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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Dog Control and Sheep-Worrying: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Aindrias Moynihan: I will follow the same rota we had earlier.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Dog Control and Sheep-Worrying: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Aindrias Moynihan: There have been many questions, so if there are points the witnesses want to forward on, they should please send them to the secretariat for the consideration of the committee. I have one brief question about the database. There are a number of databases operated by different organisations. They are not co-ordinated. Who would the witnesses see holding and managing a database and who...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Dog Control and Sheep-Worrying: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Aindrias Moynihan: There are two questions. Where is the database and who would pay for it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Dog Control and Sheep-Worrying: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Aindrias Moynihan: They will be sending in their responses to the unanswered questions anyway.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (2 Jul 2025)
Aindrias Moynihan: I draw witnesses' attention to the fact that witnesses giving evidence from within the parliamentary precincts are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the evidence they give to a committee. This means a witness has a full defence in any defamation action for anything said at a committee meeting. However, witnesses are expected not to abuse this privilege and may be directed to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (2 Jul 2025)
Aindrias Moynihan: We will give them five minutes to do their presentation on these proposals and we will have an opportunity then to ask about them. We need to be out by 6 p.m., so we are constrained on time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (2 Jul 2025)
Aindrias Moynihan: Could Ms Dunne send those to the committee?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (2 Jul 2025)
Aindrias Moynihan: We need to get Deputy Aird-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (2 Jul 2025)
Aindrias Moynihan: No, Deputy Lawless.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (2 Jul 2025)
Aindrias Moynihan: Deputy Aird should be allowed an opportunity.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (2 Jul 2025)
Aindrias Moynihan: No, Deputy. I call Deputy Aird.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (2 Jul 2025)
Aindrias Moynihan: I have one very quick question on COM (2024) 576. There is consultation being conducted with the Agri-Food Regulator. Has the consultation concluded? Has the Agri-Food Regulator made any recommendations on that COM proposal?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (2 Jul 2025)
Aindrias Moynihan: There has been quite a bit of conversation about the Agri-Food Regulator. While our focus today is on the COM proposal, it is a topic the committee should look further towards and possibly put it on our programme of work.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (2 Jul 2025)
Aindrias Moynihan: Would the officials be able to forward us on those derogations?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (2 Jul 2025)
Aindrias Moynihan: The officials will send us on a list of exemptions or derogations. We are over time and need to wrap up.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (2 Jul 2025)
Aindrias Moynihan: Thank you.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (2 Jul 2025)
Aindrias Moynihan: It was in the briefing document circulated earlier.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (2 Jul 2025)
Aindrias Moynihan: We do not have to close off the conversation today. Once the officials send the details to us, we will be able to discuss this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (2 Jul 2025)
Aindrias Moynihan: We can come back on it. As there are no further matters for discussion, the meeting stands adjourned.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Dog Control and Sheep-Worrying: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Aindrias Moynihan: Our business here is to deal with sheep-worrying.