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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: I ask the president to respond to those questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: The State engages with the IFA and-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: I am thinking about a particular farmer who has specific supply problems with Britain. Have officials from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine met such farmers to provide marketing support tools and point out the markets elsewhere they need to go to? While I understand there have been high-level meetings and some budgets have been located in good areas, what kind of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: The use of two types of diesel creates a space in which criminals can operate. This causes difficulties and generates significant policing costs. An argument has been made for having one type of diesel and allowing farmers to apply for rebates, perhaps on a bimonthly basis. Under the proposed scheme, farmers would continue to pay the same costs for diesel as they did for diesel for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: I am going allow a very short contribution by Deputy Danny Healy-Rae.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: Can we have a brief response to that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: I thank all the witnesses for coming in today and for the detailed presentations that they have given. The information that we have received will become part of this committee's analysis and report on this issue and we will be sure that the witnesses get a copy of the report when it is completed. There is no doubt that this committee will be inviting the witnesses in again in the coming...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: Ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil leis an bhfinné.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (25 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: Táimid anois i seisiún poiblí. We were to have the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Heather Humphreys, before the committee today but unfortunately she is unable to attend given the short notice. We offered to facilitate the Minister in addressing the issues we wanted to discuss with her by postponing the meeting to a day suitable to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (25 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister was given ten days notice of the meeting time by the committee. Ten days is a considerable amount of time. The committee only found out last Friday that the Minister would not be attending. It is a major disappointment when a committee extends an invitation to a Minister and he or she does not attend. It is the job of the committee to hold a particular Minister to account....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (25 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: Shall we agree to send a letter first?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (25 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: I propose that we, as a committee, send the Minister a letter expressing our disappointment about the fact that neither she nor the Aire Stáit, Deputy Kyne, attended this meeting and asking her to select a date in the next fortnight on which both she and the Minister of State can make themselves available to the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (25 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: Perhaps three weeks should be allowed. Is that agreed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (25 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: If we stretch it out too far, we get into the situation where the issue is not focused on. In such circumstances, I would like to give it a timescale of approximately three weeks if that is acceptable.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (25 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: We have already made a decision to invite her and an agreed invitation was sent. I always hate to open up what has already been agreed by a committee-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (25 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: That is okay. It will be agreed then that we will set out our disappointment and ask her to attend the committee at a time agreeable to her within the next three weeks. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (25 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: This is one of those issues where it was proposed by members and agreed on the particular day that it would be sent out. Nobody, I think-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (25 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: I understand that it was and I do not believe anyone spoke against it. I am not going to be fixated on it because the real politics, discussion and issue will be dealt with when the Minister attends and we have the discussion. In future, if a proposal of that sort arises, we can take Deputy Heydon's view into consideration and try to frame titles in such a manner as to make them less - as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (25 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: Is Deputy Heydon making a proposal on the matter?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (25 Oct 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: That is grand and agreed. This concludes our debate. We hope to meet the Minister shortly. Feicfidh mé sibh go léir amárach.