases being X amount of years?
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (9 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 206. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number and the profiles of Ukrainian and IPP arrivals to County Roscommon, in tabular form, for the years 2022 and to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6224/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (9 Feb 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 207. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number and the profiles of Ukrainian and IPP arrivals to the Ballaghaderreen area of County Roscommon, in tabular form, for the years 2022 and to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6225/23]
- 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: I thank the Minister and his officials for attending. I have a couple of questions on the TB budget that was laid out. My understanding is there is not yet an agreement with the farmer organisations regarding the new testing regimes. Will that budget change?
- 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: I will address the beef and sheep part of it. In light of the sheep sector having had what was probably one of its toughest winters, and it appears that since many hoggets will stay on before they are out of the system spring lamb may not be as attractive, is there a possibility that some extra sectoral budget for sheep will be brought in? There was a scheme previously for the slaughter of...
- 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: Is the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme, TAMS, grant rising to €90,000? Is that the limit?
- 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: If a person is putting up a shed, are the solar panels separate? If a young farmer is putting up a shed and drawing 40% or 60% of the €90,000 and then decides to go solar, is that a different thing? Is it included in that €90,000?
- 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: That is what I wondered.
- 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: That is good. On the agri-climate rural environment scheme, ACRES, which the Minister outlined, is there a budget left for the 46,000 or 48,000 people? Am I correct in saying we had 46,000, 48,000 or 50,000 people at one stage in the previous scheme and they are all out of the scheme now? It is not that we are not used to having the guts of at least 50,000 people on the scheme. I welcome...