Results 1-20 of 30 for destroyed speaker:Michael Fitzmaurice

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: There are two parties in SCEP but an outside party has destroyed those in SCEP with the figures. Does Mr. Coughlan understand me? It is not the fault of the farmer. That is what I am trying to say.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...get money but I am unsure about some of the proposals on the table about areas. Either a farmer is clear or not and that is the bottom line, rather than putting areas of danger together. It would destroy farms and whoever was the genius who came up with that needs to think again. I am looking at agri-environment schemes. There is about €26 million or €27 million of an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: They were paid to destroy them in the 1980s. The EU wanted everything ripped out of the place.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...years, we have lost 40% of livestock farmers in Europe. That is a fact. The Government can Google it. What we need to do is to encourage people to farm in rural Ireland in a sustainable way. I am not talking about destroying rivers or anything like that but I am saying the Government should not drive farmers off the land. There are certain parts of the country that will be worst...

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...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 regulation will not be accepted,...

An Bord Pleanála: Statements (15 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...The problem that is happening in this country is no more than what is happening with the HSE. A long time ago, politicians were involved in the western, southern and every health board. People would say those fellows and women were destroying it. However, have a look at the way it has gone since. The HSE is like Nanci Griffith’s “From a Distance”. We write to a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback and its Impact on the Private Forestry Sector: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I think the 15-km rule is because we have brought in the habitats directive. The EU legislation is destroying Ireland.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Risk Management (16 Jun 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...Funshinagh. There is also a problem on the Connemara-Mayo border. This will pop up in different places and we need to solve it. Regardless of whether we need legislation, the EU directive cannot destroy the people in County Roscommon.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Agriculture Schemes (6 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...outlined, is that force majeureonly lasts so long. A commitment was given that a compensation package would be put in place to try to resolve this. I am talking about where the slide went down and destroyed areas. Rivers and different parts were involved. It is not in my area but I went down to see the devastation it caused to small farms and small bits of land. Where it is situated at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...assessment appropriate assessments and screening out. It is all EU bureaucracy that is now coming in. We have seen this in turloughs and farmers are seeing it day by day. Is EU bureaucracy destroying a lot of this? It is actually banging back against resolving some of the climate issues and farmers have walked about away from it with the stuff that is there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...assessment appropriate assessments and screening out. It is all EU bureaucracy that is now coming in. We have seen this in turloughs and farmers are seeing it day by day. Is EU bureaucracy destroying a lot of this? It is actually banging back against resolving some of the climate issues and farmers have walked about away from it with the stuff that is there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...stuck and towing a valuable machine around the place. They have given a letter to that farmer that they are never coming back to do that again because they are losing money and all they are doing is destroying the field. What I am saying is an elderly person should be advised. The soil should be looked at. If I am ploughing a field, I look at the field and see is it fit for...

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Budget Statement 2021 (13 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...laid out over a five-year programme. We should be honest with people in what it is we are doing. Among many possibilities, I will call this endeavour today one thing. It is a reckless budget which is trying to destroy rural people, middle Ireland and farmers. People from middle Ireland are the people the Tánaiste said get up early in the morning and go to work. They live in rural...

Perjury and Related Offences Bill [Seanad] 2018: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Jul 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...costs of settlement for whiplash in England and Ireland. In saying that, there are people who are genuinely injured and no one is saying that they are not entitled to a settlement, but fraudulent claims are destroying this country. I have talked to people in the past week whose insurance premiums have gone from €18,000 to €50,000. Businesses cannot afford this. One...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Areas of Conservation (8 Jul 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...and all that has damn all to do with this issue. This problem involves part of a bog sliding down a mountain onto people's land and around houses. People are frightened and roads have been destroyed. A large section of the bog could come down if the bridge in question, which was built hundreds of years ago - in fairness, it has held out mightily - fails. If it goes, we will be in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Areas of Conservation (8 Jul 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...have put in for the basic payment scheme, the areas of natural constraint scheme and the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme. The bog is sliding down the steep mountain and spreading out and destroying their land. These are small family farms whose owners are working in the difficult conditions that naturally arise in bogland areas. They deserve help in this emergency. We need...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú (Atógáil) - Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (27 Jun 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: .... That is politics, however, and that is the way it goes. I will oppose the nomination, although the reason is not personal. It is because I have read the programme for Government, which will destroy agriculture and the fabric of rural Ireland and which, once again, will not deliver despite many promises. It will destroy the likes of planning. I smiled earlier when Deputy Eamon...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (10 Jun 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...if people have peat land in the mountains where sheep are reared, they would let that back into the wild. From the top of Donegal to the bottom of Kerry, perhaps excluding parts of Limerick, we are going to destroy family farms throughout that area. We need to cop on and know what we are going to do. Are we going to let these family farms go? If anyone goes down to Listowel in Kerry...

Financial Challenges Facing RTÉ and its Revised Strategy 2020-2024: Statements (Resumed) (14 Nov 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...if we will come out to RTÉ and the last question we are asked before they hang up is: "Do you need a taxi?" I smiled on Monday after they spent six hours telling people in rural Ireland how they were destroying the planet. One would swear we were going to save the world from all the research RTÉ had done, especially farmers and people living in rural Ireland, yet any time one...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...bog regenerates itself much more quickly than the raised bog. The other point made by Dr. Renou-Wilson was that she said that if one cuts on the outside of the bog, that the middle of it is destroyed. I have been with Ray Flynn from Queen's University Belfast, who I am sure Dr. Renou-Wilson knows well, and with RPS and have been on complexes of 3,000 acres. They can prove that maybe for...