On the Record: Michael Fitzmaurice TD discusses potential for new rural party 

I wish this man was a TD in my voting area

You make a party you have my vote,the centre right partys are no longer conservative and the leftist partys are insane,we need common sense politics back

Well done Michael

It's time for Irish farmers in Ireland to wake up and put the brakes on the government qnd eu

Spot on mick

Michael Fitzmaurice is head and shoulders the best td in the country, I genuinely wish he was in my constituency

If Klaus says it then that's the policy!

Well said michael but we all need to shout now before these's new laws are in place. As a farmer im willing to help d environment as much as possible and in d past 2 years ive halved my chemicial fertilizer and started dibble barring my slurry and added rain water to it to spread it out and cover more ground. Even have ad blue in d tractor. Got solor panels put up. Ive planted nearly a kilometre of new hedgerow to divide fields. I think each farmer should be evaluated on the new measures his taken and then be giving a plan to work with for the environment. We all love our land and want to help and farm it the best way possible with nature.

the man talks a lot of sense ............!

Loving the Hitachi sleán Michael

Good Luck Michael As an ex Irish Farmer living in Rural Australia We are aghast at what’s happening in Ireland in the name of climate change Very little practicality there But then the French Queen did say let them eat crumbs No balance anymore in Ireland Easy living here We didn’t allow the country to be filled with social welfare recipients Here you work for a living

A lot said in a short time, well said,

He is the only one person in the parliament to say the truth he talks for the people who elected him and like not elected and still a minister who will dictate to the people

Brilliant I will be voting for the farmers 1 million o/o

Id vote for a party of sence and im not a farmer i think the current lot are off there head

We need to change fast

Welll said Michael.... Let's walk the walk now.... you will have unreal support and I for one will be at any meeting you organise. LETS GO MICHAEL AND BE REMEMBERED FOR GENERATIONS FOR SAVING RURAL IRELAND 🇮🇪

Lots of common sense.

we live in a profoundly sick society...and i'm not even a farmer

Form the party Michael, you'll get plenty of votes, everyone is sick of FF/FG and don't even mention them green yokes.

And then as a reaction an urban party, which will have a lot more voters. Cop on.

He is right. Agriculture is carrying the burden of change. The fossil fuel industry is playing a blinder by funding the enviro fundamentalists to destroy agri. Enviromental change should be carried by all fairly. I woulf support a new party.

Common sense approah the political parties are only trailing in his footsteps

Not a hope farming population now is too low They did it in the 30s with clann na talmhnan when we had 4 times the number of farmers and it didn't work.

faemers always complainung,their greed knows no bounds

Depopulation

He is old. He has a skewed view of the world. He wants to preserve the status-quo. He has no grasp whatsoever of the gravity the the problem humans are trying to sort out. The “I’m a realist” is the best line ever. Only ever used by people trying to put themselves above all others. He looks like someone who does most of his thinking and talking with a glass in his hand. He is only there to cause trouble. No ramifications for his actions. The Dutch have been the most successfully food producers in the World for a long long time. I not suggesting for a second that they are looking after their land. They do however have a great phrase, that very well sums up the problem caused by synthetic agriculture and that is, fertiliser feeds the Father not the Son.

Stick to the digger where is the other fraud Ming

If this is the voice of rural Ireland we are well and truly fucxked. No ideas except pulling and dragging in the bog with an old Hitachi.

Nothing inspiring here…

It’s not just the farmers how many houses will be flooded out when they wet these lands

Wish he was Scottish,,