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Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: But not next year. Not when they need it.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: For years, the struggles faced by family carers have been raised here in the Dáil and in communities across Ireland. Family Carers Ireland has told us clearly that carers' situation needs to be treated like a house on fire. Budget 2026 was the Government's chance to take on that fire. Instead, this Government has arrived with little more than a water pistol. Last week in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I thank everybody for coming. It was great to meet Brian and Helen this morning. We visited Albert and David's farm in Malahide. For us as suckler farmers, it was not our typical farm. The thing with social farming is that you do not have to change anything. It does not have to be a pet farm for all the world. It can be anything. I said to my husband a couple of years ago that he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: Go on Deputy, you should know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: The Deputy should know why the money is being provided.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I will heckle all I want when it comes to farming. The Deputy can try to stop me. There is obviously a disconnect between the witnesses and the Department, and between them and Teagasc. There is €26 million a year going for the same advice the witnesses are basically providing. What are they spending that on? Those are questions that need to be answered. There is also the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: Absolutely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: There is room for everybody.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: The other side of it is that the witnesses are servicing more people than Teagasc. This is what I am saying about how the figures just do not add up. My husband uses Teagasc and gets on great with it. As Mr. Feeney said, it is not that Teagasc is not providing a service because it absolutely is, and I will be clear about that; it is about how exactly the funds are dished out. Teagasc is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I have one question on the training, when it is rolled out to Teagasc. When a new scheme comes on board or anything like that, training obviously has to go with it. I cannot understand why you would not get the training. What has been said with regard to the training? Is it something like, "No, you are a private company, you are not getting it"? What is the answer when it comes to that?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: The Department should be obliged to give-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: That would be too much work for them.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The targets for mammograms in 2023 and 2024 were missed by nearly 80,000. On KCLR recently, I listened to so many women across Carlow and Kilkenny telling their stories. One woman told of her experience after being referred for a scan by her GP because of a lump on her breast. She said months went by without a single word from the hospital. She...

Cost of Disability: Motion [Private Members] (14 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I commend my colleagues on their work on this motion. Most importantly, I pay tribute to the various disability advocacy groups for their invaluable assistance. I worked as a carer for people with disabilities for 18 years in south Kilkenny. The most consistent thing I encountered over those years was that people with a disability want to live as independently as possible. The harsh...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I thank our witnesses for coming in today. I visited the Bia Energy plant in north Dublin and have seen how it works and the idea behind it, albeit on a larger scale. My first question is for Mr. Phelan. He spoke about the cost of these plants but at what point does Europe put its hand in its pocket to support us in reaching our targets? The Irish Government's 50% grant aid is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: The bigger scale.

Tillage Sector: Statements (15 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: Just recently, the IFA and the Irish Grain Growers, among others, were invited in to the agriculture committee to tell us what we already knew, namely, that the tillage industry is on its knees. We heard of the struggles facing the tillage sector. I listened to the Minister’s own colleagues call out for support for farmers struggling in every sense of the word. Members from all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: Is that why there is a smaller amount in the summer than in the winter?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: The animals are obviously in all winter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I would say they were furious but go on anyway.