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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (13 Dec 2016)

Michael D'Arcy: 536. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Wexford will receive a single farm payment in view of the fact there has been no payment to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39437/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (13 Dec 2016)

Michael D'Arcy: 548. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a single farm payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39629/16]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Brexit on Irish Agriculture and Fisheries Sectors: Discussion (13 Dec 2016)

Michael D'Arcy: Mr. Power is welcome to the committee. Is he aware of any analysis or research that has been done on brand loyalty among the British public? There has been a strong cheap food policy in the United Kingdom for a long time but the British are used to the taste of the Irish food products that they have been consuming for whatever number of years. If such research has not been concluded, it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Brexit on Irish Agriculture and Fisheries Sectors: Discussion (13 Dec 2016)

Michael D'Arcy: I apologise for missing the presentations. I was raising a Topical Issue in the Dáil. The starting point in respect of Brexit is holding on to as much shelf space as we can and adding as much value as we can to our product. We must ensure we will lose as little as possible in terms of the potential for damage to our market as it is too difficult to pick up a greater share in these...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Brexit on Irish Agriculture and Fisheries Sectors: Discussion (13 Dec 2016)

Michael D'Arcy: It feels a little like yesterday at this stage.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Property Tax Exemptions (17 Jan 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: 525. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when housing estates will be reassessed for the local property tax unfinished estates exemption scheme, that is, any estates that are unfinished to be added to the list (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1760/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals (17 Jan 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: 649. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an appeal of a domiciliary care application will be processed and decided upon for a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1478/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme (17 Jan 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: 1431. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Wexford will be paid their 2014 beef data payment. [1252/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: Has the Department calculated what proportion of the 30% is agriculturally-impacted? Am I correct that the WTO tariffs are primarily attached to food?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: The agricultural sector will have a major problem if we end up with this scenario.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: Mr. McCarthy is in charge of modelling.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: He has modelled a WTO arrangement with the ESRI but has he modelled a trade war scenario?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: Should he?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: I am talking about a bit of both.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: Can I just qualify this because Mr. Moran mentioned the domestic standing group, DSG, which modelled nice gentle scenarios? Mr. McCarthy has modelled the World Trade Organisation because Theresa May said last week if a bad deal comes there will be no deal but he has not modelled what I described in the Banking Inquiry, as the Domesday scenario. He has done some but not all the modelling.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: The witnesses have not filled me with confidence about the level of preparedness for Brexit. I should not be saying this but surely somebody should have learned the lessons of the past. There were hard lessons learned which showed that the worst case scenario should have been modelled.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: No it was not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: The worst case scenario has not been modelled. A trade war is the worst case scenario.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: Let me finish, I know as a result of the speech by the Prime Minister, Theresa May, last week people are saying the worst case scenario was modelled. There is a worse case than a bad deal which is no arrangement falling on the WTO. The witnesses did not model a trade war, which could happen and could have a really catastrophic impact on the agricultural sector in this country. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: I hear what Mr. McCarthy is saying but does he hear what I am saying? It needs to be done.