Results 441-460 of 7,216 for speaker:Michael Fitzmaurice
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Sector (17 Jan 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 1289. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the contractual arrangements between a company (details supplied) and an organisation. [1966/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Sector (17 Jan 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 1290. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the current contractual obligations of a company (details supplied) are compliant with EU legislation. [1967/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Sector (17 Jan 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 1291. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason or by whom a company (details supplied) was selected to work in unison with an organisation, given similar corporations operate here. [1968/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Sector (17 Jan 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 1292. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a conflict of interest arises between two independent companies operating on behalf of two different states, competing in the same world beef market industry. [1969/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Sector (17 Jan 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 1293. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the interests of a company (details supplied) which primarily promotes the genetics of Angus and Hereford breeds is contrary to the interests of the majority of suckler farmers in developing our preferred continental blood lines. [1970/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Sector (17 Jan 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 1294. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the current policy within an organisation (details supplied) on genetics is overly influenced by a private New Zealand corporation whose interests are not in Ireland's world renowned continental blood lines. [1971/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Correspondence (14 Dec 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 316. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will give clarity to Roscommon County Council on a query which they have whereby an applicant’s application (details supplied ) requires for safety three walls to be removed and rebuilt under council notice, with one remaining wall being left in place; to give direction to the council on this to allow for the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: A few weeks ago the Tánaiste was taking Leaders' Questions and I brought up a difficult case in County Roscommon of a youngster who has autism. He basically rips 20 T-shirts a week, takes out everything from the fridge at night, and can go out and damage the car. His father was at his wit's end and actually lost his job over it. His father was looking for residential care for his...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What the Taoiseach has said does not give great hope for those parents who are waiting at the moment. In fact, I know of a parent today who had to go to the other end of the country to pay for a consultation and a diagnosis. It is not acceptable to have to travel 120 or 130 miles to try to get a diagnosis and to pay for it themselves rather than the State helping them out. While it...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: First, I thank the witnesses for coming in. I will be quick and I ask for short, quick answers. There is a lot of confusion about the SCEP. If I have an enclosed herd and my cows were four or five star and they came down to three stars, am I correct that nothing changes while I am in SCEP? Is that right or wrong?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Right. That is for the cow. If I have an enclosed herd and I bought a four or five star bull, which bulled the cows last summer, and I have calves coming forward, even if my cows have been reduced to two stars, and my bull has been reduced to two stars, are the heifer calves coming forward that I hold on my farm eligible under SCEP at this time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: They are not eligible for the person going forward in the SCEP.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is it correct that if I am selling them they are not eligible either?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: That is going to have dire consequences for the people who have signed up to SCEP if the figures have gone wrong on their farm.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: There will be dire consequences.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: That is the first point. I want to get my head around this. I follow the kills in factories and over the last four or five years, even with all our genomics in dairy and beef, overall, we have lighter carcasses. Mr. Coughlan will probably be able to give me a breakdown between beef and dairy. If we want to talk about carbon, we are now killing four cattle to probably three going back...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Mr. Coughlan said they have gained weight. Why do 24 of the top 50 on the new proposal have one star for carcass weight?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: It is pretty important when you are killing them, on the bullock side.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What is meant by resistance to TB, if ICBF only uses TB test responses in TB breakdown animal cohorts as the measurement of resistance?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: There is not one scientific test to say it is right.