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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: Thank you. I invite Professor Frank O'Mara of Teagasc to make his presentation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: I thank Professor O'Mara. I invite Mr. Kent to make his opening statement on behalf of the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers Association, ICSA.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: I thank all witnesses for their very concise presentations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: Deputy Healy-Rae can tell his story later. Does he have questions for the witnesses?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: I have a couple of questions for the representatives of Teagasc. I attended a trial farm in my part of the country, and I am sure Dr. O.Mara knows where I am talking about. Teagasc has done a considerable amount of work, in conjunction with others, to develop a suckler-type calf from a dairy cow. Can the witnesses give us more information about that? There is a lot of discussion about the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: Are we capable of producing that extra 10% ourselves?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: I thank Ms Westbrook. Does Dr. O'Mara wish to respond?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: I call on Mr. Mulvihill to conclude. Sorry, Mr. McHugh wishes to contribute.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: There is considerable food for thought there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: We do not get credit for it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: At the end of the day, the accounting system is what counts, is it not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: On the same issue, I call Mr. Kent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: I am sorry for cutting across the witness.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: I thank Mr. Mulvihill. This has been an interesting discussion. This has been our third public meeting on the topic of climate change. All of the stakeholders will be involved. We will produce a report in the next few weeks and the delegates will be more than welcome to come back when we launch it. I thank them for coming before the committee and apologise for running so late.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Status (8 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: 548. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) can expect a decision regarding their survivor's pension appeal. [10888/18]

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes (8 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: I welcome the witnesses and compliment them on the work in the past week. I want to focus on the local property tax and how it is distributed to local government. I welcome Mr. John McCarthy's repeated reference to fairness and that a review of the distribution process would proceed. Will he describe how the model for the distribution of local property tax was developed in the first place?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes (8 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: Yes. How was the model for the distribution of funding developed?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes (8 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: I am not sure Mr. McCarthy is getting my question. I want to know exactly what model is used to distribute the money. I will give an example. I am from Carlow. The argument is made time and time again that Carlow is treated very unfairly. Carlow has a budget of €49 million and a population of 56,000. By comparison, Monaghan has a population of approximately 57,000 or 58,000....

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes (8 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: However, it is obvious that they are worse off.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes (8 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: Mr. McCarthy also mentioned earlier that his Department is reviewing the system of distribution. In order to make it fairer and more transparent, which I think everybody has mentioned previously, what models are being considered? The officials are probably limited as to what they can tell us but I am sure indicate the models that are being investigated.