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Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (8 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: There is a song called "Any Tipperary Town". If the Minister of State stopped in any street in any town in Tipperary, from Borrisokane to Carrick-on-Suir, and asked about mental health facilities, he would be told by anyone he stopped on the street that there are none there. He said €24 million was spent on mental health services in Tipperary in 2017. I honestly find it hard to know...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Shortage Risk Management Measures: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: I welcome all of the delegates. I will start with Mr. Sean Farrell from Bank of Ireland. I am sorry; Mr. Michael Lauhoff wants to make the opening presentation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Shortage Risk Management Measures: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: I thank Dr. Byrne and invite Mr. Ashmore to make his contribution.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Shortage Risk Management Measures: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: Thank you. I now invite questions from the members.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Shortage Risk Management Measures: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: We will take some questions before we go back to the panel.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Shortage Risk Management Measures: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: On the agricultural cash flow support loan scheme, Mr. Ashmore said, "Demand for this support was so strong that it reached capacity within weeks of its launch – far ahead of our expectations." In the Dáil Chamber I told the Minister that the €145 million being put in place for below-cost capital loans would not be nearly sufficient to meet demand. That shows the pent-up...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Shortage Risk Management Measures: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: I thank the witnesses for their presentations and for answering the questions. We will now suspend briefly to allow the next group of witnesses to take their seats.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Shortage Risk Management Measures: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: I welcome from Teagasc Professor Gerry Boyle, director, and Dr. Siobhán Kavanagh, regional manager; and from the Irish Co-Operative Organisation Society, ICOS, Mr. Martin Keane, president, Mr. T. J. Flanagan, CEO, Mr. Eamonn Farrell, dairy policy executive, and Mr. Ray Doyle, livestock services executive. I draw the attention of witnesses to the fact that by virtue of section 17(2)(l) of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Shortage Risk Management Measures: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: Mr. Keane mentioned an eight-week buffer. I do not know if it will be possible to get an eight-week buffer in place in the summer of 2018 because in many cases silage ground is only stocked now because silage ground has been grazed all spring.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Shortage Risk Management Measures: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: Deputy Deering will be back in a couple of minutes. I want to pass a couple of comments myself because I have to go to the Chamber to talk on a Topical Issue debate. First of all I compliment both Teagasc and ICOS for their co-ordination efforts during the fodder crisis. They were never more wanted. We are here now in the second week of May and it will be a huge battle to get enough...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Shortage Risk Management Measures: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: I am sorry about having to leave. There was mention of getting crops grown by tillage farmers for dairy or livestock farmers. Issues of nitrates and stocking rates will have to be included in such calculations. If a farmer is to source a substantial part of his fodder from land that he has not on his area aid, the stocking rate implications would have to be taken into account. A little...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (8 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 183 of 6 February 2018, the status of plans for the development of a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19709/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (8 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) for additional school accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19953/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (8 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 272. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the position of hospital medical officer at Saint Patrick's Hospital, Cashel, County Tipperary, remains unfilled despite the fact that it has been advertised on three occasions; his views on whether the terms and conditions being offered are not attractive enough to make it financially viable for a general practitioner to take on the weekly...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (8 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 317. To ask the Minister for Health if an application by a person (details supplied) for home help hours can be expedited in view of the difficult circumstances for the person and their family; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19909/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Quality Assurance Schemes (8 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 391. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the proposal that all animals which come from a quality assured farm should receive the some level of bonus as a way to encourage farmers to participate fully in the Bord Bia quality assurance schemes; the cost of introducing such a measure; and the number of farmers participating in all such schemes, in tabular form....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Data (8 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 392. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the planting targets per hectare for categories (details supplied) over the 2014 to 2017 period for the forestry programme 2014-2020; the actual number of hectares planted in each year for the categories; and the number of hectares planted out of each annual target set on a percentage basis, in tabular form. [20049/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Data (8 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 393. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of participants for each listed planting category (details supplied) over the 2014 to 2017 period for the forestry programme 2014-2020 by farmer and non-farmer respectively, in tabular form; and the current grant premium rates in operation for each category. [20050/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (8 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 394. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated additional cost to the Exchequer based on 2017 participation and planting rates to implement a proposal (details supplied) over a full year. [20051/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (8 May 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 395. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated additional cost to the Exchequer based on 2017 participation and planting rates on implementing a proposal (details supplied) over a full year. [20052/18]