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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Business of Joint Committee (21 Sep 2022)

Jackie Cahill: Members participating from outside the Leinster House complex are advised that parliamentary privilege is considered to apply to utterances of members participating online within the confines of Leinster House or in the committee room. There can be no assurances in respect of participation online from outside the parliamentary precincts and members should be mindful of this when they are...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (20 Sep 2022)

Jackie Cahill: 359. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the materials grant to community employment schemes will be increased in view of the current issue of high inflation which is making the cost of materials prohibitively expensive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45759/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (20 Sep 2022)

Jackie Cahill: 379. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the materials grant to community employment schemes will be increased in view of the current issue of high inflation which is making the cost of materials prohibitively expensive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45804/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Sep 2022)

Jackie Cahill: I raise the situation of families with incapacitated children. I have a family in my constituency whom I know well, whose child, due to the exceptional care she has received, has reached the age of seven years and made her first communion earlier this year. This child cannot walk, cannot talk and she has no swallow but due to the exceptional care her mother has given her she has managed to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (15 Sep 2022)

Jackie Cahill: 319. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated tonnage of pig meat products that have been imported into Ireland to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45292/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (15 Sep 2022)

Jackie Cahill: 320. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a breakdown of the total tonnage of pig meat products by category in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45293/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (15 Sep 2022)

Jackie Cahill: 321. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the pig exceptional payment scheme 2 will be paid to farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45294/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (15 Sep 2022)

Jackie Cahill: 322. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if farmers will receive the full funding allocation under the pig exceptional payment scheme 2; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45295/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jackie Cahill: The purpose of today's meeting is to examine the nitrates derogation and nitrates action programme. The committee will hear from a number of expert witnesses and officials from the relevant Departments. Before we do so, I remind members, witnesses and those in the Public Gallery that they must, for the duration of the meeting, switch off their mobile phones completely or switch them to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jackie Cahill: We should go back now to the nitrates and the derogation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jackie Cahill: With respect, that is an argument between organic farmers and commercial farmers. We are here to talk about the derogation and its impact on dairying so we will stay off the organics. We can have another session on that. I call Deputy Fitzmaurice.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jackie Cahill: Call it a "cull" or a "reduction", but if what is proposed is put in place, the number of dairy cows on individual farms will be reduced, though the number of cows countrywide might not because other people might get into dairying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jackie Cahill: I want clarification on a few issues. You have to double the volume of slurry that is needed now to bring down organic nitrogen. Who made that decision and what was the basis for it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jackie Cahill: It was a national decision based on Teagasc advise to change the volume of slurry needed to bring down organic nitrogen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jackie Cahill: Is the change to banding a national or an EU decision?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jackie Cahill: Will the banding only operate in Ireland or across Europe?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jackie Cahill: If you were in parts of Belgium where there is derogation, will the banding apply there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jackie Cahill: When we get the water quality reports back in, who will make the decision whether the report is satisfactory enough to leave the country at 250 kg, or reduce it to 220 kg? Is that a national or an EU decision?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jackie Cahill: If water quality improves by 0.5%, is that enough to held them at 250 kg? If it decreases by 0.5%, does that take it down to 220 kg?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jackie Cahill: We all want to see water quality improving. There is unanimity in the room on this. The Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications will come before the committee shortly. A week ago we had torrential rain. The waste treatment plant in my home town cannot handle the rain water. The sluice gates are opened and it ends up in the River Suir. This happens on a regular basis....