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Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jun 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...when talking about affordable houses. At the moment, we have housing agencies, councils, developers and ordinary people trying to buy a piece of land. When there are four people trying to bite one apple, the apple gets pretty scarce and dear. We need to have one body that will look after the land side or use the land we have. We are long enough talking about State land. To be honest,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition Law and Trade Associations: Discussion (1 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...of farming organisations may decide to come together with the members they represent. It was pointed out earlier by Ms Goggin that things are generally roughly the same price and, for example, if apples are 2 cent more, someone will not buy them. If the meat is the same price that the factory is quoting and the representatives people have signed up to go in to negotiate cannot do it....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition Law and Trade Associations: Discussion (1 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...members can it not collectively, because it has all the farmers in the country bar a few because not everyone will join a producer organisation either, go in and talk? Earlier we talked about the apples being the same price on Moore Street. If the beef is the same price roughly, why can we not go in and talk about base price?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Indemnity: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...-cutting, insurance and so on. They are voluntary. They are not like Mr. McHugh's set-up in Dublin, where the local authority has its own staff or employs subcontractors. We are talking about apples and oranges here.

National Broadband Plan: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jan 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...in 2016. On that day, they told us that Eir had tried to get these 350,000 households three times. It was stated to us at that time that the company would not get them because, if it did, the good apples would be gone from the tree. That has now caused this fiasco. Whether the EU wrote to me or came to me, I could not give two damns about it. What are we going to do now? We are caught...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...statement is very clear? I have spoken to Barry Kenny and in detail about services to places such as Longford and Athlone and the use of high speed trains, but we need to make sure we are not talking about apples and oranges. The Netherlands is the same size as Munster and has a population three and a half times the size of that of Munster, yet it is more economical to run trains around...

Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Statements (11 Oct 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...Stanley noted, it was said that they would not be given to it. What happened afterwards was that when a proposal was put back, our good old friends - the EU - made the State give away the good apples on the tree and left the bad apples because we could not give state aid. This needs to be put on the record. We are hearing things about what we could hang it on. Anybody looking into...

National Broadband Plan: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...Chamber. He probably heard the same; that they were fed up of promises of private operators saying what they would do and that there was no more licences being given out. Six months later, Eir got the ripe apples off the tree and I think that was the fatal mistake that was made. It is like three engines on a aeroplane. In any tender, if people fall off the wagon there is nothing...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Regulations 2018: Motion (25 Jan 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...as much as possible. There is something else I would like the Minister of State to do that would be of benefit to the country. We have talked about it over the past few months. We saw the Apple planning process in Athenry and what the company has gone through. I note that one of the same people is on the high road again, objecting to a project in Dublin. We need to forward-plan and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...that have come out, because of traffic problems. Tree huggers have been blocking developments in this regard for years and years, and we need to do something about them as well. There are people objecting. The Apple data centre in Athenry is being held up, as was the outer ring road in Galway. How many more roads will be held up? Someone who could be from the bottom end of Waterford...

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...of the European Court of Justice go on and on. We will not get a decisive answer in the near future. It will cost a great deal of money for our nation to appeal this judgment. We know that Apple is appealing it. If I go to court here as an Irish business person, will the Government offer to help me? No, it will not. It has never done that. It has acted in an unusual manner in this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank Mr. Gleeson for his presentation. A few months ago I used the analogy of an apple high up in a tree to describe the programme, which means it will be hard to attain. As much as 70% of the suckler herd is located in the west of Ireland in a region that spans the country from County Clare all the way up to County Donegal. People were frightened when they received a letter with red...

Topical Issues: Beef Data Programme (12 May 2015)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...have been doing it for years and there is a course available as well. These farmers have been involved in suckler farming for years and we need to keep them up and running. This funding is like an apple which is high up in the tree. Everyone welcomes the funding which the Minister is making available and no one is taking from that fact. However, I am expressing the genuine discontent...