Results 61-80 of 266 for long speaker:Michael Fitzmaurice

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Medical Aids and Appliances (26 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 286. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the €75 support for persons with long-term medical incontinence to help meet the average annual cost of disposing of medical incontinence products will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20240/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: How long is that going on?

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...State bodies were involved. Even the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine was involved. The problem as we move on, however, as Deputy Harkin 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...

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...five months to resolve it in County Donegal or six months to resolve it in Pollatomish, it should be in between the two in this case. It could even take seven months. This has been going on for a long time, however. It is dragging on. In fairness, I see that something like 160,000 tonnes of peat needs to be moved. These people need clarity. They need to know where they are going....

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: ...a dysfunctional Department for a number of years that has let this deteriorate. The heart is gone out of it. If one mentions forestry now to farmers they run away because the paperwork is a mile long. At the moment if farmers want to apply for a forestry licence it is all about the environmental impact assessment appropriate assessments and screening out. It is all EU bureaucracy that...

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: ...a dysfunctional Department for a number of years that has let this deteriorate. The heart is gone out of it. If one mentions forestry now to farmers they run away because the paperwork is a mile long. At the moment if farmers want to apply for a forestry licence it is all about the environmental impact assessment appropriate assessments and screening out. It is all EU bureaucracy that...

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 (24 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...me through something I am trying to get into my head. On slat mats, Mr. Boyle said the animal thrives quicker, but Teagasc did research that found it actually ends up that the animal is not as long on the farm, to put it simply. Can Mr. Boyle explain where he was talking about the solid manure not mixing on the slat when it goes down and how it does not allow methane? I want to get my...

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...willow and farmers bought into it around the country around that time. I have a case in Mayo where a farmer bought into it and was told - I am aware the witnesses did not know this - that it would be going up the country a long distance from Mayo and that, for example, Lanesborough and Shannonbridge would be going down the willow road as well. I understand fully that the court case and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: How long would it take to get more of them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...we tended to do in Europe, and I mention the Green Deal. We are becoming the sales people. If it is dirty, we get Brazil or some other country or continent to produce it. We will sell it on as long as it does not produce carbon emissions. It should be brought home to us now that heat and food are two of the most important things. We are stuck at the moment. We are like birds in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: How long is that pathway?

National Driver Licence Service: Motion [Private Members] (2 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...Australia and different countries from where you do not have problems getting a driving licence here. As Deputy McNamara pointed out, a person has to go around the rigamarole for I do not know how long trying to get licences sorted. We should nearly have a one-stop shop and it would be a good idea for the likes of the post offices. Imagine that there are now companies setting up in...

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...is a major problem. Some of this has to be fizzled out. Everyone now thinks they can shoot to the courts and basically block whatever housing is coming near their area. Everything is granted so long as it in someone else's area but not at my back door. Some of the decisions I have seen would cause anyone to raise an eyebrow. There might be some wording left out in some bit of a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Legislative Programme (24 Nov 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...Minister of State, Senator Hackett, was in the Chamber earlier. Forestry is being help up around the country at the moment because this legislation has not passed. A civil servant has probably written a long speech for the Minister of State. I know he is genuine about things. The facts are that there will be talk of some other Bill or something else being attached to this legislation....

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...carbon while keeping the stock we have, and perhaps even having more. He is putting that out there as basically a new way of going forward, compared to all the other stuff we hear out there. How long does he believe it will take to attain this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...Ms Rohan, Mr. Rohan and Ms Collins. There is no family who has not come near a tragedy in their lives. As the witnesses were talking earlier, I remembered what happened to my own brother-in-law a long time ago. He had five young kids and another on the way. Unfortunately, he fell off a load of straw. A few things touched me. Senator Paul Daly brought up a problem with bank accounts...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...problem. I ask the witnesses to give us the full printout of the legal advice document. It should be standard under freedom of information. The taxpayers are paying. Our guests should look long and hard at a providing course that will allow a qualified person, for example, a person in the merchants who is qualified to give it out, to achieve a certain standard. To be clear, I am...

Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...again. Turning to transport, if we had these one million electric cars that have been talked about, where would we be today when we are on the cusp of our lights going out? Moving to school buses, a long time ago when I was going to school in the 1980s, there was a school bus in every village. Now we are not able to bring the kids to school. Instead, sports utility vehicles, SUVs,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Aug 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the Minister of State for coming in. I will do quick-fire questions in order not to hog the discussion too long because I do not want to go through essays. This committee, probably three meetings ago, got an undertaking from the Minister of State's Department that we would get a split between thinnings and clear fell and the tonnages or the cubes. We have also written to her...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Alleged Issues in the Horse Racing Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Jul 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the Chairman. At long last, I got in. I thank the witnesses. I concur with Deputy Kehoe that we need to go back to last night's programme. I am not going down that road now. Let me go back to the previous questions Deputy Kehoe asked in relation to authorised officers. Am I correct in saying that the Department handled all this years ago and then there was a change that it...