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Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Reference was made to the Citizens' Assembly and the recommendations that came up there. I am a farmer from rural Ireland and I am worried about the recommendations around carbon tax or fines. Ireland's largest indigenous business and some 90% of exports are agricultural. I am worried about how the recommendations can be married with our produce such as cattle, beef, bacon, lamb, other...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Bobby Aylward: As the Secretary General of the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment, what is Mr. Griffin's personal opinion?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Bobby Aylward: How am I doing for time?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Inland fisheries come under the remit of Mr. Griffin's Department also. I have experienced that. We have three good rivers where I come from - the Suir, the Barrow and the Nore - but they are all closed to salmon fishing at the moment because of scientific evidence that there are not enough fish to sustain such activity. We have to get it up to a certain standard before we can go back...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Bobby Aylward: This would be the second one. I hope the possibility of another buy-out scheme can be examined.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Bobby Aylward: It would be for a different group of people. They are still there. They have done no fishing for three, four or five years because scientific evidence will not allow them out on the rivers. I am not just talking about my local area; I am talking about the whole country.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I could have mentioned the River Moy in County Mayo and many others.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Bobby Aylward: No.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I know that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I have raised it today so that it can be taken into consideration.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Bobby Aylward: That is right.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I have raised it with the Minister. I know he is doing some research on it. He is looking at the overall picture with regard to salmon, eels and the whole lot.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Bobby Aylward: He is looking at a buy-out scheme in general. He is putting costings on it. As Secretary General, would Mr. Griffin be in favour of what I am proposing? Would he support it?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Bobby Aylward: If one does not look for these things, one does not get them.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Bobby Aylward: The three sisters.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Bobby Aylward: For the information of the committee, following the receipt of scientific evidence two or three years ago the Nore and the Barrow were opened after being closed for seven or eight years. It was permitted to catch a couple of hundred fish a year for two years. When the fish levels reduced again, the rivers were closed once more. It all depends on the scientific evidence.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (15 Nov 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 47. To ask the Minister for Health if additional resources will be allocated to the existing cardiac catheterisation laboratory at University Hospital Waterford in order to increase the current capacity to accommodate the estimated 450 additional procedures that will be referred there through additional diagnostic angiograms set to be provided by mobile catheterisation lab; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Rare Diseases (15 Nov 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 171. To ask the Minister for Health the evidence the Health Service Executive drugs group considers in the assessment of rare and ultra rare diseases for drugs for potential reimbursement; the measures in place to ensure the participation of impartial expert clinicians in this assessment process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48373/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (15 Nov 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 169. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE drugs committee group met on 14 September 2017 to discuss a drug (details supplied); if a decision was made to reimburse the drug; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48371/17]