Results 2,881-2,900 of 4,507 for speaker:Pat Deering
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Pat Deering: The second programme area is the farm payment schemes. Do the members have any questions? I call Deputy Kenny.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Pat Deering: Before I come back to the Minister, I would like to ask him about the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme, TAMS. Does he have a breakdown of the number of farmers who have been paid out of the different tranches? What is the position today on the different tranches? We are almost at the end of March. The Minister might then address the topics members have highlighted.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Pat Deering: Is there a backlog?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Pat Deering: The target was-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Pat Deering: Does the Minister understand?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Pat Deering: Is there an IT issue that is causing a delay in payments for some applicants?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Pat Deering: That is not my understanding. Some people have been approved for payment but because they are outside the payroll or some such reason they cannot be paid. Is that the case?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Pat Deering: There are time constraints. I will ask for a final comment.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Pat Deering: We will move on.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Pat Deering: Can the Minister give us ten minutes?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Pat Deering: We will move on to the next area, policy and strategy. We will try to get through Members' questions as quickly as possible. Are there any questions on this particular area? Does the Minister have any comments?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Pat Deering: The Bord Bia chief executive appeared before the committee quite recently, in the past six weeks or so.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Pat Deering: The Minister did not make reference to low-interest loans in his opening statement. I know it was a fairly general opening statement. What is the strategy or plan for low-interest loans? We have now reached 1 April.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Pat Deering: It is quite late in the year for those loans to become available. From memory, I think the scheme was launched around this time last year, in March, April or earlier. Generally speaking, as the Minister knows, farmers plan their year with regard to fertilisers or whatever they might require that would meet those criteria. It could be argued that the second half of the year is too late.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Pat Deering: We will move on. The next area is the seafood programme.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Pat Deering: A delegation appeared before us and said it would keep us up to date on the progress being made as well.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Pat Deering: The last area is the appropriations-in-aid section. Are there any questions?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Pat Deering: Does anybody else have questions in this area?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Pat Deering: One of your colleagues is still in the Chamber as well.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Pat Deering: I appreciate that. We will conclude shortly.