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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Roles, Responsibilities and Key Programmes of Bord Bia: Discussion (23 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: Deputy Cahill wanted to come back.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Roles, Responsibilities and Key Programmes of Bord Bia: Discussion (23 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: Before I ask Ms McCarthy to sum up, I wish to make one point. As she probably knows, we produced a report on the tillage sector just before Christmas. It is a sector that is at the crossroads at the moment. We made a number of recommendations in that regard. Some of the recommendations, Nos. 8, 11 and 16 in particular, refer to the part Bord Bia might play in the promotion of some of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Roles, Responsibilities and Key Programmes of Bord Bia: Discussion (23 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Roles, Responsibilities and Key Programmes of Bord Bia: Discussion (23 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: No problem. I apologise for the interruption and ask the witnesses to please proceed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Roles, Responsibilities and Key Programmes of Bord Bia: Discussion (23 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: Deputy Cahill's-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Roles, Responsibilities and Key Programmes of Bord Bia: Discussion (23 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: I am sorry to cut across, but it is probably a question for the factories also.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Roles, Responsibilities and Key Programmes of Bord Bia: Discussion (23 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: That is really what we are asking, that Bord Bia would be part of a conversation going forward, which could be useful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Roles, Responsibilities and Key Programmes of Bord Bia: Discussion (23 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: That covers all of our questions. I thank the witnesses for a detailed conversation and discussion over the past hour and a half or so. I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee to discuss this very important matter. As this part of the business is concluded, we will suspend for a few minutes before resuming in private session to deal with the matter we were discussing with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: Apologies have been received from Deputy Martin Kenny.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: Before we begin, I remind members, witnesses and those in the Public Gallery to make sure their mobile phones are completely switched off. We are here today to discuss the special reports of the European Court of Auditors on EU support to young farmers and on the rural affairs programmes. I welcome from the European Court of Auditors, Mr. Kevin Cardiff, Mr. Janusz Wojciechowski, members,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: We will take questions on that. I call Deputy Carey.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: Will the Deputy, please, stick to the issue? We can come back to the issue of young farmers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: What about the Leader programme and the detail within various countries?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: Does Mr. Cardiff mean from the bottom-up, rather than from the top-down?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: It is therefore basically the farm programmes that the ECA has dealt with so far.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: The next questioner is Senator Mac Lochlainn.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: I will be helpful to the Senator. We will have Commissioner Hogan before the committee on 1 March. The Senator's question would perhaps be appropriate for the Commissioner to answer when he comes here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: Senator Paul Daly is next, followed by Senator Grace O'Sullivan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: I call Mr. Wojciechowski.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Reports on EU Support for Young Farmers and the Rural Affairs Programme: European Court of Auditors (24 Jan 2018)

Pat Deering: There is a phone interfering somewhere.