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Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: Does Mr. Quinn recall any concern or opposition to the policy of freeing up capacity in acute hospitals by sending patients to nursing homes being raised at NPHET meetings?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: Was there unanimity that it was a good policy?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: I thank Mr. Quinn, Ms Dunnion and Ms Cliffe for their many answers to the questions we have asked. I apologise again for starting slightly late. I will now draw the meeting to a close. The committee is adjourned until next Wednesday, 16 September, when we will continue our examination of the impact of Covid-19 on nursing homes.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (15 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: The Ceann Comhairle just informed the Dáil that we will do what the Taoiseach directed us to do. That might have been a slip of the tongue, and if it was I invite the Ceann Comhairle to clarify that. We have a Constitution and we have three branches of Government. One has barely functioned for the past three months, one is in self-isolation, and we are sitting. The role of the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Beef Industry (15 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: 110. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if farmers will be provided with monthly stocking levels in order to calculate the stocking reductions required for the beef exceptional aid measure, BEAM, instead of the practice of providing annual figures from which farmers are unable to calculate the necessary reductions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24343/20]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Beef Industry (15 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: With regard to the previous question, I ask the Minister to take on the cartel that is the meat industry in Ireland, to which the Department is so beholden, if he wishes to do anything to help farmers. With regard to the beef exceptional aid measure farmers have to reduce their stocking densities. They are given a stocking density as an annual figure, which is confusing not just to farmers...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Beef Industry (15 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: I thank the Minister for confirming that the online display will be updated monthly. It will be of great benefit to farmers. I will use the limited time available to me to address this idea of a protected geographical indication, PGI. It is all well and good but all of the schemes that Bord Bia has promoted have worked not to the benefit of producers but solely to the benefit of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Beef Industry (15 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: A PGI is not simply something that empowers-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Beef Industry (15 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: The quality assurance scheme, in theory, is a good idea.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Beef Industry (15 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: I did not realise that. I would not have interrupted so rudely if I had known I had another minute. I think PGIs are an excellent idea but they are about producer groups, not a nationwide development that will be held hostage by processors who completely control the Irish beef industry. I know there have been complaints to the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, and the only...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Afforestation Programme (15 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: I share Deputy Kehoe's concerns about delays but I am also glad to hear that the Minister of State is aware of some of the environmental difficulties. The answer is not to get rid of objections but to process them and deal with them quickly and to hire suitably qualified people in the Department to vet these applications. While forestry is extremely important, the type of forestry we are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Afforestation Programme (15 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: It is shameful that we have an agency in State ownership which does that. I ask the Minister of State to look at it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Afforestation Programme (15 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: There should be but Coillte has its own-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Afforestation Programme (15 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: Perhaps the Minister of State would visit.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (15 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: 373. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when both the Cork and Dublin passport offices will reopen to the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23951/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (15 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: 742. To ask the Minister for Health when an application will be processed for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23795/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (15 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: 868. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures he will take to ensure that there is not a conflict between the requirements contained in recent letters being sent to farmers regarding TB and their requirements pursuant to the beef genomics scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24344/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (15 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: 869. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures he will take to address the backlog in applications for planting permits and felling licences in the forestry section; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24345/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (15 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: 879. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the CAP allocation made available to Ireland in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23531/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (15 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: 880. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of the CAP allocation paid to farmers in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23532/20]