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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: The framework.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: I very much welcome the publication of the endometriosis clinical guidelines that were published recently. This is a very positive step forward for the thousands of women who suffer with this condition. One in ten women in Ireland is believed to suffer from it. Many of them suffer in silence. The guidelines specifically state that the clinical guidelines should be used in conjunction with...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: What incentives can be provided to GPs to engage with this process?

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: I thank the Minister and his officials. To follow on from the question about the forgotten farmers, will the survey that was conducted last month be published? Will the forgotten farmers cohort be paid in 2025? What is the expected payout date?

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: Did the survey quantify how many farmers are in the category?

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: Okay, so there are more beyond the survey. Does the Minister expect payments to-----

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: Will payments commence this year?

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: How many put themselves forward for the survey?

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: Regarding Storm Éowyn and the difficulties that farmers faced due to shed damage, particularly in Mayo, Roscommon and right across the western seaboard, has the Minister any provision in TAMS, which will be opened in the autumn, or indeed in next year's budget, to provide supports for those farmers?

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: What the Minister said at the end is what I am referring to, about sheds and structural damage, not generators. What can we say to farmers today in that regard? When will that open? What are the plans?

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: I appreciate the Minister's work in that regard. That is tranche 7. When does he expect that to open?

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: In relation to programme D3 - fisheries-----

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: My apologies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: I thank the witnesses for coming in. I will focus on the wildlife programme. How many TB vaccinations took place nationally in each of the past five years? Can the witnesses provide a breakdown by area? What analysis has been done on the outbreak of TB in herds? What work has been done in the wildlife programme, for example?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: So, of 14,000 badgers, 7,000 are vaccinated and 7,000 culled. What percentage of the 7,000 vaccinated are recaptured for assessment of the efficacy of that vaccine?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: If there is no assessment whatsoever of how effective it is, that seems to me-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: I only have a short time. I know there is serious focus in the Department on the proposals for the farmer, so I want to focus my time on the wildlife programme. I think it is a serious flaw that there is no attempt by the Department to recapture the badgers and assess the efficacy and effectiveness of the vaccine. Will the Department consider at least a pilot or trial? We are spending...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: But the point I make is that we are not retesting them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Paul Lawless: My next question is for the TB stakeholder forum. One of the strengths of the Australian model and the New Zealand model was the collaborative approach in working with farmers, farm organisations and the department. Is the forum happy with the level of collaboration and engagement it has had. If not, what key objectives would the forum like to get across today with regard to the proposals...