Results 101-120 of 591 for speaker:Peter Cleere
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Peter Cleere: I am really concerned about the economic impact in particular on rural Ireland. How many potential job losses are we looking at if we do not get a proper resolution? Obviously, the merchants are frustrated because they have been at it a long time but they are not getting a hop out of the Department by all accounts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Peter Cleere: I have serious worries about the unintended consequences of this particular statutory instrument and the fact that we could potentially lose hundreds, if not thousands of jobs in rural Ireland, in towns and villages like those I and other members here represent. That is something that we absolutely do not want to see happening. The service that the merchants provide to rural Ireland must be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Peter Cleere: I fully appreciate our guests coming in and giving their time. I hope the Department will engage in a more positive fashion going forward.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Peter Cleere: I thank the officials for attending this afternoon. I am very conscious that at the heart of everything here – involving the Department, merchants and veterinary side – is the farmer at home. I am thinking of the farmer at home, and that is where my questions are coming from. In all of this, was any thought at all given to the potential significant inconvenience for your...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Peter Cleere: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Peter Cleere: What is the Department's view on the notable shift in sales patterns among merchants due to this statutory instrument regulation and what is being implemented?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Peter Cleere: In previous exchanges, there was the possibility that hundreds or thousands of jobs in rural Ireland could be lost. What is the Department's view on that possibility?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Peter Cleere: Given that we do not know what will happen, how would the Department assess the potential financial burden of compliance with the veterinary medicine products regulations on small-scale farmers and merchants? What supports will be made available to mitigate these costs for all the different stakeholders?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Peter Cleere: Is there any support for merchants or the veterinary side of things?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Peter Cleere: I am conscious of time so I will move along. The NBPS is the new electronic prescription system developed by the Department. How much did it cost?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Peter Cleere: Is it fit for purpose? I note that it was said earlier that 54% are engaged. What is the story with the other 50%?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Peter Cleere: Another 30% are aware it is there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Peter Cleere: Thank you.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Peter Cleere: Are half of them using it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Peter Cleere: Is the €11 million good value for money? The Department has spent €65 million in the past two years on IT systems that have not been successful in terms of efficiency and cutting out the red tape, as a Senator said earlier.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Peter Cleere: I am conscious of the time so will be as brief as I can. To get into the specifics, the original budget was €2.97 million with a delivery date of June 2021. Is that correct? It was revised to €3.5 million with a delivery date of quarter 2 of 2022. The costs then rose to an outrageous €6.5 million by the time the Arts Council pulled the plug in June 2024. All the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Peter Cleere: I will come back to Ms Kennelly on the legal process in a second but I note remarks of the Secretary General, who stated: The Arts Council failed to seek or attain sanction for increases in the budget and resources it was applying to the project in 2021, 2022 and 2023 ... The Department failed to require the Arts Council to meet its obligations under the sanction which was provided and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Peter Cleere: Ms Kennelly stated, "We have commenced legal proceedings against two contractors and are in the pre-action stage in relation to two others", and the Arts Council is vigorously pursuing its cases to reduce the loss to the taxpayer. What are the names of the contractors from which the Arts Council is pursuing legal redress?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Peter Cleere: I am sure Ms Kennelly can do so. In the case of the national children's hospital we all know the contractor is BAM.