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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: As with dry cow antibiotics, you can use a vet that has knowledge of your herd but it does not have to be the vet that carries out the herd test. That is fine. From an animal welfare perspective, will it be possible for herd owners to have some antibiotics on hand at particular times of the year? For example, in the spring it will not be practical for a vet to be in every yard at the same...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: This is fine. When it comes to mastitis, the quicker you can get a treatment into an animal, the chance of recovery is far better. From an animal welfare point of view, time is of the essence. If you are milking cows and you see a cow with mastitis, time is of the essence. The quicker you can get a tube into the cow the better the chance of recovery. Where you are rearing calves you will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: Now, now. The Deputy is straying from the topic.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: If a farmer has a cross-compliance inspection and has drugs for which he cannot account with respect to their source and a prescription, he would be subject to a severe penalty.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: The Department is not proposing any change. That is provided for already.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: If a farmer gets a 12-month prescription and has to buy products at different times during the year, how will that work given he will have only one prescription?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: Who will keep a record of that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: I image there is a guesstimate of the year's supply.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: Senator Paul Daly wants to know about his proposal of looking for an extension. What is Dr. Corkery's view of that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: Senator Paul Daly has made a proposal that we write to the Minister and look for an immediate response from him and Deputy Carthy seconded the proposal before he left. As there were no objections I take it that is agreed? Agreed. On behalf of the committee I thank the officials from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine for briefing us. This regulation will have a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: A farmer will only dose calves five or six times a year. The prescription will cater for that.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries (5 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 116. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 66 of 25 May 2021, the reason the works on the wall on the bridge in Ballylooby, Cahir, County Tipperary were not carried out in September 2021 as committed to by the OPW. [48108/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (5 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to issues relating to the bus route of a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47773/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (5 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 640. To ask the Minister for Health the financial assessment breakdown in the case of a person (details supplied) availing of the fair deal scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47842/21]

Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)

Jackie Cahill: The climate Bill is hugely important legislation, but for it to be successful we need public buy-in. Like a previous speaker, I am from a rural constituency. At the moment, my constituents are resentful of the blame they are getting regarding climate change and anxious about what will be imposed on them and the economic damage it can do. If anything has shaken public confidence in our...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Sep 2021)

Jackie Cahill: I wish to raise an issue I have raised in the House on numerous occasions, which is the roll-out of rural broadband. One thing Covid did was show how important that infrastructure is for rural areas. For businesses to prosper and for people to be able to work from home, that roll-out is essential. I had a businessman on to me last week and it typifies what is happening on the ground. John...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (30 Sep 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 398. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 566 of 6 July 2021, if his Department will continue to pay the annual forest premium to forest owners affected by frost damage regardless of having passed the second instalment stage by year six or not; if his Department release the second instalment grants in circumstances in which frost...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (30 Sep 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 399. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 567 of 6 July 2021, the reason the areas of natural constraint payment cannot be paid to farmers that plant land in designated areas of natural constraint; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47441/21]

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (29 Sep 2021)

Jackie Cahill: It needs to be recognised that Housing for All is one of the most comprehensive and ambitious homebuilding plans in the history of the State. I am delighted to be a Government Deputy pushing this huge investment. It is one of the key reasons Fianna Fáil entered Government. I want to talk about Irish Water and the infrastructure it needs to invest in. We have to have proper waste...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Sep 2021)

Jackie Cahill: With regard to work permits, there is a severe shortage of labour in virtually all sectors across the country. The same is happening in Northern Ireland. It came to a head in recent weeks when a meat processing plant in Northern Ireland, which takes a lot of pigs from the South, was forced to close because of a shortage of labour. This had a huge impact on pig prices in the South. There...