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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: What does Mr. Scallan think we should do about bad weather contingency plans?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: Is Mr. Scallan referring to lairage in Ireland?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: I am going back to the association about which Mr. Scallan has talked and which I have mentioned. Is it not incumbent on exporters to come together to form such a group? The representatives of that organisation, including Mr. Scallan or whoever else it might be, could deal directly with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: Mr. Scallan referred to getting other ships. We depend on commercial enterprises for these ventures and the owners of ships will only be interested if they make money.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: It has to be economically viable for them. Is it economical for them to make more ships available?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: Do they have to be assessed to get a licence?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: Would it be true to say they might not be prepared to go down that road?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: The ships transport other stuff such as cars and other things around the world.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: What else would such ships be used for?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: It is up to the owner of ships to get a licence.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: The key point in this discussion is that we do not want to say anything here that will have a negative effect on live exports either. That is a crucial point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: I am not being critical.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: I am sorry for cutting across Mr. Scallan. I will bring him back in later. I call Mr. Doyle.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: I call Deputy Cahill.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: Everyone is on the same page on that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: We have a serious problem in this country without live exports. It is a delicate subject, as the witnesses have stated. They are dealing with it regularly. We have no problem complying with regulations but a valid point has been made by Mr. Doyle about what could be coming down the line and we must be aware of that. It is crucial that we can develop further markets. We have started a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: We saw today the importance of exports to the industry. Lairages in Cherbourg was another crucial point. We also saw the importance of an umbrella organisation so that these exporters can have a stronger voice when it comes to negotiation, whatever the case may be. They are three crucial points to sum up our conversation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: That is very true. Those four points sum up our conversation. The importance of the industry cannot be underestimated if we are to get as many as our small stock calves as possible out of the country to help the beef industry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: It is something we can investigate. This has been a very interesting and informative discussion. We will come back to this issue over the next number of weeks and the witnesses are more than welcome to tune in over the next while. I thank Mr. Scallan, Ms Scallan and Mr. Doyle for coming before us today and making a very important case for the industry.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (13 Feb 2019)
Pat Deering: 145. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding persons with type 1 diabetes over 21 years of age being granted a FreeStyle Libre monitoring machine; when persons with type 1 diabetics over 21 years of age will be allowed the same choices as those under 21 years of age (details supplied); and the price difference between the use of FreeStyle Libre and other devices for which blood...