Results 181-200 of 18,475 for speaker:Michael Creed
- Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)
Michael Creed: On page 10 of a 15 page script the Minister commenced to address the issues of marketing, labelling and consumer interests. Members on this side of the House are patient.
- Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)
Michael Creed: The Minister's Department received a report relating to substantial transformation and the abuse of consumer rights from the food labelling group in 2002. For five years she sat back and did nothing about it.
- Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)
Michael Creed: That is the issue at stake.
- Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)
Michael Creed: What we, food producers and consumers, want to know is whether the Minister is on our side.
- Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)
Michael Creed: When the IFA representatives went to Brussels, the Minister was outside the door spinning against Irish farmers' interests.
- Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)
Michael Creed: I remind the Minister of what she said at the time.
- Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)
Michael Creed: The Minister stated there were problems with traceability and tagging but that Brazilian beef was a threat to trade, not a threat to health.
- Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)
Michael Creed: When commencing this debate, I asked a question which the Minister conveniently avoided.
- Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)
Michael Creed: Why is it that when a single outbreak of foot and mouth disease occurred in the United Kingdom, that country's market was closed down within six hours and it was prevented from exporting beef here?
- Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)
Michael Creed: If one has a problem with traceability and tagging and one goes to a factory with an animal, that animal will end up in a skip and not be processed into the human food chain. Why is it that the Minister can state there is a problem with traceability and tagging of beef from Brazilââ
- Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)
Michael Creed: ââwhile standing over a system which gives those who produce that beefââ
- Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)
Michael Creed: ââunfettered access to the market here?
- Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)
Michael Creed: The Minister is desperately trying to get onside, a fact we welcome, but she made a major faux pas and has a great deal of bridge-building to do with Irish farmers and beef producers.
- Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)
Michael Creed: The Minister is offside.
- Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)
Michael Creed: Will the Ceann Comhairle give me some protection from the Minister?
- Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)
Michael Creed: In the interests of consumers and with the willingness of the agriculture sector, we have invested a great deal of money in producing a quality product.
- Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)
Michael Creed: However, the Minister stood outside the door and spun against the interests of beef producers.
- Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)
Michael Creed: The Minister was outside the door spinning against the interests of farmers.
- Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)
Michael Creed: That is a fact and she cannot deny it. She was quoted in the Irish Farmers Journal to that effect and she did not deny it.
- Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)
Michael Creed: The Minister said there was a problem with traceability.