Results 1-13 of 13 for competitive speaker:Joe Flaherty

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Joe Flaherty: That would be just for the European championships. Let us say – we cannot say home international – they are going to a UK and Ireland competition. Would they get a contribution towards that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Joe Flaherty: With regard to the competition events and ECVOA, we have made a suggestion at a meeting of this committee. ECVOA has suggested it should have a memorandum of association with HRI. I understand it has one prepared. Are HSI representatives due to meet ECVOA representatives shortly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Joe Flaherty: That is very positive. If the competition venues are keen to grow, we will need a vibrant competition scene. Therefore, it is important to have a cohesive and harmonious relationship between HSI and ECVOA. An issue the ECVOA representatives raised was funding. ECVOA would need to be joined at the hip with HSI in trying to seek Government funding. I encourage the representatives present...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Joe Flaherty: For the benefit of my colleagues, Mr. Fagan runs what is probably one of the most successful equestrian centres and competition venues in the country. I am fortunate to live a little down the road from it. If I go out my back door, I also have Cavan Equestrian Centre, so I have two of the best in the country there. Anybody who visits those venues or any of the other competition venues over...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland (21 Jun 2023)

Joe Flaherty: ...McLoughlin. He and his partner are young, progressive breeders, the types of people we should have. Two years ago, they got to the final in the loose jumping in the RDS. It is a three-year old competition. This is something to take very seriously. Mr. McLoughlin contacted the Department in 2020 and advised it that, at that time, 19 horses were registered in his name. When he had gone...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland (21 Jun 2023)

Joe Flaherty: We will certainly share that with HSI. The Equestrian Competition Venues Owners Alliance, ECVOA, is a representative group of 18 of the biggest equestrian competition venues in Ireland; probably the bedrock of the industry. Competition needs venues and all of these people have invested heavily. In some cases, they have received LEADER funding and State funding. It is very important that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland (21 Jun 2023)

Joe Flaherty: Horse Sport Ireland is on its road show at present. It is commendable. I referenced some of the queries from the Equestrian Competition Venues Owners Alliance, ECVOA, earlier. Obviously, it is important that HSI engages with all the major stakeholders, and particularly one as big as that. It is engaging with the public in competitions. It is a critical area, in particular, for bringing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Industry Strategy: Engagement with Horse Sport Ireland (21 Jun 2023)

Joe Flaherty: There is an overlap, but the industry depends on competition and we need competition venues. It would be concerning that it is in excess of three years since HSI has met that body.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (14 Jun 2023)

Joe Flaherty: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the Government's response to Ireland's Competitiveness Challenge 2022. [28109/23]

Irish Sheep Sector: Statements (30 Mar 2023)

Joe Flaherty: ...to, on the back of the Ramadan market. We are, though, still well down on the prices from this time last year and we are almost certainly unlikely to obtain those prices again any time soon. Increasing competition is also posing a challenge, with a recent recovery in the UK sheep meat sector, as well as more products entering Europe from New Zealand and other southern hemisphere...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban and Rural Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: ...relating to the URDF. I am interested in changes to the scoring criteria for that scheme where it will be very much led by the local Town Centre First policy as opposed to the traditional competitive call. How confident are the witnesses that this will bring to the top the quality of projects we want and need to see? Are they reassured that this will happen? In respect of the Town...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (22 Feb 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 38. To ask the Minister for Finance if we will report on his engagement with insurance underwriters and brokers to promote more competition. [9311/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Practice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2021)

Joe Flaherty: ...was no vet in a practice it comes back to the issue of ownership and the policing of same. More specifically, going back to the Veterinary Practice Act 2005, which according to the report of the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission would appear to prohibit vets from incorporating. I am conscious that Ms Muldoon said that the VCI does not have the details on the incorporation of...