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Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I am sorry, Minister. There is a vote in the Dáil..

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: If there are no more questions, that concludes the select committee's consideration of the Supplementary Estimate for Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine. In accordance with Standing Orders, a message to this effect will be sent to clerk of the Dáil. On behalf of the select committee, I thank the Minister and his officials for assisting the committee with its consideration of...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Message to Dáil (5 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine has considered the following Supplementary Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2024: Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: The Deputy is okay. I call Deputy Fitzmaurice.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I remind the Deputy that is not really the remit for today.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: You have had an opportunity to raise it, and I will leave it with the Minister to respond if he wants.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: Members now have the option of being physically present in the committee room or may join the meeting via MS Teams from their Leinster House offices. Members may not participate in the meeting from outside the parliamentary precincts. It is important to note that in order to participate in a division in committee, members must be physically present in the committee room. If joining on...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Joe Flaherty: We will now take questions from the members. My nearest neighbour, Deputy Kenny, is first in.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Public Sector Pensions (23 Oct 2024)

Joe Flaherty: 40. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his response to issues (details supplied) for retired workers in An Post; the estimated full-year cost of increasing An Post pensions in 2025 by an amount equivalent to the increase in the State contributory pension next year; the average annual increase in An Post pensions since 2013; and if he will make a statement...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I have to raise the case of a Longford family in the midst of the deepest, darkest crisis at the moment. Over the last number of months their 16-year-old son Jacob has subjected his parents to unrelenting violence. He has wrecked the family home, wrecked the family car and in recent weeks his three siblings have been dispatched to relatives and friends for their own personal safety. I...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (22 Oct 2024)

Joe Flaherty: 276. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there is any provision for an ex section 38 staff member to bring their grade and pension with them when taking up a post in a Government department (details supplied). [43225/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Joe Flaherty: Our retained firefighters came off the picket lines recently in anticipation of a decent financial resolution for their claim. They set great faith in our commitments to them, but it is fair to say that they are less than enthused by discussions at the WRC. As it stands, the offer to them is €750. That is a derisory amount; no more than €14 a week. I have met several...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (10 Oct 2024)

Joe Flaherty: 19. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the situation between Iran and Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40571/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (10 Oct 2024)

Joe Flaherty: 55. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his assessment of the situation in Lebanon; the discussions he has had with his European Union counterparts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40572/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (8 Oct 2024)

Joe Flaherty: 90. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider an amnesty for motorists who have expired paper-based licences (details supplied) and allow them to have a learner permit without the theory test requirement. [40090/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I thank all the groups for coming in to us. Probably a year on, it is disappointing that we have not seen any change in the situation. If anything, it has got progressively worse and certainly the feedback we are getting with regard to passports is that the situation has deteriorated significantly. Anecdotally, I am being told by staff in Horse Sport Ireland and also people trying to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Joe Flaherty: We have an irony here in that the Department of agriculture has given €600,000 in Brexit funding to Horse Sport Ireland to administer and process passports and, at the same time, it is writing out to sales venues and telling them they cannot process the sale of foals unless they have a passport. The market is breaking down. We already see a fallback in the sales and value of young...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Joe Flaherty: Mr. Corrigan said he was disappointed with the Olympics, as the whole country was. We were expecting some kind of medal, of whatever colour. Across the world, we were winning at every show in the lead-up to the Olympics. I think we have four of the top 20 rider-and-horse combinations in the world. Does Mr. Corrigan have any idea why there was a breakdown at the Olympics?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Joe Flaherty: Mr. Corrigan said specifically with regard to funding in November 2015 that he wanted to challenge a contribution on that. What was that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Joe Flaherty: Many of Mr. Draper's members in the Irish draught horse community will be very aware of the passport situation. Is Mr. Draper worried about his stud book in the current climate and the issues with the passports?