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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Jackie Cahill: I apologise to the departmental officials. The last session ran over time. It really illustrates the interest people have in organic farming and the role it can play in facing up to the challenges of climate change and reducing the country's emissions from commercial farming. For this second session of the meeting, I welcome the following officials from the Department of Agriculture,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Jackie Cahill: Yes, we can hear Mr. Hayes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Jackie Cahill: Yes. Mr. Hayes may work away.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Jackie Cahill: It sounds better now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Jackie Cahill: I asked a question of Bord Bia and did not get an answer. Do the witnesses see the fact that we have only one purchaser of organic beef in the country as a serious disadvantage? We were told that a premium of only 12% is being paid on organic beef at the moment compared with commercial beef. Do the witnesses think that is a result of only having one buyer of organic beef in the country?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Jackie Cahill: We will move on as a number of members wish to ask questions. I call Deputy Fitzmaurice.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Jackie Cahill: If so many bales of straw are chopped, the price of straw will increase. Especially in a year in which we get a weather event, it will make it very difficult for organic farmers who have to have 50% straw bedding. I will take two members together so we can try to get through all the questions. I call Senators Paul Daly and Boyhan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Jackie Cahill: I call Mr. Hayes to respond to Senator Daly's and Deputy Leddin's questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Jackie Cahill: On behalf of the committee, I thank the officials from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine for engaging with us today on the topic of organic farming. We have had two sessions thus far on this matter. There is a significant amount of work to be done to up the percentage of land we have in organic farming use. As I said in a previous session, it has a significant and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Jun 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 312. To ask the Minister for Health the restrictions that will be in place for the summer months in relation to summer camps for children both indoors and outdoors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28257/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Meals Programme (1 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the school meals and hot school meals programmes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35405/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (1 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 224. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if grants are available for a person to replace roof tiles on their home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35601/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (6 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) can amend their higher education access route, HEAR, application to include their 2019 income rather than the 2020 income that was submitted with the application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36279/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (6 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 566. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to conduct a needs analysis from the forest industry including forest owners for a frost reconstitution scheme following damage to young plantations by this uninsurable event; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35819/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (6 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 567. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the afforestation grant and premium is not payable on areas of natural constraints; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35820/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (6 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 606. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the thorough examinations of each individual animal are conducted by tissue velocity imaging given scans are not accepted as proof of pregnancy by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36401/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Jackie Cahill: Could Mr. Hayes move his microphone a bit? There is a bit of an echo. Moving the microphone might help.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Jackie Cahill: I call Senator Boyhan. As he is not available, I call Deputy Leddin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Jackie Cahill: I would almost presume that the vast majority of stock on commonage, especially where it is populated with sheep, would be all organic. That should be rectified because there could not be anything more organic than animals grazing on commonage.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (7 Jul 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 174. To ask the Minister for Health if persons travelling into the country from states on the mandatory hotel quarantine list will be provided with an exemption to mandatory hotel quarantine in cases in which they are fully vaccinated with a World Health Organisation approved vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30512/21]