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Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: May I speak to amendment No. 1?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: Will the Minister give an indication as to whether he would consider at a later stage encompassing the amendment that has been ruled out of order? Almost every stakeholder, particularly those representing farmers, has raised concerns that the definition in the Bill is too narrow in that it relates to business-to-business relationships and does not deal with business-to-consumer...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: The Minister mentioned that this is to protect the primary producers. Every primary producer who has appeared before the committee said the range is too narrow. The most recent submission we received from the Irish Farmers' Association, IFA, has reaffirmed that. It is one of the main issues it raised. If this regulator is going to deliver fairness and transparency in the agrifood supply...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: I move amendment No. 3: In page 10, line 9, to delete “regulator” and substitute “rialálaí”. The amendment is to address a concern that has been raised in the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Irish Language, Gaeltacht and the Islands and also to put into practice what the Minister, Deputy Catherine Martin, has stated is Government policy in respect...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: Yes.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: That is fine.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: I move amendment No. 5: In page 11, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following:“(2) The regulator shall collate the costs associated with the production of different foodstuffs in order to determine a cost-of-production, and publish reports on such on an annual basis.”. This is an important amendment. It takes into consideration the very clear views we have received...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: It is interesting that in his previous response the Minister referred to the CCPC. There are numerous instances of public bodies that, in practice, do not do what was intended when they were established by the Legislature. In some instances we must be specific in telling a new body we are establishing what we expect of it. In the long term, we must ensure that farmers are getting a fair...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: I intend to press it because we have been asked to ensure the practice of below-cost selling is prohibitive. We accept there are difficulties with using the legislative route to achieve this. A first step towards it would be ensuring the costs of production are determined. If the Minister were able to provide an alternative formula of words or if he believes the one we have presented is...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: I move amendment No. 6: In page 11, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: “(2) Such analysis and published reports should contain appropriate and relevant reference to and contrast with price and market data available internationally.” This amendment is directly related to No. 5. I am not pressing it but we ask the Minister to review that and on Report...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: I move amendment No. 7: In page 11, line 17, after “to” to insert “the full breadth of”. This amendment involves what the Minister might call a broad point. It is to include the term "the full breadth of" the market chain. It is linked to the amendment that was ruled out of order. Its purpose is to ensure business-to-consumer relationships are included in...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: If the Minister is telling me he will accept the amendment from the word "seek", I will withdraw the amendment and-----

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: The Minister accepts the rest of the proposed subsections (d) and (e).

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: That is agreed.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: I move amendment No. 10: In page 11, between lines 31 and 32, to insert the following: “(6) The regulator shall, where details considered may be of a commercially sensitive nature, or which may not be in the public domain for the purposes of confidentiality throughout the agri-food supply chain, refrain from publishing such information without the consent of the party...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: I move amendment No. 11: In page 12, line 14, after “law” to insert “and anti-competitive actions in the agri-food supply chain”. The amendment seeks to broaden the scope of the Bill and to clarify and to introduce the ability of the regulator to consider competition issues and so-called cartel-like behaviour within certain sectors.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: This goes to the heart of our differences as to what the scope of the regulator could be. The difficulty is that, rather than duplicating any work, this body would be the first to engage proactively with anti-competitive actions in the agrifood sector because the CCPC has not done so to date, to be frank. This committee has heard a substantive amount of evidence in that regard from the farm...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: I will press the amendment for the reasons I have outlined and for the purposes of addressing the deficiencies identified in the implementation of competition rules. In the beef sector, in particular, cartel-like practices have been going on for decades. One of the commitments we were given was that this new body would be in a position to address that. It cannot address it unless the...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: On that note we had a lengthy conversation around the shareholder letter of expectation in June and what that might have meant or how Coillte might have interpreted that with regard to Gresham House. Has the Minister or his colleague, the Minister of State, Senator Hackett, commenced the process of reissuing a new shareholder letter of expectation to make it clear to Coillte that the option...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: How many of the 7,000 ha licensed were planted in January?