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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Proposed Amendments to the Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions: Discussion (14 Apr 2021)
Jackie Cahill: I welcome everyone. Apologies have been received from Deputy Kehoe. Before we begin, I remind members that in the context of the current Covid-19 restrictions, only the Chairman and staff are present in the committee room and all members must join remotely from elsewhere in the parliamentary precincts. The secretariat can issue invitations to join the meeting on Microsoft Teams. Members...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Proposed Amendments to the Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions: Discussion (14 Apr 2021)
Jackie Cahill: We have lost Mr. Buckley.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Proposed Amendments to the Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions: Discussion (14 Apr 2021)
Jackie Cahill: Is Mr. Buckley back?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Proposed Amendments to the Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions: Discussion (14 Apr 2021)
Jackie Cahill: I thank Mr. McCormack. A number of Deputies and Senators wish to contribute. Unfortunately, Covid-19 has imposed restrictions on us timewise. Many issues have been raised and I believe we will end up adjourning this discussion to a date in the near future. I will take questions from a number of Senators and Deputies and then revert to the organisations for their responses. I call Senator...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Proposed Amendments to the Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions: Discussion (14 Apr 2021)
Jackie Cahill: Does Mr. McCormack wish to come in?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Proposed Amendments to the Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions: Discussion (14 Apr 2021)
Jackie Cahill: Go ahead, Mr. Enright.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Proposed Amendments to the Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions: Discussion (14 Apr 2021)
Jackie Cahill: Does Mr. Punch of the ICSA want to come in? Perhaps Mr. Kelleher can comment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Proposed Amendments to the Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions: Discussion (14 Apr 2021)
Jackie Cahill: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Proposed Amendments to the Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions: Discussion (14 Apr 2021)
Jackie Cahill: Does anyone from the INHFA wish to comment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Proposed Amendments to the Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions: Discussion (14 Apr 2021)
Jackie Cahill: I will go back to members. I call Deputy Fitzmaurice.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Proposed Amendments to the Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions: Discussion (14 Apr 2021)
Jackie Cahill: I will invite a number of Deputies to speak and then we will revert to the witnesses for their responses. Deputy Martin Browne is next.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Proposed Amendments to the Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions: Discussion (14 Apr 2021)
Jackie Cahill: I will go back to the representatives of the farming organisations for the last time. I ask the representatives to be as brief as possible because we are eating into the time allocated for discussion with representatives of the Department of Agriculture and the Marine. I will go to Mr. Cullinan first.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Proposed Amendments to the Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions: Discussion (14 Apr 2021)
Jackie Cahill: I noted that Mr. Punch joined the meeting a few minutes ago. We tried to go to him previously. Does Mr. Punch wish to contribute?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Proposed Amendments to the Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions: Discussion (14 Apr 2021)
Jackie Cahill: We cannot seem to get Mr. Punch so Mr. Kelleher can contribute.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Proposed Amendments to the Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions: Discussion (14 Apr 2021)
Jackie Cahill: I would like to hear from representatives of the INHFA before we finish this session.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Proposed Amendments to the Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions: Discussion (14 Apr 2021)
Jackie Cahill: Thank you. I have to conclude this session. I thank all the organisations. Obviously, this is a very important issue. As Chairman of the committee, I will convey to the Minister the sentiments that were strongly expressed today. This is an issue we will focus on again in the near future. We will now have a session with officials from the Department and we will raise with them the issues...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Proposed Amendments to the Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions: Discussion (14 Apr 2021)
Jackie Cahill: We resume in public session. I welcome the following officials from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Mr. Paul Savage, assistant secretary; Ms Sharon Murphy, principal officer, EU division; and Mr. Tom Keating, senior inspector, integrated controls. I apologise for being a little late in coming to this session, but we had a session earlier with the farming organisations....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Proposed Amendments to the Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions: Discussion (14 Apr 2021)
Jackie Cahill: I will let the officials take note of that. I will let in one more member and then we will get back to them. I call Deputy Browne.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Proposed Amendments to the Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions: Discussion (14 Apr 2021)
Jackie Cahill: Yes. Mr. Savage might reply to Deputy Carthy in writing to those.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Proposed Amendments to the Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions: Discussion (14 Apr 2021)
Jackie Cahill: Mr. Savage might reply in writing to Deputy Carthy on those matters.