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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...fairness, the Department said something a bit different. In some cases, a river is tested once a year. The results could be bad or good the next year. In other cases, such as in some places in Cork, things are being tested every 15 minutes. What criteria are used? Is it hard luck if the results are bad on the day and good luck if they are good? What sort of a system have we?

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...farmers are farming 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...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...and the die was cast. That is being honest. There is no point in us codding farmers. We need collaboration between the EPA, Teagasc - as I think Mr. Gorman said - and the Government. In west Cork, where Senator Lombard is, they did research with Teagasc and it worked out well. From my understanding there are four different jumps that have to be jumped and you cannot go down on one of...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...to anything in my life in the line of housing because I believe that people need houses. We have a shortage of houses and we need to start limiting who can object to housing projects. Why would someone in Cork object to a project in Galway? What business is it of theirs what is built in Galway? The main thing that opened the door to all of the objections and problems in planning is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is down south in Cork. What is the name of the area?

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...amendment which came in yesterday does not in any way put that to bed for farming communities around the country. We need to remember that all areas, from the top of Donegal down to parts of west Cork, out as far as Kildare and down to Monaghan and Cavan, will be affected. I want to be very clear on which proposal I am talking about. With the Commission's proposal, we are looking at the...

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...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 in 2030, but...

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...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 the Hill of Tara, good land in...

Climate Action Plan 2023: Statements (18 Jan 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...the targets, which at this stage are unachievable, there is an additive for diesel, similar to the dye added to white diesel to make it green diesel, which reduces emissions by 20%. There is a boat in Cork that operates on this type of diesel. Funnily enough, the company concerned tried to talk to the Minister for Transport, Deputy Eamon Ryan, to see why we do not do that. I have since...

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...links. I do not deny that. However, the roads were bad this morning and there was no pubic transport option for me to get to Dublin and back home again tonight. It seems there are two capitals in Ireland now, namely, Cork and Dublin, because 12 out of the 15 Ministers are from there. There is the DART, Luas, taxi or bus to take people from those places home tonight. The rest of us...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Flooding of Lough Funshinagh: Lough Funshinagh Group (26 Oct 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...is moving forward. It cannot stand still. It has to be driven on. One important point is that this is not just about Lough Funshinagh. This is about any part of the country, and we see it in Cork, Dublin and Connemara. In any part of the country where this crops up again, we cannot wait six or seven years to solve it. Today’s witnesses will be the test case in resolving...

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...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 all their life. The...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Mineral Oils Tax (27 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...that are being used in all of this. On the turf issue, there are people in rural areas - and in the constituencies of both the Minister and the Minister of State in towns in counties Laois and Cork - who will buy a couple of trailer loads of turf. On the other hand, and this is the reality, many of these people are on, say, €13,000 a year with the pension and they get the fuel...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Pig Industry: Discussion. (13 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...as against the 93%? I have talked to the two producers in County Roscommon. Any of them I have talked to so far have said that they are losing phenomenal money. Even pig producers in Tipperary, Cork and other places will tell you that. I ask Mr. Cullinan to explain how he has come up with the figure of 7%?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...Taoiseach might not be worried about ten families in County Roscommon but I am because they are my constituents. He might worry about flooding out the road in Portrane or in his constituency in Cork. I know about jobs throughout the country, in Doonbeg in Clare, in Galway and in several other parts of the country, where houses are at risk or will fall into the sea, and because these...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...goes into a tractor, is €1.40, kerosene is €1.35, white diesel is between €1.85 and €2, in some places around Dublin, and petrol has gone up to €2.05. I understand that we have reserves in Cork. Are we going to do something about this situation? I got 11 calls from bus drivers yesterday who tendered with the Department of Education to bring children to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...if we are stopped at traffic lights in Dublin and watch the shears taking down the buildings the rubble comprises concrete, mortar, gravel and cement. Throughout the country, be it Galway, Dublin, Cork, Limerick, there is a lot of what we call "muckaway" being shifted. In Dublin alone there are 3,000 to 4,000 loads per day. One third of everything being taken out is concrete, stone and...

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...land where you are born, you farm it and families are brought up on it. We need clarification from Mr. Callanan. If a farmer wants to farm, 170 is the figure for the nitrates, be the farmer in Cork, Dublin or Donegal. Is Mr. Callanan saying those farmers will be left at that if they wish or that there will be a scheme if they want to do something different with their land in the line of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Directive, Water Quality and Pollution: Discussion (13 Oct 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Does the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage account for the waste from sewage treatment plants in Dublin, Cork and Limerick and tie that up with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine? The EPA said that is what happens.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Collection and Recycling of Farm Plastics: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...the witnesses for coming in. Looking back at our previous meeting, Mr. Moloney stated that there are 10,000 to 11,000 tonnes of waste around Ireland. I ask him to break that down. In the Kerry-Cork area, how many tonnes are there?