Results 3,341-3,360 of 4,507 for speaker:Pat Deering
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for Budget 2019: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2018)
Pat Deering: I presume Deputy Danny Healy-Rae wishes to contribute to the debate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for Budget 2019: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2018)
Pat Deering: I remind the Deputy of time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for Budget 2019: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2018)
Pat Deering: I ask the Deputy to try to keep to budgetary matters. We can deal with forestry again at a later stage in another committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for Budget 2019: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2018)
Pat Deering: I thank Deputy Healy-Rae and I ask Deputy O'Keefe if he wants to make a contribution
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for Budget 2019: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2018)
Pat Deering: I ask the Deputy to confine his contribution to budgetary matters
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for Budget 2019: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2018)
Pat Deering: Witnesses have been asked to make brief contributions on those matters.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for Budget 2019: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2018)
Pat Deering: We have covered every area. How much extra money does the Minister hope to get this year in the budget?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for Budget 2019: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2018)
Pat Deering: That issue is on our agenda and work programme for the coming term as well. We will engage with the Minister on it further.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for Budget 2019: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2018)
Pat Deering: Does the Minister want to comment on the nitrates directive?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for Budget 2019: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2018)
Pat Deering: I thank the Minister and his officials for coming before the committee. We look forward with anticipation to next week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Pat Deering: People transfer from the rental accommodation scheme, RAS, to the HAP scheme. Everybody who was in RAS will now be in HAP.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Pat Deering: This would be important given the number of voluntary housing organisations in receipt of State money. I am open to correction on that. No one knows where they are or what they are doing. It would be a mistake not to investigate those in detail.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Pat Deering: They all have chief executives who are well paid.
- Public Accounts Committee: Teagasc Financial Statements 2017 (4 Oct 2018)
Pat Deering: I welcome Professor Boyle and his colleagues. I have a number of questions but I might not take 20 minutes as I have to go to another meeting. The operating surplus for last year was reduced by almost €3 million year on year. Will Professor Boyle give the committee an indication of why that is the case? The advisory fees have gone up considerably in the same period.
- Public Accounts Committee: Teagasc Financial Statements 2017 (4 Oct 2018)
Pat Deering: Is it a rainy day fund?
- Public Accounts Committee: Teagasc Financial Statements 2017 (4 Oct 2018)
Pat Deering: I am sorry to cut across Professor Boyle but in the event that fund is built up, what is intended to be done to mind it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Teagasc Financial Statements 2017 (4 Oct 2018)
Pat Deering: How are advisory fees determined, considering they have increased from one year to the next?
- Public Accounts Committee: Teagasc Financial Statements 2017 (4 Oct 2018)
Pat Deering: Are any debts attached to the advisory fees? If so, what is the percentage?
- Public Accounts Committee: Teagasc Financial Statements 2017 (4 Oct 2018)
Pat Deering: In the context of the disposal of assets, how much land does Teagasc own?
- Public Accounts Committee: Teagasc Financial Statements 2017 (4 Oct 2018)
Pat Deering: When was this most recently valued?