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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: That is perfect. I was looking at it for farmers. Am I right in saying that farmers who sow broadleaves get €28,000 over a ten-year period, including the planting?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Where I am just a bit lost is in relation to the Coillte profits. What is going on? Is it correct that Coillte made a profit last year of €124 million?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I refer to the total profit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: That is better still. What is the projected profit for this year, roughly speaking? I am not tying Ms Hurley down to €5 million or €10 million. I just want to know roughly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: When Coillte had everything paid, what did it have?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Lovely. What does Ms Hurley think it will be this year? I mean roughly. I am not tying her down.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Would it be more than €100 million? That is all I am asking.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: That is okay. I am not trying to catch Ms Hurley out. What I am trying to establish is if we are looking at 3,500 ha a year, why is Coillte not buying it itself? I have done the figures at a fairly high rate. Coillte would be giving a good price for land and a fund of €30 million. Why is it that it has not gone down that road? What is the game? Are the investment funds that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: How much is the reforestation cost?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: We still have €77 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I do not know what sort of accountants Coillte has and will put the following to Ms Hurley, as the head of Coillte. If I has 100 acres of land and 25 acres of land came up for sale back the road from me, I would have a fair go at it and someone would give me the money somewhere. Coillte has 440,000 ha of land around the country yet it is not fit to invest in less than a quarter of that,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I can answer the Chairman. A faceless investment company will buy the land in the community in opposition to farmers so that Coillte will not get a bad name for doing so. That is the game that is going on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Before any deal is done and before anything is signed and delivered, there is an onus on Coillte to meet this committee and the Minister. I make that suggestion because I fear there is a different skin in the game. The single farm payment has been changed. At one time you needed a portion of your land clean. If there are payments on land that is bought, will the vulture fund draw on it?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Coillte has 440,000 ha and we are talking about 100,000 ha more. Coillte has 33 wetlands in its arse pocket that it could sell to either the National Parks and Wildlife Service or some other entity of the State because otherwise this land is going out of the equation.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The Taoiseach is well aware of the housing situation and the construction sector around the country. There is a dire need to get work done and to get houses built. I know the Government is bringing Bills forward in the coming weeks. Regarding the construction sector, I acknowledge the Minister, Deputy McGrath, revised figures for what we would call Government jobs that contractors would...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. I acknowledge the additional people working in the economy. I am talking about when a client, be it the State or a private client, hires a main contractor. At the moment, some of those are going into liquidation. Unfortunately, many seem to be coming from Northern Ireland, from the trend I have observed. The subcontractor, which is a smaller outfit,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (6 Dec 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 319. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) who applied for a bus ticket on 25 April 2022 for transport to school will receive this ticket; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60761/22]

Address by H.E. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (1 Dec 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: President von der Leyen is welcome to Ireland. As a supporter of the old EEC, I wonder where we are going in the EU. This is for the simple reason that, in my opinion, the European Union is like marriage; it is either love or divorce. People either buy into everything or they do not. I welcome what President von der Leyen said about the UK. We need the UK, especially in the agricultural...

Seanad: Comhshuí de Dháil Éireann agus de Sheanad Éireann - Joint Sitting of the Houses of the Oireachtas - Address by H.E. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (1 Dec 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: President von der Leyen is welcome to Ireland. As a supporter of the old EEC, I wonder where we are going in the EU. This is for the simple reason that, in my opinion, the European Union is like marriage; it is either love or divorce. People either buy into everything or they do not. I welcome what President von der Leyen said about the UK. We need the UK, especially in the agricultural...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (1 Dec 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 11. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has made any decision on modular homes for the homeless or social housing other than for asylum seekers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59852/22]