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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...they change the environmental rules, farmers will not be planting. Mr. Gleeson should get that into his head. It is for the simple reason that the 30 cm rule is going to get rid of a heap of land. People will then go to a higher quality of land that a tillage person or a dairy person would also be looking for because of the derogation. Mr. Gleeson is over all of the Department and he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Hedgerows are sitting on the land.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte CGA: Chairperson Designate (17 Apr 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...private and public side. You cannot have the ESB constantly having to fix wires because of that. This is one thing I would ask Ms Jupp to take up in her role. The second issue is pressure on land. Coillte are using investment funds when it comes to buying up land. It is behind the door. The investment fund is buying it, it will come into its ownership after while and farmers are in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte CGA: Chairperson Designate (17 Apr 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: There is one issue I forgot to mention, regarding the flow of water. Where land is planted, there might be a drain or a river running through it that takes water from the land beside it, but those drains have not been maintained by Coillte over the years. That means there is a backlog because, obviously, where trees are growing, there will be scrub and weeds and grass will be growing. In...

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Apr 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...Irish farmers, the nature restoration law is being opposed because it has not been thought out. It is a damnable day, one I never thought I would see, that I would be thanking someone in Italy, Poland or, I think, Türkiye or wherever that Orbán fella is, for not supporting the nature restoration law being applied. Ironically enough, the farming organisations in this country...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Antitrust Guidelines for Sustainability Agreements in Agriculture: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...well as environmental protection; reduction of pesticide use and antimicrobial resistance; and animal health and welfare. Some of the stuff done in Europe does not take into account the type of landscape where people produce food in all our countries. The difference between land in Germany and land in parts of Ireland is like chalk and cheese. I come from a part of the west of Ireland...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Antitrust Guidelines for Sustainability Agreements in Agriculture: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...in terms of pesticides. SACs are one type of designation. An NHA is another type of designation. Am I correct to say there would be more regulation with regard to pesticides and use of those lands?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Antitrust Guidelines for Sustainability Agreements in Agriculture: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I apologise for interrupting. In Ireland, we happen to own the land, thank God, but it might be moving away. It is different from most of Europe in that we have private property rights. All the farmers own their land, but it is designated because of things like the habitats directive and the nature restoration law is another piece of legislation coming from Europe. However, regulation is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 676. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a private developer is to go through the normal planning process on private lands for building Ukrainian modular accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12705/24]

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...farmers might be ranchers with a few hundred acres in the eastern part of the country. I am speaking about small farmers in the west of whom 70% have gone organic. They do not have the quality of land. They have land with peaty soil. Anyone who knows the directive knows it does not affect top-quality mineral soil and good quality land. It affects land with peaty soil. ...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (6 Mar 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 66. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person is a resident in the USA and was Irish born with a PPS number, if that person enters a five-year lease to lease owned lands, if this is tax free; if not, what is the terms and criteria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11046/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (6 Mar 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 148. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total area of land submitted at form one stage of the 20 licences issued week ending 23 February 2024 and the net area of land actually approved for the same licences, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10997/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses for coming in. I will address Ms Connolly on the land use question. The big problem is that land use pressure is going to get worse because of the nature restoration law. In forestry, we are aiming at 8,000 ha per year, even though we are not near that. Under the changes in the derogation, dairy farmers will be down from 250 kg N/ha to 220 kg N/ha and will be looking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...this. I am going through the chart on the effectiveness of agricultural measures. If I have read it wrongly, they might correct me. It is saying, and I think it is agreed, that less nitrogen on land is better. Is that fair to say? Why are mixed-species grasses, which everyone is promoting, down as low? Am I reading it right?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...digesters every day but they will not be there unless they are viable. As one of Professor Sweeney’s solutions, does he think it would help on the slurry side of it? I am not talking about the land or about growing more acres of grass to put into it, if the professor understands me correctly here.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 Feb 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 457. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if peat lands excluded from the afforestation scheme in the new forestry programme can potentially be used for other farming purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7669/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Crisis in Ireland's Inshore Fishing Industry: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...the nature restoration law. At the end of next month, it will be voted on in Brussels. I know that the proposal on marine areas has been watered down a bit, but if what they are proposing on land is anything to go by, even watered down, it would be detrimental if the likes of the fishermen were to suffer the same consequences. I therefore advise them to be fairly watchful of that. We...

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: In all fairness, it is not possible to meet the criteria for bog or peat land with fields that have shores in place every 7 yards, which the EU paid the farmers to do, and drains around the edges. It will not be possible to meet the peatland criteria for such land as it originally was 50 or 60 years ago.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: Sorry, but let us get one thing clear. I worked on this in the national parks for years. Active, raised bog cannot grow unless the land is rewetted. There is no in-between on that.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...road will bite us in the ass. If I lived in the Golden Vale, there would be no worries because of the soil type found there. It is different, though, if you live in Donegal, the west or the midlands and come from an area that has peaty soil. The same EU, as I said, gave grants for people to drain land. There is not a hope in God of achieving the required status. First, if land has...