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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme: Discussion with Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (2 Jul 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Can the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation give them a star rating without ever having had them genotyped before?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme: Discussion with Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (2 Jul 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Most farmers whom I deal with breed their own calves. When Dr. Cromie referred to a heifer coming into the herd as a replacement, is he talking about replacing them within the herd or outside the herd?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme: Discussion with Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (2 Jul 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Will Mr. Coughlan confirm that if one does not use the pack, there will be no charge?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme: Discussion with Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (2 Jul 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Is there a political issue here in respect of what farmers were told two years ago? We will park that question as it is political. In terms of improving the whole suckler cow herd, if we get about 50% of the animals into the scheme, it will lift all of the animals right across the country. Is that right, based on what Mr. Coughlan said about stock bulls, artificial insemination, AI, and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme: Discussion with Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (2 Jul 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: From a genomics point of view, therefore, the rising tide will lift all boats. The ICBF has a big enough representative sample in half the animals to affect all the animals.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: We face a particular problem here. When I was a Minister the Opposition often came up with valid points or, as the debate developed, I as Minister would think something was possibly not well put and that it could be improved. I would reflect after Committee Stage-----
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: This is relevant.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I am coming to the amendment. What I then did was I went off and reflected-----
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: ----and came back on Report Stage with amendments. I want to apologise for not being here for the beginning of the debate, but I was attending a Whips' meeting, where I tried to put forward an idea that would lead to a better Bill and better enacted legislation. It was quite simple. We would take Committee Stage today-----
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I am coming to them.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The Chairman is only delaying me.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I am not repeating myself.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: We could then come in next week or the week after and do a standard report at which stage the Minister of State would have listened to the debate, which is the idea behind the procedures in this House, and could suggest amendments. Yesterday evening I asked the Minister of State whether I am correct in understanding that what this amendment seeks to do is give the Government the power to...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The Government ordered the business of the Dáil; not us.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Since a transfer of money to the Exchequer from the local government fund is only provided for this year, will there be a transfer next year and, if there is, will it require specific legislation to facilitate it? We have to know what is going on with the money because all the legislation provides for is a one-year transfer of money from the local government fund to the Exchequer, a...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: We just want to get to the bottom of this.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Until we get to the bottom of this and until the Minister of State gives us clear answers, we will just have to repeat and repeat. As the Minister of State knows, I am not the spokesperson on this subject and, therefore, I am not up to date with the labyrinthine financial arrangements as well as I would be if I were. Do I understand correctly that €540 million is being taken out of...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: However, it does make this a little more complex and more opaque. Can the Minister of State explain the financial transactions that take place in a simple way that we can all understand? It is always said that we should follow the money trail. Will the Minister of State explain to us the money trail? My colleagues have been lamenting, as I did yesterday, the fact that on Second Stage...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: This is the problem about doing this on Report Stage. If it happened on Committee Stage, we could keep coming over and back and drill down to what is happening. The Minister of State confirmed what I thought was happening. The Government introduced the local property tax, which does not provide for any extra service. It is just matched by a reduction in Exchequer funding to local...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Éamon Ó Cuív: This is a bit like Lanigan's Ball. Phelan steps in and steps out, Kelly steps in and steps out, Coffey steps in and steps out. I never saw a Bill that involved so many Ministers.