Results 3,201-3,220 of 4,507 for speaker:Pat Deering
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (26 Jun 2018)
Pat Deering: The more schemes there are, the less money for each.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (26 Jun 2018)
Pat Deering: Yes. I apologise for interrupting Mr. Gleeson.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (26 Jun 2018)
Pat Deering: I would say it would be very popular.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (26 Jun 2018)
Pat Deering: When we were in Paris, we found that the French were very much in favour of having an insurance-type scheme. Would this be a pot of money that would be taken away and might never come back? Insurance is something that one pays but from which one may never benefit. Would it be the same idea with a percentage being taken from the money for pillar 2 measures and being put away for an...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (26 Jun 2018)
Pat Deering: In the next round of questions we have Deputy Marcella Corcoran Kennedy, Deputy Martin Kenny, Senator Tim Lombard and Senator Paul Daly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (26 Jun 2018)
Pat Deering: It is €1.2 billion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (26 Jun 2018)
Pat Deering: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (26 Jun 2018)
Pat Deering: As happened at a different committee five years ago, the genuinely active farmer has been discussed a great deal today. One question that has arisen before and will do so again is that of the productive farmer versus the not-so-productive farmer. It is a broad discussion. If the productive farmer is not incentivised, our very ambitious 2025 targets might not be achieved. What is Mr....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (26 Jun 2018)
Pat Deering: Would that also create more bureaucracy?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (26 Jun 2018)
Pat Deering: On that general point, from Mr. Gleeson's point of view, would substantial change mean reinventing the wheel as regards payment structures and IT? Would it mean basically starting all over again?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (26 Jun 2018)
Pat Deering: There are always teething problems as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (26 Jun 2018)
Pat Deering: Deputy Martin Kenny asked whether topping up at a local level is possible. Can a scheme be topped up at local level? Was that the point the Deputy was making?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (26 Jun 2018)
Pat Deering: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (26 Jun 2018)
Pat Deering: As Mr. Gleeson knows, the committee has made a number of submissions and contributions already. We were in the process of putting together another one. When should we submit another contribution in view of where we are in order to be helpful to the process?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (26 Jun 2018)
Pat Deering: Yes. That will be next week.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (26 Jun 2018)
Pat Deering: We should bear in mind that this is a proposal. If we compare this with the process five years ago, it probably changed much before getting to where it finished.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (26 Jun 2018)
Pat Deering: Deputy Kenny is referring to farmers who would have been set up even before the previous negotiation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (26 Jun 2018)
Pat Deering: They are at it ten years at this stage.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (26 Jun 2018)
Pat Deering: Are there any other questions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (26 Jun 2018)
Pat Deering: As there are no further questions I thank Mr. Gleeson and his officials for coming here at short notice. I thank him for giving us a very detailed insight into how things stand at present. I am sure that we will have many discussions on CAP-----