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Farming and Agri-Food Sector: Statements (25 Nov 2009)

Michael Creed: I wish to share my time with Deputy Crawford.

Farming and Agri-Food Sector: Statements (25 Nov 2009)

Michael Creed: We are two weeks from the budget and I want the Minister to leave the Chamber tonight with one message ringing in his ears, namely, that there is no scope whatever for further savings in farm gate schemes. If he needs proof of that, he should read the Teagasc farm income survey of 2008 which shows that farm incomes in 2008 fell by an average of 13%. Today's figures show that farm incomes in...

Farming and Agri-Food Sector: Statements (25 Nov 2009)

Michael Creed: The Minister of State should know then that this system will not work. The EID system the Department proposes to introduce will collapse both systems and we will be left with no sheep tagging system. I appeal to the Minister at this late hour to retreat from the decision he made on REPS 4. It is an outstandingly successful scheme. It delivers valuable results in terms of environmental...

Farming and Agri-Food Sector: Statements (25 Nov 2009)

Michael Creed: We need to deal with this crisis as it emerges and to target resources. The €2 million fund is entirely inadequate and I ask the Minister to reconsider it. I was interested in the Minister's observation on the banks and to learn of his meeting with them this evening. Farmers are crying out for working capital but they have not got it. They need it now for fodder relief and producers of...

Farming and Agri-Food Sector: Statements (25 Nov 2009)

Michael Creed: The Minister has done nothing during the past two years.

Farming and Agri-Food Sector: Statements (25 Nov 2009)

Michael Creed: The Minister has been a disgrace.

Order of Business (26 Nov 2009)

Michael Creed: The Government has been sold a pup.

Order of Business (26 Nov 2009)

Michael Creed: The Government was sold a pup.

Order of Business (26 Nov 2009)

Michael Creed: Businesses will be closed by then.

Order of Business (26 Nov 2009)

Michael Creed: They have not got a clue.

Order of Business (26 Nov 2009)

Michael Creed: He is in an ivory town rather than a cave.

Food (Fair Trade and Information) Bill 2009: First Stage (26 Nov 2009)

Michael Creed: I move That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide, in the interests of the common good, for the prohibition of activities which prevent, restrict or distort fair trade in grocery goods in the State, and to provide for information on the grocery trade in Ireland to be gathered and published, and to provide for related matters.

Food (Fair Trade and Information) Bill 2009: First Stage (26 Nov 2009)

Michael Creed: I move "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time." Since I am on my feet I extend as a courtesy to the Tánaiste the option that her Department may borrow the Bill at any stage and introduce it to the House to tackle the predatory powers of the supermarkets and to deliver a fairer price to private producers.

Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Nov 2009)

Michael Creed: They are long in Cork also.

Sheep Industry. (26 Nov 2009)

Michael Creed: Question 1: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on the financial and practical effects that the introduction of electronic tagging of sheep will have on the sheep sector here; if he has sought a derogation at European level regarding the introduction of electronic tagging in view of the decline in the sheep sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Sheep Industry. (26 Nov 2009)

Michael Creed: I am not sure I would like to thank the Minister of State for his reply but we are getting nearer to having all the facts on the table. I appreciate the history lesson and, in some respects, I have sympathy for him because his two predecessors, who should have killed this proposal in its infancy, kicked it to touch and the chickens are coming home to roost on his watch. Does he accept field...

Sheep Industry. (26 Nov 2009)

Michael Creed: A 12-month derogation will be meaningless because a significant element of the industry is involved in hogget production. When one goes to the mart to buy store lambs, one may buy from ten different flocks. One will then have to superimpose the new tagging system on the current system. Twelve digit numbers will have to be transcribed individually in respect of each tagging. It will not...

Sheep Industry. (26 Nov 2009)

Michael Creed: With no success.

Sheep Industry. (26 Nov 2009)

Michael Creed: Will the Minister of State seek a derogation?

Sheep Industry. (26 Nov 2009)

Michael Creed: What is wrong with the existing system?