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Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2015)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: The Senator contradicts herself-----

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2015)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: The Taoiseach will want to go skiing in January.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2015)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: No.

Seanad: Horizon 2020: Statements (8 Oct 2015)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: Go raibh maith agat, a Leas-Chathaoirligh. I welcome the Minister of State. This important topic concerns investment in research development and job creation strategies within Ireland and across Europe in the years ahead. Horizon 2020 is a very successful mechanism to drive research across Europe. It is a €80 billion fund and I understand Ireland obtained around €35 million...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Organic Farmers Representative Body (8 Oct 2015)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: I thank the delegates for coming and highlighting an important issue. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív wanted to be here, as he is concerned about the problems of the delegates. Like some of the others around the table, I come from the west. While many farmers in the area are not engaged in organic farming, they do farm areas of natural constraint, whether it be natural heritage and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Organic Farmers Representative Body (8 Oct 2015)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: Mr. Monaghan has touched on a very important point. All the commonage land in the west is organic essentially because it is commonly owned and no one spreads fertiliser there. The only thing running through it is the water coming through the rocks, which is organic water nearly as well. The biggest mistake in the CAP reform was not to front-load payments for smaller farmers across the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Organic Farmers Representative Body (8 Oct 2015)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: This is an addition; I am aware of that. However, they are still not getting the average basic payment even taking that into account. We should have a solution or a recommendation we could make to the Minister. The Department has a target of 5%. To keep people farming organically and to incentivise new people to come on board, should the Minister increase the payment for the first 20 or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Organic Farmers Representative Body (8 Oct 2015)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: Approximately 120,000 farmers are getting single farm payments. If 1% of them are in organic farming, that equates to about 1,200 farmers. What is the breakdown of those?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Organic Farmers Representative Body (8 Oct 2015)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: We should look at it. The cost of it may not be huge.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Organic Farmers Representative Body (8 Oct 2015)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: Exactly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme: Organic Farmers Representative Body (8 Oct 2015)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: Can a farmer dose with any product?

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Oct 2015)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: I want to raise another health matter, namely, the situation at Letterkenny General Hospital which is escalating week by week of the huge delay in appointments and waiting lists for urology services at the hospital. This has been escalating since Dr. Kevin Moran resigned from his position at the hospital due to a number of factors. As a result, the waiting lists have escalated out of...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Oct 2015)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: I have listened attentively to the Minister and the words being expressed are the normal reply given in these Houses coming from officialdom within the Department of Health. No assurance is given whatever. We have been told that efforts were made with the locum consultant urologist. I explained in my contribution what happened there. We are being told that those requiring admission or...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Oct 2015)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: The patient is being referred to Galway because Letterkenny could not deal with it.

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Second Stage (14 Oct 2015)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: I welcome the Minister of State to discuss this issue of grave international concern that affects the developing and developed world. It is now being addressed in Ireland. The legislation is long overdue. I agree with Senator Barrett's analysis of the need to implement this much quicker. Kicking the can down the road a further year or two without implementing the legislative changes that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Industry: Discussion (20 Oct 2015)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: Go raibh maith agat, a Chathaoirligh. I welcome the Minister of State and his officials. The Minister of State gave a comprehensive address that touched on many key issues that are of concern to stakeholders within the greyhound industry in Ireland. It is an important industry and I fully agree with the Minister of State's concluding remarks on the industry's potential. It has huge...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Industry: Discussion (20 Oct 2015)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: I am a member of this committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Industry: Discussion (20 Oct 2015)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: Thank you, Chairman. I deal with the facts that are presented to me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Industry: Discussion (20 Oct 2015)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: I have scrutinised those facts and I accept them. What is the Department's view on selling the asset that is the Harold's Cross racetrack? The Minister mentioned the increase in funding, which is bringing it back to 2007-08 levels. Ultimately, every Department has an obligation to provide value for money for the taxpayer for every euro that is allocated through the Exchequer. That is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Racing Industry: Discussion (20 Oct 2015)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: I thank the representatives from federation for taking the time to attend. Their members are the volunteers in the industry and they are the key stakeholders because without breeders one does not have an industry. This is an important issue and one which our committee can play a part in resolving. The concerns expressed by the federation are at the cutting edge of moving the sector...