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Order of Business (18 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: On promised legislation, the Taoiseach may have inadvertently misled the House yesterday and perhaps the Tánaiste might wish to correct the record. I raised the issue of country of origin labelling and the Taoiseach said no such legislation was promised yet it is mentioned in the programme for Government and in a press release issued by the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food this...

Order of Business (18 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: I take it no legislation is promised in this area.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: It is good to know that.

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (18 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: Question 20: To ask the Minister for Transport the progress to date on the discussions his Department is having with relevant bodies in relation to the issue of road safety and the new role being adopted by the Health and Safety Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24407/07]

Written Answers — Organic Farming: Organic Farming (18 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: Question 182: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if her Department has established a single approved standard for organic produce; and if not, the action she will take to meet the target of 5% of acreage to organic farming by 2012. [24558/07]

Written Answers — Food Exports: Food Exports (18 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: Question 183: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when she proposes to establish the high level strategic interdepartmental group to exploit new overseas markets for Irish food and drink products; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24559/07]

Written Answers — World Trade Organisation: World Trade Organisation (18 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: Question 184: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the initiatives she has taken to date in 2007 to ensure that non-trade issues will form an integral part of the next round of World Trade Organisation talks. [24560/07]

Written Answers — Food Safety: Food Safety (18 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: Question 185: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food her proposals to protect consumers here from Brazilian beef which clearly does not meet the same animal health and traceability standards as those required of Irish and EU farmers. [24561/07]

Written Answers — Organic Farming: Organic Farming (18 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: Question 186: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the level of farm land currently used for organic purposes here; the way this category of land use is determined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24562/07]

Written Answers — Genetically Modified Organisms: Genetically Modified Organisms (18 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: Question 187: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will clarify the situation regarding the growth of genetically modified foods in Northern Ireland; the negotiations that have taken place with her Northern Ireland counterparts on these matters; her definition of a GM free zone; and the action she will take to achieve same. [24563/07]

Written Answers — Sheep Industry: Sheep Industry (18 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: Question 188: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made to date in implementing the recommendation of the sheep industry strategy group; the money that has been transferred to sheep producers to date arising from the implementation of this strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24564/07]

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (18 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: Question 204: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department will provide funding for the provision of flashing amber lights on the road immediately outside all schools as is currently provided for in CLÁR areas by the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs. [24565/07]

Agrifood Industry: Motion (23 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: I move: That Dáil Éireann, noting: the inadequate consumer information offered by the current Irish labelling regime and the Government failure to legislate appropriately; the need to end the labelling abuse which is allowed by the 'substantial transformation' loophole; the legitimate consumer and industry concerns about the continued importation of meat from countries where production...

Agrifood Industry: Motion (23 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: What we are talking about here is the combined and shared objective of primary food producers and consumers to have food they produce and purchase properly labelled with reliable information regarding safety, origin and nutritional value and other critical information that should rightly be attached to it. In economic terms, we are talking about a beef industry worth in excess of €1.5...

Agrifood Industry: Motion (23 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: Why, within hours of an outbreak of foot and mouth disease involving a single animal on one farm in the UK, did the Minister and her EU colleagues move immediately to ban UK exports of beef to other member states when no such action is deemed necessary in respect of Brazil, where the disease is epidemic? If the UK decided in the immediate future to vaccinate its national herd against foot...

Agrifood Industry: Motion (23 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: In all of this, the Department has given hostages to fortune in respect of the legitimacy of GM feeds here and must clarify its position on this issue as a matter of urgency. Clean and green and GM feed are not, to my mind, mutually exclusive terms. GM feed has been, and continues to be, a critical component of the food chain here for over a decade. To pretend anything else is dishonest.

Agrifood Industry: Motion (23 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: I heard the Minister of State's comments at the Anuga fair in Germany where he said that the answer to the Brazilian threat lay in organic production. We favour organic production but if the Minister of State thinks a multi-billion euro industry can turn itself around overnight and not have a GM component in its feed regime, he will put hundreds of thousands of Irish farming families and...

Agrifood Industry: Motion (23 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: This is no laughing matter.

Agrifood Industry: Motion (23 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: That the animal has died in debt.

Agrifood Industry: Motion (23 Oct 2007)

Michael Creed: She should talk to her MEPs.