Results 1-20 of 57 for kerry speaker:Michael Fitzmaurice

Report of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Motion (4 Jul 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...Padraig Walshe, who, God rest him, was with Dan Brennan the day he appeared before the committee. I think of Mr. Walshe. This is not just about Dan Brennan. This could be a farmer in Donegal, Kerry, Sligo, Tipperary or somewhere else. I do not care what Department said what down through the years. What happened in this case stinks to the high heavens, to be quite frank. I am no...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...support a Government that is pursing some of the policies that are being pursued. I ask the Taoiseach to hit the ground running. When he does that, the first place he might go, before he goes to Kerry, is Lough Funshinagh, County Roscommon. We are getting word this evening that the water is rising towards the nearby village. This is an emergency. In fairness to the Minister, Deputy...

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...it. The reason this was done, and the EU gave them grants to do it, was to make more viable small farmers with 30 acres, 40 acres or 50 acres in the west, north west, down as far as west Cork and parts of Kerry and the midlands so they could earn a living and rear a family. This is what they have done for years. People in here speak about ACRES. ACRES has nothing to do with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Jan 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...in different areas of the country at the moment. Teagasc's figures and those of the EPA are totally different at the moment. They are compiling that at present. Let us take Listowel, County Kerry, because I know it fairly well. There are cows out in fields that were originally peat bog. How do you get those to favourable status?

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (5 Jul 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: .... It goes from the top of Donegal, down through Monaghan, Cavan and that area, comes down through Longford, Offaly and a bit of Kildare, takes in all of the west and goes down through Clare and parts of Tipperary to Kerry, and there are pockets in other places, such as parts of west Cork. Outside of that, there are smaller pockets and I am not saying there are no other places, but the...

Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...Minister should have a look at Article 4(2) which refers to rewilding where the Minister is from; the mountains in the west of Ireland. Bear in mind, one third of the country will be most affected. Kerry, west Cork, the west coast and the midlands will be caught with much of this. The Minister talks about achieving this with State land. Bord na Móna can achieve a certain amount...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...it will decimate a certain part of the country. If what I have talked about is totalled, it is at least 2 million acres. That 2 million acres will go from the top of Donegal down to the bottom of Kerry or out to part of west Cork. It will come out to the midlands. It definitely will not, however, touch the Golden Vale because there are no peatlands there. It definitely will not touch...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (17 Dec 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...see what is happening in rural areas. I urge the Taoiseach, for the next two and a half years, to think of the people I have mentioned and to take on board that there is more to Ireland than Dublin and Cork. There is also Donegal, Kerry, Galway, Louth and all the other places around the country.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...amount of land involved and analysed the position. Some land sells for €20,000 or €25,000 per acre. A great deal of land that is of lesser quality is to be found in the west - down as far as Kerry - the north west and the midlands. There are also parts of Tipperary and other places where the land is not of great quality. When you add the percentage in that regard and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Nov 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I have one final question. Looking at the pesticide and designation side of the proposal large swathes of land from the top of County Donegal down to the bottom of County Kerry and out beyond the River Shannon could be affected. Does Teagasc have any concern about the wording of the proposals in relation to pesticides? The term "sensitive areas", could refer to a province or half a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agricultural Schemes: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...cattle twice, you built up €700 or €800 per hectare. Is he telling me that young farmer is not as valuable to us in agriculture as the person who is getting €700 or €800? Is a hectare in Mayo, Kilkenny or Kerry or wherever not to be treated the same, the way we try to treat all farmers with fairness? My next question is for Mr. Keane, who highlighted the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Regulations (20 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...he tried to do to Ireland. The Minister used the word "voluntary". This is bringing into law a regulation that will affect people with land containing peaty soils. The Minister should go down to Kerry, where most of the cows for the dairy sector are reared, to the west, to the north west and out to the midlands, where land has been reclaimed for years and where families make a living....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Regulations (20 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...A regulation seeks to bring something into law. This regulation will not be accepted, just so the Minister knows. He is hearing it loud and clear here. From the top of Donegal to the bottom of Kerry and out as far as Cork and the midlands, he will destroy family farms if, by 2050, the plan is that the Government will rewet the ground that these farmers have spent years trying to farm...

Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (15 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...the most pristine rivers but when it comes into Ballymoe, because the upgrade had not been done on the sewage treatment plant there, the river is damaged there. That is what is happening in Wexford, Kildare, Connemara, Kerry, Donegal and wherever. It is "not in my back door" stuff. That aspect needs to be looked at. On the water abstraction issue, we should be looking at it in a...

An Bord Pleanála: Statements (15 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...there a problem with the traffic there. If they look at a house around Dublin, they know there is a problem somewhere there. However, I am damn sure they do not know what the problems are in Connemara, Donegal, Kerry or wherever. Their ideas and what they believe people need are completely different from what people actually need in certain areas. There is a major problem there to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Milk Price Contracts: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...everything stood as it was, we would not be here talking about this because Ornua would have no case to answer. However, we are in wartime. I am no expert in milk but I have spoken to farmers in Kerry today who have 50 cows, and those farmers are on their knees. A farm with 50 cows is a family farm. Another farmer has 230 or 240 cows and he also is on his knees. In certain areas some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Draft Common Agricultural Policy Strategic Plan 2023-2027: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: .... Mr. Kelly should think about the farmers around this country who went down with stone shores years ago on small farms and, with spades, shored it or gravel tunnelled it. There are dairy cows in Kerry and a lot of the west is shored land. Mr. Kelly knows the terrain probably as well as I do. To tell those farmers they will rewet the land would be like a red rag to a bull. Anyone who...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...a house, four of these local authorities would not ask if you owned a house before. In Roscommon at the moment, which is scandalous in my opinion, if you own a house, whether it is in Wicklow, Kerry, or Donegal, you move to Roscommon because of work or you decide to move home to the family farm, if you say you owned a house anywhere in Ireland before this, you are not granted planning....

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...becomes a less complicated process. Unfortunately, the planning system depends an awful lot on what county people are living in. I will comment on one council now, and this is factual. If people bought a house in Wicklow or Kerry years ago, lived there for a while and then sold that house to return home to take up farming or whatever, those people will not be approved for planning...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Agriculture: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...that caught my eye most, as discussed by Deputy Carthy, is the number of peatlands that are being farmed around the country, whether they are in mountainous or lowland areas such as those in County Kerry, where there are a lot of dairy cows. We must remember that in the 1970s and 1980s, the EU and Irish Governments gave grants to put shores every 7 m or 8 m apart and to gravel tunnel them...