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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (7 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: Will the action plan for climate change that the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment is to announce in coming months tie in to whatever revised estimates that the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform may have to announce? I am glad to hear the Minister's commitment to the projects that are already there. It serves to re-emphasise a point I would make myself,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: I ask members, witnesses and those in the Public Gallery to make sure their mobile phones are completely turned off as they affect the broadcasting system. I welcome Mr. Ray Doyle from the Irish Co-operative Organisation Society, ICOS, and Mr. Seamus Scallan and Ms Elizabeth Scallan from Wicklow Calf Company Limited. I thank them for coming before the committee to discuss the issue of live...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: I thank Mr. Doyle. I understand Mr. Scallan will make an opening statement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: Are the two lairages in Cherbourg privately owned?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: Do all of Mr. Scallan's exports go to Cherbourg?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: From there they are distributed-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: Live exports are crucial for Ireland. They are essential.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: This is European legislation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: To go back to the Cherbourg issue, there are two lairages there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: Is there a possibility of other space being made available?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: We will seek answers to the questions put by the previous three speakers before coming back to Deputy Cahill. Senator Paul Daly also has a question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: May I ask Mr. Scallan a question? I am sorry for cutting across him. When he talks about people coming together, is he talking about fellow exporters?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: Has Wicklow Calf Company, as a group of exporters in its own right, tried to form a group together?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: Would Mr. Scallan see that as being beneficial?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: How does it work at present? Mr. Scallan has 4,000 calves to go this week.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: His competitor, whoever it may be, has 4,000 calves to go.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: How does Mr. Scallan get onto the ship before Mr. X?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: It probably means the same thing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: A few other questions were asked on the contingency plan for bad weather and the live export of bigger cattle. Deputy Cahill else mentioned bulls. Does Mr. Scallan deal only with calves?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: Is there a market for bulls or bigger livestock?